Cash for teacher appreciation week
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Anonymous
How much do you make? |
Anonymous
OK I'll make sure to give you a gift card instead of cash |
Anonymous
+1 teacher as well |
Anonymous
Yes |
Anonymous
21k |
Anonymous
The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland. Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year. |
Anonymous
If it such a great gig, why aren’t more people teaching? Why have our student teachers gone from 12-15 per year to 1-2 per year? |
Anonymous
Because of programs like iteach which don’t require unpaid student teaching? |
Anonymous
Most of them quit after the first year. Some quit before then. Terrible programs. |
Anonymous
I’m not in Maryland ding dong |
Anonymous
National teaching salary average is 74k. |
Anonymous
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My mom was a teacher and I think people who think cash or gift cardsa are insulting are HILARIOUS. Cash, gift cards, personalized notes -- all appreciated.
Here's what a teacher doesn't particularly want: 1. Another coffee cup/water bottle 2. Candy 3. Baked goods from a kitchen they've never set foot inside Even still, they will say thank you and give your kid a hug. But cash or a gift card is perfectly fine. |
Anonymous
Yeesh. Tell your husband to pick up a gift card on the way home from work and put down the cross. I'm a room parent and I'm not doing any of that. I'm having my daughter make a card from construction paper and paper clipping a Starbucks gift card inside. Our teacher will appreciate both and my emotional labor meter is on NBD. |
Anonymous
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I make less than my kid's teachers. We are in DCPS and teachers are well compensated here compared to other places. Are they well compensated compared to doctors and lawyers? No, but neither am I (I'm a librarian, spouse is in public service similar to teaching). Yes, this area is expensive. Guess what, it's expensive for me, too.
I actually still gave teachers gift cards the first few years because it felt compulsory. But I stopped, because it makes no sense. I write heartfelt thank you notes to teachers. That is gratitude. I also pay my taxes, which I think entitled my kid to public school without an obligation to "tip" teachers. If this offends you, me don't care. |
Anonymous
Teachers in the DC area make well above the national average. And importantly, not all public school kids have parents who out-earn teachers. In fact I would bet less than half of all public school families have incomes that exceed what a dual-teacher family would earn. Many teachers are also married to high earners, so even where a parent out earns their child's teacher by 20k or something, their comparative HHIs put the teacher well ahead. Teachers where I live also receive benefits I don't, like assistance with home purchases and transportation stipends. If you you want to quietly expect the wealthy families at your school to give you cash gifts out of if some grievance about your paycheck, whatever. But the expectation that all families do it, or the belief that families who don't give money are cheap or selfish, is the height if entitlement. You already get paid! Why am I giving you the money I earned as a "thank you." I don't owe you anything extra and there is zero reason that parents who make similar or less than teachers should transfer more money to teachers. |