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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]

Your math is accurate, but it is important to note teachers don’t get 13 weeks PTO. I get 2 weeks. I am between contracts during the summer months. I don’t get a ton of leave during the year for appointments, illness, etc. If I need to take 2 hours off, I have to put in for a full day. Saying I get 13 weeks off suggests far more flexibility than I actually have.

Also… 75K isn’t nearly enough considering the challenge of the job and the importance of the work. [/quote]

This isn't accurate at all -- and really depends on the school you are at. My wife is a teacher at an independent school. Her Contract runs from August - August, and gets paid on a 12 month cycle for 10 months of work -- however you slice it, in this example you'd make 75k in a year for 1500 hours of actual work.... (if you worked year round at your rate it would be equal to about a 100k job, which is still low -- I get that). You also get a lot more then 2 weeks paid time off -- I just looked at her calendar and during the school year in addition to actual holidays she had 17 days off (2 weeks during Christmas, 1 week for spring break).

I'm not saying that teachers are paid incredibly well -- but I am saying its a flexible work schedule that provides a better way of life then most jobs, which is the allure. My wife is home with my kids during the summer (which saves us a ton on camp bills), gets home by 4pm everyday (which saves us on aftercare costs) and I'm sorry to hear that your school isn't flexible for taking days off -- but my wife always takes off when the kids are sick or gets a sub for one class so she can run to a dentist appointment.[/quote]

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