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[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]

Yes!! AND no pension. [/quote]

I am the person being quoted starting , "how much do you think other nonprofit professionals..." 
You may not get paid during those times, but you are also not working during those times. I find this argument so bizarre- you can get another job, or not, but your ANNUAL salary is X. People who have similar ANNUAL salaries of X ARE working during those times.
I think teachers should be paid more. But they are part of a group of a lot of people who should be paid more. And there is a lot to complain about, I get it, but I could tell you all the things I deal with in my nonprofit and/or government (as someone pointed out) rewarding job (in the sense that it has a mission-based agenda) and it would take a lot longer to explain than many of the teachers would, esp because teachers are more of a monolith than "mission based professiona" is. Which may be why we're not talking about it as much. [/quote]

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