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Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers

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Re: Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers

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Post by Loughla »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #5

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They have pretty well given up on eliminating the DoE. Instead, they're just gutting education and getting the money through "school choice" like vouchers and public funding for religious/private schools.

Why kill the beast when you can milk it?

Re: Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers

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Post by SCdF »

bushbaba wrote: post #2

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.

I am not american, but both my parents were teachers, and they absolutely worked all year round, and longer than 8hr days. There are such a things as lesson plans, and marking homework, and being asked to do extra work such as editing the school paper, or coaching basketball, or whatever.

This idea that teachers work the same hours they are physically inside school and nothing else is laughable.

Though regardless, entry level software developers in the united states get six figures out of the gate, so it seems remarkably reasonable.

Re: Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers

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Post by zwirbl »

bushbaba wrote: post #2

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.

Teachers do create massive amounts of value for the society at large, so that would likely be very appropriate

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Post by sjm »

PaulHoule wrote: post #4
asddubs wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

teachers still have to exist in society all year round though

Then they get a summer job. I remember an elementary school teacher from when I was a kid who was a park ranger in the summer.

Do you realize how dystopian that is?

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Post by mynameisvlad »

madsbuch wrote: post #6
bushbaba wrote: post #2

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.

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…

Answering #2, six figures refers to the number of digits in your paycheck, so 100k+

Lmao the downvotes are hilarious. I literally am explaining something the parent comment wanted to know. They didn't even have the bit about "100.000-999.999" when this comment was posted, as evidenced by another person quoting the original comment and the commenter saying they clarified the question.

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Post by patchorang »

madsbuch wrote: post #6
bushbaba wrote: post #2

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.

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…

1. Yes a lot of teacher have different summer jobs. 2. Means at least 100,000 3. Yes, it should be normal.
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