Two of my kids’ 3 teachers won’t be in tomorrow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. A first year teacher who works only their contract hours in aps is paid $63 an hour. That’s the equivalent of a gs 14 step 3. It’s not bc it’s a ‘higher calling’ to teach its bc you are highly paid and expected to work more than 7 hours a day. (Your ‘contract’ day includes a lunch break. That’s unpaid just like the rest of the world.). In comparing teacher salaries to other positions you have to look at days and hours worked.

This is not true. A first year teacher with a bachelors in APS makes 48,228 according to the scale. That’s for 200 days of work, 7.5 hours a day.

48,228/200= $241 a day.

241/7.5= $32 an hour.


https://www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pay-Plan-20-21.pdf

Nope. Count the days on the calendar. It’s 188 contract days. It’s 7 hours a day. You get 35 minutes for lunch. I only deducted 30 bc it made the math easier

188x7= 1316 hours
48228/1316=63.40 an hour

The document literally says below the teacher scale it is 200 days. And they are paid for 7.5 hours each of those days. It says this *on the chart* SCHOOL calendar is 188 days but TEACHERS work EXTRA days than just teaching days for in service, workdays, planning, PD that are built in. It is a 7.5

[Anonymous]

What is the name for what the non-teacher is doing here, in explaining to the teacher how many hours they work per day and how many days per year? Like mansplaining but for this situation. Arlsplaining? DCUMsplaining? NArlsplaining? (I mean, surely it's someone from north arlington doing this amirite?)

Dorksplaining?

APSplaining?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the name for what the non-teacher is doing here, in explaining to the teacher how many hours they work per day and how many days per year? Like mansplaining but for this situation. Arlsplaining? DCUMsplaining? NArlsplaining? (I mean, surely it's someone from north arlington doing this amirite?)

Dorksplaining?

APSplaining?

All so she can pretend teachers make twice what they really do. Nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the name for what the non-teacher is doing here, in explaining to the teacher how many hours they work per day and how many days per year? Like mansplaining but for this situation. Arlsplaining? DCUMsplaining? NArlsplaining? (I mean, surely it's someone from north arlington doing this amirite?)

Dorksplaining?

APSplaining?

LOL- I’m not even complaining about the pay. I love my job, and felt grateful I had one when so many others lost theirs during this pandemic. What pisses me off, though, is when people say we weren’t (or aren’t) working hard enough. There may be one or two slackers here and there, but in general, teachers as a whole have worked their asses off, especially this year.

[Anonymous]

That woman claims a first year APS teacher, who actually makes 48,228, makes equivalent to a GS 14 step 3. The salary for that is 100,167. She’s an idiot who can’t math OR read simple tables with numbers.

https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2021/GS-14

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That woman claims a first year APS teacher, who actually makes 48,228, makes equivalent to a GS 14 step 3. The salary for that is 100,167. She’s an idiot who can’t math OR read simple tables with numbers.

https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2021/GS-14

Making things up? Not on my DCUM! This is so unlike this place!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That woman claims a first year APS teacher, who actually makes 48,228, makes equivalent to a GS 14 step 3. The salary for that is 100,167. She’s an idiot who can’t math OR read simple tables with numbers.

https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2021/GS-14

you are not making an apples to apples comparison. You have to recognize that teachers works a shorter 'contract' day than most professions and work substantially less days a year. This is in response to the poster who was asserting that it was totally reasonable for a teacher to take the day off after spring break, and that a teacher should never be expected to work a minute past their contract hours. If you approach teaching as a I only work my contract hours profession it is extremely well paid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That woman claims a first year APS teacher, who actually makes 48,228, makes equivalent to a GS 14 step 3. The salary for that is 100,167. She’s an idiot who can’t math OR read simple tables with numbers.

https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2021/GS-14

you are not making an apples to apples comparison. You have to recognize that teachers works a shorter 'contract' day than most professions and work substantially less days a year. This is in response to the poster who was asserting that it was totally reasonable for a teacher to take the day off after spring break, and that a teacher should never be expected to work a minute past their contract hours. If you approach teaching as a I only work my contract hours profession it is extremely well paid.

No it isn’t. 48k for 10 months of work is not well paid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the name for what the non-teacher is doing here, in explaining to the teacher how many hours they work per day and how many days per year? Like mansplaining but for this situation. Arlsplaining? DCUMsplaining? NArlsplaining? (I mean, surely it's someone from north arlington doing this amirite?)

Dorksplaining?

APSplaining?

Momsplaining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That woman claims a first year APS teacher, who actually makes 48,228, makes equivalent to a GS 14 step 3. The salary for that is 100,167. She’s an idiot who can’t math OR read simple tables with numbers.

https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2021/GS-14

you are not making an apples to apples comparison. You have to recognize that teachers works a shorter 'contract' day than most professions and work substantially less days a year. This is in response to the poster who was asserting that it was totally reasonable for a teacher to take the day off after spring break, and that a teacher should never be expected to work a minute past their contract hours. If you approach teaching as a I only work my contract hours profession it is extremely well paid.

No it isn’t. 48k for 10 months of work is not well paid.

And basically no teachers work contract hours only. Just because someone on here says it happens doesn’t mean it’s a widespread practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

Tell that to my kid who is still watching pre recorded videos of their classes on in person day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

Tell that to my kid who is still watching pre recorded videos of their classes on in person day.

Who made the videos? Posted them? Will assess the work from them? Teachers. If admin told them to do it that way, it doesn’t mean they refused to work. It means they literally did work, to the specifications of their employer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

Tell that to my kid who is still watching pre recorded videos of their classes on in person day.

Look, if that’s happening at all, I think it’s very rare. Teachers get three personal days a year. A few years ago, one of my kids’ teachers took a whole week off for a wedding, and that kind of pissed me off, but that’s the only abuse of leave I’ve ever seen, as a teacher and a parent. I also let it go- because it’s just not that big of a deal. My kid is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

Tell that to my kid who is still watching pre recorded videos of their classes on in person day.

Who made the videos? Posted them? Will assess the work from them? Teachers. If admin told them to do it that way, it doesn’t mean they refused to work. It means they literally did work, to the specifications of their employer.

How often did it happen? Maybe the video was really good, and an instructional choice? If you want to find fault, you will.