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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like some of the teachers here confused DCPS parents with private school parents.  Your salaries are similar to many of ours.[/quote]

Yes, 100k is the average. And I don’t think the top teacher salary should be average. There a loads of DCPS parents who make way over 100k, I am one of them. [/quote]

I was a government social worker.  Teachers pay scale is far better than ours, better health care and they get a higher salary on a 10 month schedule and can choose to earn more with summer school.  On a good day, I'd go to work at 8 and get home between 7-9, have to do paperwork and turn around and do it again.  Then usually one day on the weekend to write court reports and other things.  I worked 15 years and never made it past $70.

Teachers make reasonable amount in this area for the job they do.  A two teacher family is comfortable.  The issue isn't income but how you choose to spend what you earn.

No reason why teachers cannot tutor in evenings and weekends.  If they are tutoring during the day they should be fired.  It makes no sense for a teacher to do child care, which is what a pod is, over teaching as the pod will only last till we go back to school and is time limited.  Any smart teacher will stay with the school system and make the best of a bad situation like all of us are.[/quote]

DCPS Social Workers get paid the same amount. And teachers don’t just deserve to be ‘comfortable’ they deserve to be decently wealthy. Why should a principal make exponentially more? Without teachers they are nothing. Good leadership is important but we’ve been shown time and time again that the real heroes are not always the leaders.

Even just not having real overtime like other jobs would be better than nothing. Absolutely no admin gets paid $40 per hour yet they dare call it ‘admin premium’ and you only get 1-5 hours a week because the school has to pay out of pocket, ridiculous.

Also pod time won’t necessarily decrease. You could do it after school or on Wednesday. People will still do them because students will be in school 2x/week. We’ll likely be doing this well into the 2021/22 school year.

(And some other professions as well but I’m specifically talking about teachers right now.)[/quote]

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