What is the dress code for school employees?

[Anonymous]

If you agree to pay us as much as we're worth, then I'll wear whatever you want. Until then, I'm going to dress to be comfortable, flip flops and all -- overworked, underpaid teacher

[Anonymous]

You are neither overworked or underpaid. Many people would love to work your hours, get the summers off and not contribute to health benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are neither overworked or underpaid. Many people would love to work your hours, get the summers off and not contribute to health benefits.

o gawd. here we go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are neither overworked or underpaid. Many people would love to work your hours, get the summers off and not contribute to health benefits.

Yes, SO many people would love it but yet, they don't go into teaching. Obviously you have never been a teacher. No teacher I know has summers off. They need the income. The hours we get paid for contractually are never the hours we actually work. A few years ago, the teachers in my union went on a strike and only worked the hours we are contracted to work. Very little got graded, field trips didn't get planned, lessons were taught from canned lesson books, etc. I regularly work 3 hrs per day (including weekends) more than what I am contracted to work. Teachers are very educated people too. Every teacher I know has a Master's and many of them have already earned their second Master's or equivalent. I am a few credits away from my 2nd Master's. We get reimbursed about half of the tuition for this. We are underpaid for the level of education we have attained. Teachers are not glorified babysitters and hopefully some day our country will decide that without good teachers, there is no future.

[Anonymous]

Oh please. I'm a teacher and I think we can ALL agree that most teachers don't have scads of $$$$ to spend on clothes. Most elementary school teachers (at least) aren't clothes horses because we have other things on our mind (namely your children) than being fashionable, and also we need to be comfortable and able to move. Yes, I wear jeans and flip flops but they are clean and neat.

And not overworked? My work doesn't end when I leave the classroom. I take work home every night, and use Sundays to plan and enter observation notes into the computer. You're misinformed if you don't believe teachers aren't overworked.

[Anonymous]

Make that "if you believe teachers aren't overworked." Time to go to bed so I can be fresh for tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

First, most professionals in their jobs don't wear jeans and flip flops. If you want to be treated as a professional, then dress like one. Second, most people I know in the work force today work more than 8 hours a day and work on weekends. We are not contracted to work and we don't get paid overtime. Everyone is working longer hours to keep roofs over our families heads and pay the taxes that keep going up. Over 50% of MC's budget is the school and most of that budget is salaries. Where do you think that money is coming from? It is from hard working families. So when you complain that you have to work extra hours on the weekend what do you think everyone else is doing?

[Anonymous]

None of my friends who have "regular jobs" work past their paid hours. They work for the gov't.

[Anonymous]

Believe or not there are other jobs in this area besides govt jobs.

[Anonymous]

Most of the people in this are who work overtime without being paid are on salaries that are 3-5 times that of an average teacher. Teachers who make $30,000 are at the top end of their pay scale and put in overtime for free; lawyers who make $100,000 are on the lower end of their pay scale in this area and put in overtime for free. It's not the same at all.

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Md_-counties-race-to-keep-pace-with-Montgomery-teacher-salaries-8701246-80355712.html

The lowest starting teacher salary was $43,452 in Anne Arundel county. The highest was in mc $46,410. not bad for someone out of college and 22 years old. The article also states that with a Master's a teacher in MC can earn $100,000. This includes health benefits, and a pension. Many jobs require paying towards health benefits (anywhere from $150-250 a month) and no pension but a 401 k. Partnerships require the partners to pay for all of their health care ($12,000 to $14,000) Yes partners may make a lot more money but at the cost of 70-80 hour work weeks (or more) for the entire year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Md_-counties-race-to-keep-pace-with-Montgomery-teacher-salaries-8701246-80355712.html

The lowest starting teacher salary was $43,452 in Anne Arundel county. The highest was in mc $46,410. not bad for someone out of college and 22 years old. The article also states that with a Master's a teacher in MC can earn $100,000. This includes health benefits, and a pension. Many jobs require paying towards health benefits (anywhere from $150-250 a month) and no pension but a 401 k. Partnerships require the partners to pay for all of their health care ($12,000 to $14,000) Yes partners may make a lot more money but at the cost of 70-80 hour work weeks (or more) for the entire year.

Well...not really. Going by this year's salary schedule, in order to make $100K you either have to be a teacher who has been teaching for 25 years AND have a masters degree + 30 additional credits OR have 19-25 years teaching experience AND have a masters degree + 60 additional credits. Teachers don't make the big bucks. Masters degrees are required withing 10 years of beginning your teaching career. Tuition can be reimbursed at 50% of UM tuition rate. Many teachers obtain their masters degree from Johns Hopkins Univ which costs about $1600 per 3 credit class. Once you complete the class with an "A" or a "B" and submit the necessary paperwork, you are then reimbursed a percentage of tuition rate. Let's not forgot how much teachers pay out of pocket for countless supplies used in the classroom. Everything adds up. I'm moving classrooms yet again (about a third of our teachers are moving classrooms), but there are no boxes provided for us to pack up our rooms. On average, a teacher will need somewhere around 30 boxes plus plastic containers for the materials we don't want the roaches to get into....good times
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/ersc/docs/Salary_Schedules_FY10_MCEA.pdf

[Anonymous]

And you only get that salary IF you can even find a teaching job. Fat chance these days when the state of MD is being overrun by teachers from other states who have been laid off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are neither overworked or underpaid. Many people would love to work your hours, get the summers off and not contribute to health benefits.

Who doesn't contribute to health benefits, dumb ass? It comes out of our paychecks.

You obviously didn't go beyond 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

I don't know where these teachers work, who don't dress professionally? But at my child's DCPS school they are fashionistas and GQ's front page covers. Always immaculate and well-groomed...they are wearing the latest and trendy clothing, driving the finest of cars and all live quite comfortable on their salaries. Matter of fact all of the personnel in the school is quite dapper. I have not come across anyone who inappropriately dressed...even the custodial staff was all dressed in similar style uniforms.