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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the repeated references to the high cost of living.  Students' families--including the posters here--experience the same cost of living.[/quote]

This! And many of us make less than DCPS teachers.[/quote]

I don’t understand these arguments. Is it woe is me I make so little no one else should make more than me? Like why shouldn’t we want everyone to be well compensated?[/quote]

My reading of the beginning of the thread was pushback against the DCUM idea that we should be giving teachers lots of monetary "thank you" gifts because they make so little. I'm a professional who makes a salary within (not at the very top or bottom) of the DCPS pay scales listed here, and before reading DCUM I thought that it was inappropriate to give professionals and public sector employees gifts over $20. This thread is all "$5 gift card!" but if you read the "what do you give teachers?" threads its never $5, i[b]t's like $50-100[/b]. If we are supposed to give teachers sums like that because they "make so little," you assume parents make much more, and many of us don't.

I'd be happy if middle class socially beneficial jobs like teaching made more! It's a hard job that is foundational to every community! I just can't make up the difference out of my own pocket, and think heartfelt cards from parents/kids and classroom supply contributions should be enough. [/quote]

Teachers do not expect gifts of that amount and my wife has never gotten anywhere near that amount - nor does she care!! [/quote]

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