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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a “snobby” degree. I’m not a better teacher than colleagues who went to less “snobby” schools. I didn’t take any education classes until graduate school, while these colleagues started getting real-life practice while still an undergraduate. I had to catch up. What my snobby degree arguably did do was make it easier to transition to a new field and out of MCPS. I may have had more options because I hadn’t zeroed in exclusively on education as an undergraduate. I’m not sure young people are incentivized to seek out teaching as an undergraduate these days because they can find their way there through different tracks and preserve other options at the same time.[/quote]

Finally, someone that seems to get it. It may seem horribly unfair, but compensation for a job is only very loosely tied to how good you are at your job, or how hard you work. It is more based on your replacement cost, which in turn is associated with the compensation offered to people with similar skills/education/experience in other jobs that could do your job at a minimally acceptable level. [/quote]

I’m not sure I read it the same way. To me, they are saying they have an out because they have a degree other than education.  Many teachers do not. While teachers have transferable skills, teaching is all they know. So many are feeling incredible disenfranchised right now and overwhelmed. [/quote]

PP here, and yes, that’s exactly it. That’s why teacher pay is what it is.  Could some teachers change jobs and make more in total compensation? Yes, some could, but most could not.[/quote]

I’m a teacher. I easily could. I have a bachelors in Econ and a maters in computer science. Do you know how many teachers I know with the same educational backgrounds? Actually most. We do this bc we love the kids. I could be making so much more…. Stop and think about that when you’re on a teacher rant. We are listening. We are planning our next moves. [/quote]

Who has time for that? No one cares about your posts. The majority thinks they are insane and disregard them. Again, no one cares. Just stop posting, for your own sake.[/quote]

Meant to be a reply to a psycho…not a teacher.[/quote]

It's pretty clear the psycho here is you, jfc what is wrong with you?[/quote]

You. You’re the problem. It’s you. [/quote]

It’s hilarious we can all find the one who is seriously deranged and yet they can’t figure out multiple people replying to them. [/quote]

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