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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again with the "woe is me" act. You're not alone. You're not special. This notion you have that the rest of us wake up, kick our heels up on our desks, and watch the clock until 5pm rolls around is mistaken. [/quote]

Nasty, nasty, nasty.

If you hate teachers, home school.[/quote]

No one said they hate teachers.  They said DC teachers are well paid.  And several DC teachers agreed with that.

Others that don't agree are explaining why teaching is apparently harder than any other job, even if they do get two months off, plus multiple other breaks.[/quote]

I AM one of the teachers who agreed we are paid well. ‘Super well paid’ implies it’s too much, OPs replies have also been nasty.
Send me the posts that have said ‘teaching is harder than any job’

We have said it’s a hard job, thus a shortage is present even in DCPS where we are paid well.

Teachers work on average 196 days per year minimum or more. The average American works 260 so looks like those breaks in between do not make a difference. Yes we have 2 months of unpaid time where we can choose not to work- if we make enough. 
I am not saying that is not a plus but sometimes it’s not if you want to make more money in your regular job.

Teachers in DCPS are allowed to say our jobs are hard, we do not need to be gaslit by random parents in a forum. You may say your job is hard too, no one to my knowledge has stated, ‘your job is easy compared to being a teacher.’ Your job may be harder. But until you work for DCPS for a few years at a title 1 school you will not know the toxic environment teachers may go through. I will not know the things you may go through but I’d never gaslight police officers for example and say ‘well you can get up to a month of paid leave and 2 weeks of holiday pay, also you get a 25k sign on bonus and can retire in only 25 years.’ That discredits how stressful their jobs could be, depending on their stations. It discredits the risks that come with their jobs that are obvious and the ones the average person may not know about.

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Thank you! You are amazing. [/quote]

The question was whether DCPS teachers are paid well, and the bottom line is that comparing a 10-month salary to a 12-month salary is apples and oranges.  If teachers want to make the point that their salaries are too low, it is disingenuous not to acknowledge that part of the reason they appear lower is because of the unpaid summers off.

To the question of whether DCPS teachers are paid relatively well compared to other locations, I think that has been established.  Teachers may feel that it is still not enough, but objectively, yes, DCPS teachers are highly paid compared to their peers.[/quote]

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