Re: Question on Teacher Salaries

public education benefits the wealthy and teachers are part of that rigged system.

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[dannj62]

you are misinformed mech and elect engineers make the same as a teachers (if lucky) most are out of work they never had a pension, pay a large amount for thier benefits. I am sorry the bad economy is hitting you guys it hit the rest of us 5years ago. Be lucky you have a job. You should thank each taxpayer persoinally for your benefits and pension. I am paying per year $5,000 year for health covearge and no pension and I could be fired. I am lucky I work for large company.

[peacelf]

@dannj62 I'm talking about average teacher salaries, including my own, compared to engineers. NJ is an exception, not the rule on teacher salaries. A PhD teacher in my district will never make the salaries you allege NJ teachers make. But, again, salaries are subsequent to the work that teachers are expected to do, yet receive little appreciation for that work. Are there bad teachers? Yes! Teaching is not business. I can't reject bad students, like a business can reject bad raw materials.

[peacelf]

Cont. as for engineers having to pay insurance, etc. Organize, fight for those benefits, just like teachers did. It's your right as an employee. Of course, you can't because corporations have too much power, today. You'd be shit canned and another schmuck would gladly take your place, because workers lost all their power and rights since economic globalization was won by the rich and powerful. We americans don't realize that we have the same power as the Egyptian people, but we will, soon.

[dannj62]

dont believe the liues teachers in NJ make $70,000 to $125,000 per year, with full benefits, and a pension. No body except govt workers have pensions! We all have career problems why is this profesions problems our problems.

[peacelf]

@dannj62 So, it's ok for a mechanical or electrical engineer with a four year degree to make twice that $, but not ok for a teacher to make NJ salaries? I started out teaching made $23k yr. I was 40k in debt from student loans! It's like the comedian Gallagher said, we pay a guy $50/hr to work on our pipes, but we pay a sitter $1/hr. to watch our kids. Or worse, we pay athletes and actors huge sums of money because...what? they're famous? It's a matter of priorities.

[DrKerrPhD]

Teachers start becoming less valuable after about five years; therefore, young teachers should earn the top salaries, then start dcreasing their pay after the fifth year until the 15th year when they should be phased out! You read it here first !

[peacelf]

@DrKerrPhD, is that a self-given title? I see why you'd feel that way, but I think we blame teachers for doing something they were taught to do, told to do, indeed, expected to do. empower teachers to think critically, and you'll see a huge change instruction and learning.

peace

[crazyhorse1369]

Because he gave a damn . He worked endlessly to make sure we understood the work . He didn't send us down to the resource room . Resource room just gives you the answers and thats all. Its too bad i and many others at that school didn't have more teachers like him .

[crazyhorse1369]

@p7cfly11 I myself was a tx hs student . I was remedial . I had this writing class and the teacher gave us the same work he gave the pre ap students, it was hard but i liked that the teacher gave us the same amount of work . I didn't like that we didn't get the college credits the ap students got when we did the same work . That teacher told us the reason he didn't make our work easier . He said in the real world , thier are no modifacations. Thats the only teacher in h.s i truly respected.