Teachers don’t work year round. So that 60k salary if adjusted to days worked + pension benefits is equivalent to six figures in the private sector.
Asjusted to inflation, 100k today are worth about as much as 60k two years ago.
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#22Teachers don’t work year round. So that 60k salary if adjusted to days worked + pension benefits is equivalent to six figures in the private sector.
Why shouldn't teachers make six figures? I mean after all, half the people here just put buttons on websites and get paid six figures.
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#23Instead, allow for a voucher system where parents can apply the equivalent amount of money the public school spends and apply it towards private schools. Make it easy for teachers to start their own school or coop to compete for vouchers. Definitely a pipe dream but it might work.
It might work in doing what exactly?
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#24I'm in NJ where we value public education, for the most part. According to National Center for Education Statistics our average teacher pay was $77,489 in 2022. This is excluding benefits/pension.
Well worth it.
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#25Instead, allow for a voucher system where parents can apply the equivalent amount of money the public school spends and apply it towards private schools. Make it easy for teachers to start their own school or coop to compete for vouchers. Definitely a pipe dream but it might work.
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#26Teachers don’t work year round. So that 60k salary if adjusted to days worked + pension benefits is equivalent to six figures in the private sector.
That's a tiring argument that's reiterated every time teacher pay is involved. Most teachers also don't get the luxury of working 9-5, they have to do additional planning and grading outside of hours. Also, if you want to compare with the private sector, there are teachers in the private sector who make more.
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#27What a world would we live in if Bernie Sanders won those 2016 elections...
Re: Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers
#28Instead, allow for a voucher system where parents can apply the equivalent amount of money the public school spends and apply it towards private schools. Make it easy for teachers to start their own school or coop to compete for vouchers. Definitely a pipe dream but it might work.
What a dystopian education system that would be.
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#29Teachers don’t work year round. So that 60k salary if adjusted to days worked + pension benefits is equivalent to six figures in the private sector.
Good? If you want maths taught by actual maths grads, then you will need six figure salaries to attract them.
No one needs a math grad to teach 3rd grade math. That would be a huge waste of money and expertise.
Re: Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers
#30Teachers don’t work year round. So that 60k salary if adjusted to days worked + pension benefits is equivalent to six figures in the private sector.
Not American, so a couple of questions: 1. Is it normal for teachers to have alternative income for the days they don't work? 2. Sounds like the term "six figures" has a special meaning other than just being in the range 100.000 - 999.999? It appears like there is a connotation that it is a special things to achieve in your life. 3. Taking inflation into account, shouldn't it soon be normal to earn that amount (when…
> 2. Sounds like the term "six figures" has a special meaning?
Six figures simply refers to a salary with six digits (i.e. in excess of $100,000). This is nearly double the median income so "six figures" is often just used to mean "a lot of money."