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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the heaviness of your school’s admin team. That’s where the money goes. The discrepancy between HOS salary and a teacher’s salary is just gross. Plus, the HOS often gets a house and possibly a car. Admins often get a month off in the summer. And I have taught in several DMV independent schools - while the HOS has to handle the headaches, the job is not comparable to that of a business exec. They surround themselves with other well-paid administrators who handle much of the work. It’s really disgraceful how little the teachers make. [/quote]

Well said[/quote]

-Number of admin and non-teaching personnel in various departments continuously increasing for obscure reasons.
-at the same time, hiring expensive consultants to outsource completion of various projects such as photography campaigns, website revamping, marketing, constituent surveys, when the school has employees who are qualified (per job description) to do those things.

The extra spending causes a strain on the resources that could be allocated to increasing teacher pay or even helping reduce the endless tasks. There are more employees around but teachers seem to always have more and more to do.

Around the holidays, at a school I used to work at, teachers received absolutely nothing, not even a small note from the leadership. They did, however, have the audacity to tell parents not to give teachers anything worth more than $20/$25. Teachers aren’t after presents but that messaging felt like a slap in the face. What a classless move.

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I liked what DC’s former nursery/elementary school did for teacher gifts, which was to collect money for a group cash gift by grade, with a percentage taken out to go to specialists (like art, music) who taught multiple grades. It meant that each family could give what they thought best/could afford without any stigma for “not giving enough” or sense of “buying favoritism” for being extremely generous, and every teacher was guaranteed a nice (and equal) gift.

I realize this isn’t a model that works well once students have subject-specific teachers (MS/US), but it was great for the early years. [/quote]

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