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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just got our school budget. Our librarian makes $140k. Most teachers make about $130k and they work for 9 months per year and they get a pension.
I am happy for them but people have to stop with pressuring parents to give them gift cards, valentine presents and all the talk about them not being well paid.
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This is not valid in other states. I am just talking about DCPS and probably DC metro and other big cities.

That’s it 🙂[/quote]

Yup. I have 20 years experience and am in a senior role at my large nonprofit and make $126. We have had some lovely, lovely teachers and assistants when my kids were at a title 1 elementary, and I was generous with the gifts. But I no longer go overboard or give gifts to individual teachers in middle and hs. They are professionals![/quote]

A 20 year teacher with a masters makes 112. https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/page_content/attachments/WTU%20FY20-FY23.pdf

I don't think I can put into words how maddening this thread is[/quote]

My relative has less experience works in DCPS and makes more than $112k a year (according to her and another relative who looked up her salary because they could not believe what she said).  She has been at DCPS less than 10 years.  She brags about her 6 figure salary, not having to do lesson plans and talks about how her school underperforms.  She lives in DC because she says she gets extra $ for living and working in DC.  She also definitely gets months off in the summer.   She told family she would never send her own children to her school.  She got them into a very nice charter.

I would NEVER keep my job if I underperformed, yet some students can't read or do math and yet the teachers and administrators stay.  My relative coasts and knows she can because she has a forever job, can retire pretty young with a giant pension paid for by the taxpayer until she dies.  It is not sustainable.

I want good, great, and excellent teachers to be paid a lot more, but I think we need to get rid of the pensions and switch over to 401s.  I also think bad and mediocre teachers should leave like how any underperforming employee would go through a process to be let go.  When they retire in their mid 50s with a 6 figure pension and live until they are 80s-100s, the taxpayer can't pay for that, it isn't sustainable, especially when many of the schools in DCPS are not very good.

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You don’t get extra pay from DCPS for living in DC.

If she’s getting two whole months off she doesn’t work for DCPS.

There is a process to be let go. It just doesn’t only let go of the bad teachers.

Most teachers won’t be retiring in their mid 50s.

If a 55 year old teacher with 30 years of experience and making $141k retired they would get about $82k a year. [/quote]

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