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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New to this thread and haven’t read many of the pages.  I will post a separate topic if this is too OT.  So, substitute teachers only make $18/hour?  Anybody know the rational for not paying them close to what a full time teacher per hour?  [/quote]

Yeah, that's about right -- maybe more if they are a long term sub.   [b]They were able to get enough subs at that rate so why raise the rate?[/b]  Also, unions didn't want subs making more than first year teachers, I think, or else school districts would staff with subs instead of teachers to save money![/quote]

No they weren't. Districts were struggling with this since before the pandemic. I used to sub and there were always a lot of vacancies especially on Mondays, Fridays, and the days around breaks or holidays. Sometimes I'd be split between classes or shuffled around to cover an hour here and another hour there. It's definitely worse now though. $18 per hour is bullshit. Nannies won't work for that, and they're responsible for fewer kids. You might get a college babysitter who needs flexible, occasional work, but that person isn't paying taxes on what they make. Subs aren't eligible for health care, vision, dental, disability insurance, group life insurance, or the state retirement plan like regular teachers. This alone should boost their pay, especially for the long term subs who are paid slightly more but still way too little if they're covering a classroom that started out without an assigned teacher. [/quote]

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