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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bottom line is that DCPS teachers are not underpaid.  In other areas they are but not in DC.[/quote]
I agree. I make $120,000 a year- work @ office/school 7 hours a day, have amazing benefits & leave. 
There are many thing I’d like to see improved about DCPS- but pay isn’t one of them. [/quote]

Ok, then special education teachers can just be paid more. You gen ed teachers can stay with a 117k cap if you like.

Idk how you manage to only work 7 hours a day, you must get to work late and leave early wow. And you don’t have to work overtime? Dang you’re killin it  :roll: [/quote]

Why rolling your eyes? I AM a special education teacher. And 7 hours- because School day is 9-3:30. That is 6.5 hours. Of which I have an 45 minute lunch & 45 minutes of planning. Client/kid facing time is very short. Actual contact with kids is less than 5.5 hours a day. I do more from home. However, it’s because I enjoy it and want to try new things. Not because I need to put in more hours.

Why on earth should sped teachers, like myself, be paid more? Honest question.[/quote]

At this rate I fear there will be any schools to come back to, I'm so depressed about this whole situation as DC on fire and the future of our kids in this city especially black and brown children and other minorities already at a disadvantage!

I highly doubt you are a sped teacher or a DCPS teacher at all for that matter. Teachers have to report to work at 8:00 that is 7.30 hours minimum. 
Every job has a lunch lol, and some days I work through mine like other jobs might have to. Planning should also be work...unless you’re saying you’re not utilizing it... No one would say a lawyer isn’t working when they are researching and preparing for a case   :?

All I am saying is I’m tired of this mentality that ‘subordinates’ get paid rock way less. A principal can make 200k plus. The school certainly can run without an admin present each day but the school cannot run without teachers and paras ever. Not saying I need 200k but at least making it to 150. [/quote]

Teachers at my DCPS (Capitol Hill) only have to be in at 8 one day/week + one extra day biweekly.[/quote][/quote]

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