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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what? Neither can I. It  took me an hour and 44 mins to get to work this morning. And I have significantly more education than most teachers. [/quote]

71% of FCPS teachers hold at least a Masters degree. Many have more than one advanced degree.

I’m curious… what’s your education background? [/quote]

Np. They don't need it. I'm all for paying teachers more, but they should be paid more because it's a hard job, not because they have an unnecessary masters degree.[/quote]

I teach AP. You think my degree in my discipline is unnecessary?[/quote]

A master's degree is unnecessary. And most teachers do not have a master's in the discipline they teach anyway, they have a bs masters in  "liberal arts" or education. My BIL teaches AP and he doesn't have a grad degree in his discipline. He barely has a ba in it. "I teach AP" is not the flex you think it is.[/quote]

Do you have a source for that?  I was an elementary teacher and most of my colleagues had degrees in education as I did, but high school teachers likely have degrees in their discipline, as well.  Pretty sure many have Masters' Degrees.

I am not sure that an anecdotal BIL is enough evidence to support your opinion.[/quote]

Pp is saying they don't have a masters in the area, ie subject area, they teach. I've met many teachers with masters degrees in education but not a single one with a masters in a substantive subject, e.g. a history teacher having a *masters* in history, not just a BA in history and a masters in education. [/quote]

6 figures? A teacher with 20 years in with a BA is not making 6 figures. They have frozen steps so many times that the step number does not correlate to salary.

The 20 year teacher has a good pension, but the 10 year teacher has a pension that is similar to many private sector jobs.

I have a masters degree in a field related to what I teach, 17 years of experience in FCPS, and am not making six figures. I thought I would be by now, but FCPS started to not give step increases regularly soon after I started.

I work far more than 40 hours per week. In the summer at least one week is spent at a training of some sort. I’m teaching a new class next year that I need to prep for this summer, which I will do without additional compensation.

While many other jobs mentioned above do not pay well enough to live alone for the first few years, they provide opportunities for promotion into jobs that pay more. Unless you become an administrator, teaching does not. 
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