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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And fyi the "we're so underpaid" is just false, I am sorry but it is. I don't think teachers are overpaid either. I think the compensation is well in line with those for other jobs requiring similar education (but no, it's not in line with inflated tech salaries - guess what you still have a job and thousands of them don't so joke's on them)[/quote]

I’m a 2nd year teacher making 63k, and I work tons of overtime.

You think that’s paid well? [/quote]

Um... yes! $63k is a great salary for a little over a year of experience and summers off. [/quote]

Are you ten years old? Summers aren’t “off.” We aren’t paid. We have ten month contracts. Try and keep up.[/quote]

Most salaried workers do not have the option to not work during the summer. We work or we lose our jobs.[/quote]

If the unpaid summer is such a benefit to you, please consider switching professions. We need more teachers.

(Apparently those unpaid summers aren’t a big enough perk to keep many of us in the profession, but maybe it’s enough for you.) 
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+1. The bizarre thing about these conversations about teacher pay is that they're always theoretical and divorced from the reality of the fact that we don't have enough teachers. A salary and benefits are "great" if they attract enough people who want the job, not if someone who doesn't want the job thinks they sound great.[/quote]

The fact that MCPS has so many experienced teachers suggests that they are staying because of the pay. The teacher shortage in Montgomery County (currently I see 174 vacant positions) is likely due to poor working conditions. Truly low paying jobs like childcare do not have the majority of staff working there over 15 years.[/quote]

That's a low freaking bar.  "The turnover is not as bad as jobs that pay literal poverty wages, so the pay must be good enough?"[/quote]

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