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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's really bad across the board.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/03/school-teacher-shortage/[/quote]

They need to increase teacher pay drastically. Like at least +$20k a year across the board on all pay scales. [/quote]

Nonsense. Pay should increase substantially for the positions where it is hard to find qualified instructors (self-contained special ed, math, science, etc.). Pay should go up until qualified professionals are willing to take the jobs.   [/quote]

I agree. I do think classroom teachers and SPED should get paid more than elective teachers. There should be three teacher scales.

Teacher 1(PE, Music, Art, Librarian, Resource Teachers, Elective)

Teacher 2(Classroom Teachers in ES and High School)

Teacher 3 (SPED and ESOL)

If this is not an option teachers should get paid more by having larger classes. The base salary is for 24 kids. Any additional child should warrant more money. It isn’t fair that some teachers have 18 kids and others have 30 and get paid the same.

They could also do bonuses for every 5 year of service.

Schools need to start thinking outside the box to RETAIN the teachers they have and the community needs to also help by paying more in taxes or implementing a meals tax to help offset the cost. [/quote]

I get where you’re going with this but what about the aides who have to spend all their time subbing because school is short staffed or teachers are out with covid. Don’t they deserve more for pulling all that extra weight?  If school keep leaning hard on low paid aides they will break, and quit. [/quote]

And the resource teachers still have to get bachelors + teaching licenses + continuing ed credits and they teach at the elementary school EVERY kid including those who are otherwise in self-contained classes (and often have more of the challenging students at the MS/HS level too).  And have to follow IEPs etc. Art, music and PE are much more professionalized than they were in the past.  And librarians have to manage a collection and teach all the critical media/literacy skills.  There are shortages among all these too.  I think it is all too easy for people to decide that a job they are not doing isn't that hard or that important etc. without a lot of knowledge.[/quote]

I am a librarian who was previously a classroom teacher. They should ABSOLUTELY get paid more than me. There is no comparison for workload and responsibilities. Yes, specialist teachers see more kids and do more grades. But ES teachers have to prep reading, writing, word study, math, ss, science, small group instruction, Morning Meeting, grade work, do report cards, host Back to School Night, do conferences with each kid, attend IEP meetings, go on field trips, ect. There really is not a comparison and I am saying this as a specialist. I am not saying we should not be paid more also - just that classroom teachers and SPED teachers should be getting paid more. [/quote]

Specialist teachers also have to do grading, report cards etc.  Art teachers are also often responsible for exhibitions, for buying and maintaining supplies and equipment and music teachers for performances and instruments.  My own experience is as a classroom teacher and for a brief time as a principal (then quickly back to the classroom for me--I hated doing admin!)  I just don't like it when people assume a job they don't have full knowledge of is 'worth less' than others.   But the one thing being a principal afforded me was seeing a bigger picture of what each role was doing.  I didn't see a big variation in the amount of responsibilities of the various teachers.  They are all there doing a lot of work.[/quote]

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