MOCO parents - how much are we willing to put up with??

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Anonymous wrote:The entire reason why I pay my taxes is to have a good school system. I wouldn't mind a teacher making 200K if he/she is providing an excellent, engaging, conceptual learning experience for my child. I would say that is money very well spent indeed.

And where would you find money to hire enough teachers if you are paying some of them 200K? I think teachers should be well compensated also, but 200K for a 10 month job would be an annual salary of $240K. That's really over the top, PP.

PP said 200K not 240K. Believe it or not you can spread a 10 month salary over 12 months.

You're incredibly dense.

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And where would you find money to hire enough teachers if you are paying some of them 200K?


Is education valuable to you or not? Do you want value for free?

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Are you really not capable of understanding the reference to children that they are "failing?" This doesn't mean literally failing the child as in holding the child back - it means failing to really educate the children! That was not so difficult to understand.

Perhaps your children are failing but mine are doing exceptional. Maybe your kids are just dumb.

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In addition, yes, we do judge doctors based on outcome. If you find that your surgeon has 20 open malpractice complaints against him/her, you would likely not choose that surgeon.

Malpractice??? So now you are saying teachers are engaging in malpractice? What if a doctor had a rash of strep throat patients and he prescribed EXACTLY the right antibiotic in each case, but 40% of his patients went home and threw them out. Would we accuse him of malpractice because his patients got worse??? Teachers see students for 50 minutes a day and send them home to their parents to do their work, but at least 40% claim the dog ate it. Who's responsible of malpractice???

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Moreover, I do not think you read carefully the part that says developING world. Or, if you did, I hope you are teaching geography.

Indeed, Kenya, Tanzania, Haiti, Yemen are just bastions of exceptionally educated teachers. Let's ship them all here to teach our children for 50 cents an hour.

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Anonymous wrote: Moreover, I do not think you read carefully the part that says developING world. Or, if you did, I hope you are teaching geography.

Indeed, Kenya, Tanzania, Haiti, Yemen are just bastions of exceptionally educated teachers. Let's ship them all here to teach our children for 50 cents an hour.

When you name countries like that at random it makes even more clear that are clueless.

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Anonymous wrote:20:09 - I agree completely. What is MoCo: lala land? Newsflash: the state of Maryland employees have had *four* years of furloughs. Where is the leadership in the school system?

Example: The highest paid employees - those earning more than $100,000 a year (and probably don't provide direct instruction) could lose two weeks' pay. Lowest-paid workers would be docked for three days. Salaries would return to current levels the next year.

Or "reduction in service days" DURING THE SUMMER WHEN KIDS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL.

There are no service days in the summer for teachers. Teachers have nine-month contracts, are paid for their work during the school year, and receive no pay for the summer months.

They must have 10-month contracts. School ends on June 16th. Teachers stay until around June 21st. They start back on August 22 or 23rd. If they only have a 9-month contract they are getting ripped off.

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Anonymous wrote:83 % of the money goes to salaries and benefits of the employees- what do you think needs to happen?

go ahead say it, they need to scale those back- but the teachers, you know the ones that are in it for the kids refuse to do so.

Do you know what the average teacher makes in Montgomery County? $76,483
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XQdBajgEN60/S3VirOCMSnI/AAAAAAAACwc/hGPFshvQGIc/s1600-h/Teacher+Salaries+FY+2010.jpg

What is going to give?

Wow, PP! a whopping $76K! Lord help us all when those greedy teachers start taking over the McMansions in Bethesda!

funny you say that, I live there and I can tell you there are no les than 10 teachers living in my neighborhood.

I bet they are not married to teachers.

Some are, you know you could buy a house in Bethesda before the prices increased.

Sure, back in the late 80's early 90's.

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Will you people stop bickering among professions? Both teachers and doctors are important. So are lawyers, police, trashpeople, construction workers, farmers, etc. Just read the Richard Scary book on the jobs grownups do can do and you see that everyone contributes. Who knows how much every job should be paid. Let's just assume it works out. Let's be honest, also. Some teachers are better than others, just like all the other professions. Let's be honest again, teachers don't make huge sums of money, they are not overly greedy by the standards of others jobs, and most of them work hard. I am not a teacher, but I respect them and I don't think their salaries are welfare for glorified babysitting.

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I don't think their salaries are welfare for glorified babysitting.

Obviously, you are in the minority here.

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Under $50,000 2.7% 5
$50,000-$100,000 19.1% 36
$100,000-$200,000 43.1% 81
$200,000-$500,000 28.2% 53
More than $500,000 6.9% 13

70% of people on DCUM make over 100K but insist that teachers shouldn't make what they make. Interesting indeed.

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Fairfax county is throwing the bums on their school boards out. We should do the same!

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax county is throwing the bums on their school boards out. We should do the same!

If teachers ran the system, you'd definitely see improvement. But when you hand over the decision-making to those who are out of touch or have little to no experience in the field, that's when students - and teachers - suffer from some bad choices.

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That's b/c everyone is an "expert" in teaching b/c everyone's been through school. So there's little respect for what we do.

Priorities need to flip. A CEO outsourcing to China where employees are making $.50 an hour working in an unsafe environment should be at the bottom. Guaranteed if you put education at the top, we'd have more humanitarian practices across the board.

pipe dream

Anonymous wrote:Under $50,000 2.7% 5
$50,000-$100,000 19.1% 36
$100,000-$200,000 43.1% 81
$200,000-$500,000 28.2% 53
More than $500,000 6.9% 13

70% of people on DCUM make over 100K but insist that teachers shouldn't make what they make. Interesting indeed.

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funny you say that, I live there and I can tell you there are no les than 10 teachers living in my neighborhood.

And what do their husbands do for a living?