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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]until SPED has its own payscale that is different and more than the regular teacher payscale, no one should take a SPED teacher position.

SPED teachers have to be a teacher + case manager + following IEP goals and accommodations/modifications + in some cases has to be collaborative teacher in team taught classes thus sharing teaching roles with gen ed teachers.

SPED teachers are severely underpaid. [/quote]

A lot of teachers will tell you it isn’t about the pay. It’s the disrespect and the poor working conditions. Fix those.
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So true. Teachers who have been around for a while and have pretty decent salaries (>100K) are leaving before retirement age. And the working conditions *should* be much easier to fix than pay! 
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Sometimes it's like Gatehouse knows what could help working conditions.... but goes in the complete opposite direction....and more people leave.[/quote]

As much as we like to dunk on Gatehouse (and they deserve it), this is national problem. It’s going to take a state and national policy overhaul to solve it.[/quote]

Agree to an extent. Gatehouse has ways they can alleviate some stress and unnecessary tasks for teachers. They often go the other way and pile it on. Not smart during a national teacher shortage. But agree the problem is bigger than all of us.[/quote]

Everyone at Gatehouse is perpetually justifying their own existence. They’ve got to keep changing and adding and creating new initiatives … or they won’t be needed. And then they’d end up back in the classroom that they were so desperate to escape.[/quote]

Half of the instructional coaches that we have wouldn’t exist if we weren’t trying to squeeze every living drop of data out of these kids. Half the CLTs are just picking apart the wording in the state standards and then picking apart the pacing guide. For my ES teachers, do you notice that there is very little care or attention given to social studies? I have never seen a SS coach, I don’t even know if they exist. It’s not tested heavily so it ends up at the bottom of the totem pole for schools. [/quote]

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