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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, how about paraeducators. We work the same hours as teachers during the day, and get four vacation days. Yes Summers and some school holidays, but there are many what they call "no work no pay" days for paraeducators.

The hourly rate is less than what I could make at Starbucks or Costco. There is Health insurance, but that is changing too, for the worse: from CareFirst to Cigna[/quote]

Thanks for what you do. No question, you are inexcusably underpaid and underappreciated. [/quote]

+1  and yet we don't see a thread about paraeducators being overworked.

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Because for the most part, they're not. In my experience as a special ed teacher, the paras are people who have few other job opportunities and want the school schedule. My MIL worked as a para in a 1st grade class and complained endlessly about working with the kids (and God forbid if she was asked to help with a child with a disability, she wanted nothing to do with them). She took the job when her kids were in HS because she (her DH) wanted the health insurance but couldn't get another job with benefits because she had never worked before.
They get the great parts of the job (working with the kids) without all the junk- dealing with parents, paperwork, lesson planning, etc. The only exception IMO is special ed paras. They deserve way more pay than a run of the mill elementary class para. [/quote]

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