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I have a PhD and was offered a position with DCPS a year ago and the salary was 65k. [/quote]

😱 This is tragic. WTF is wrong with this country. [/quote]

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Lot, but not because a phd is getting paid what every other teacher in dcps is getting paid. The problem is that someone is getting a PhD to work in k-12
 Do you also expect your manicurist to get paid the same as your neurologist? [/quote]

I work at another DC private. Several of my fellow teachers have PhDs. Why would it be unusual to you that someone highly educated would wish to work in education? Are you suggesting that K-12 teaching isn’t “worth” a PhD? I have a Masters, as do almost all of my colleagues, and most of us are continuing education in various ways. It is not unusual for educators to be highly educated. Instead of saying PhDs don’t belong in K-12 education, perhaps we should value education more and pay accordingly so additional highly-educated people consider the field. [/quote]

Colleges and universities produce far more PhDs than they need to replenish their teaching ranks, so private education is a great field for those people to apply their knowledge and skills to educating someone.

The problem is that we pay a lawyer $400 an hour to shuffle papers correctly, but we think paying a teacher $50 an hour is some kind of unwarranted luxury.

It's all about social values.[/quote]

Teachers get paid 50 dollars an hour roughly. If you factor in 13 weeks PTO- they work around 1500 hours a year, so at a salary of 75k that’s about 50 an hour. [/quote]

Good luck trying to support yourself comfortably and securely around here on 75K.  You either need spousal income or other income to get by. So a big part of the potential teaching pool is GONE.

The bottom line here is that teaching isn't valued in our economy and society like many other professions.  It's ironic that people make millions in other professions then want the best education money can buy for their kids but will only support teacher pay at 1/8 or less of their own income.

They get what they pay for.[/quote]

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