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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just got our school budget. Our librarian makes $140k. Most teachers make about $130k and they work for 9 months per year and they get a pension.
I am happy for them but people have to stop with pressuring parents to give them gift cards, valentine presents and all the talk about them not being well paid.
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This is not valid in other states. I am just talking about DCPS and probably DC metro and other big cities.

That’s it 🙂[/quote]

Yup. I have 20 years experience and am in a senior role at my large nonprofit and make $126. We have had some lovely, lovely teachers and assistants when my kids were at a title 1 elementary, and I was generous with the gifts. But I no longer go overboard or give gifts to individual teachers in middle and hs. They are professionals![/quote]

A 20 year teacher with a masters makes 112. https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/page_content/attachments/WTU%20FY20-FY23.pdf

I don't think I can put into words how maddening this thread is[/quote]

How much do you think that other nonprofit professionals with 20 years of experience and a master's make, and who have similar benefits (except for the summar breaks, week at Christmas and Easter)? Who also have huge drawbacks in their work (which are hard to describe, relatively, because most of us can imagine what it's like to be in a classroom)?[/quote]

[b]And how much do they think college professors make? [/b]Elementary school art teachers in DCPS make more than art professors in universities. [/quote]

Looking at some local schools... college professors make more than elementary art teachers. At GW, the average professor in the college of arts and sciences makes about $160K. In the college of business and school of public health, it's over $200K.[/quote]

You understand that the "college of arts and sciences" includes people in a broad range of disciplines making a broad range of salaries, yes? It includes professors in physics or cognitive neuroscience who may make significantly more, but also professors in the arts and languages who make significantly less. And that's just the full professors. Many academics struggle for years to find full professor jobs, working in adjunct positions that pay almost nothing and often come without benefits.

The point is that there are many, many professionals in this area who make less than 100k. Teaching is a tough profession and I'm not trying to take anything away from that. But refusing to acknowledge that DCPS (rightly!) actually pays teachers pretty well makes you come off as entitled, especially to parents with kids in DCPS who have similar educations and also work in tough fields and make the same or less. Like it is just insulting to be told by a teacher making 100k or 112k "oh well it's expensive here, that's unliveable" when I live on less than that.[/quote]

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