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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers never seem to be aware of how benefits work outside of the teaching profession.

How much do teachers pay for their health insurance?

How much do teachers pay for their retirement? In DCPS, it is 8%.

What do teachers get for their retirement? Suppose a teacher worked from 25-65. They'd earn more than 75% of their salary as a defined benefit retirement package. Find me a private sector job in which you received 75% of your salary in retirement from just this one prong? (https://dcrb.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcrb/publication/attachments/SPD_Teachers_Plan_2017_Final_6-5-2018.pdf)[/quote]

What does this have to do with the discussion on flexible scheduling?[/quote]

Everything in life is tradeoffs. You cannot complain about a bad thing without properly judging it as penance for a good thing.

Yes, your schedule is inflexible. But it also includes relatively lavish retirement benefits, summers off, and other perks.

Likewise, cops and military can retire at 20 years with full benefits (instead of the more common 30 years). This isn't some perk-from-nowhere; it is compensation for a job in which they risk their lives and undergo physical hardship.

So, generous retirement has everything to do with inflexible daily schedules since a job is a package of attributes, not just some random things cobbled together without a connection to each other. [/quote]

Considering teachers are not making it 10+ years in the field, maybe this retirement benefit isn't as big of a carrot as you think it is.[/quote]

Au contraire: average number of years of teaching experience is about 15 years. See https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2007/ruraled/tables/tablea3_8.asp[/quote]

That data is from 2004. I started my career in 03. This job is 3x harder now. [/quote]

I cannot believe that person posted data from NINETEEN YEARS AGO and really thought they said something of substance. How glorious.[/quote]

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