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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an MCPS high school  teacher and I work my 2nd job on  Saturdays , full-time in summer, and every non-teaching day  that is scheduled like today, President's Day. It is my house maintenance money.   It paid for my new roof, my new furnace, and my kitchen+bathroom floors in the past couple of years.

I have 2 masters degrees. I had roommates until l I was 40, which allowed me to put a down payment on my house and pay for the adoption of my daughter..

Why aren't you DCUMers  running away from your current job and into public school teaching??[/quote]

MCPS teachers don't make as much as DCPS teachers. The whole premise of this thread is that DCPS teachers are paid well, not that all teachers, or even that all teachers in the area are paid well.

Why don't you get a job with DCPS? Apparently they are hiring.[/quote]

You do realize they only make 10k less than DC teachers…[/quote]

To start. DCPS teachers have a higher ceiling on pay because there are more Title 1 schools offering the T1 bump, and there are more bonuses available for performance. You might start out making only 10k more in DCPS, but you could wind up making 20-40k more than in MCPS if you stick around and can meet performance targets.

And before you yell at me, lots of industries have annoying performance targets that result in bonuses but are not always fairly applied. I get that the bonuses in DCPS for "highly effective" teachers don't always reflect good teaching but BS metrics. MANY industries where it can be hard to measure effectiveness or ROI have this problem. Probably the only job where bonuses can be tied very directly to performance in a way that feels fair is sales, and even there, there's a host of issues that are annoying (like being the wrong gender or ethnicity in an industry where people of the "right" gender/ethnicity regularly sell a lot more).

That's life. Work often sucks.[/quote]

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