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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mcps educator here- i stay because the benefits are so good. You will lose good educators if you dismantle the union because our benefits will go downhill. We can't attract or retain current educators even with our good pay, pension and health benefits.  If you think the teaching staff is bad now, wait until you take away any positive benefits of the job.[/quote]

Then you need to fix what is wrong vs just focusing on money.  And, stop hiring non certified teachers who have no educational background. Some are ok, most aren’t.  [/quote]

Chicken and egg- you need to pay competitively and create in-demand jobs that attract people to the field. So few young people are going into education these days- thus, the need to draw people from other fields.[/quote]

The pay is competitive.  Pay is better than other equal county jobs and better benefits especially when you consider it’s 10 month vs 12 month pay.  The issue is housing prices and cost of living.  You can thank those overpaying for their homes and driving prices up.  [/quote]

DP.  The question is not whether the pay is better than other [i]county[/i] jobs (and I wonder what might be considered "equal" in this post), on a monthly basis or otherwise.  The question is whether total compensation is competitive vs. the set of jobs that those currently teaching or who might consider teaching would have available to them, given education & experience, when considered in the light of the work experience, including time off, working conditions, etc.

Those "overpaying" for their homes are participating in a market.  They are deciding if a particular price is worth the location, size, condition, configuration, etc., along with a seller/landlord who is deciding if an offer is enough for them, given their own aims (market exit, trading up/down, income stream, etc.) and the community/financial environment at the time of sale/rental agreement.

Teachers are participating in that market, to one degree or another.  If enough wealthier folks are living in the area so that the housing market goes up, there would be, theoretically, that wealth to be tapped via taxes to support competitive public salaries, better approaching an equilibrium.  If the offered compensation paradigms fail to attract/retain enough qualified teachers, say, because the tax base objects to the tax levels required to achieve high enough compensation (or is unwilling to support shifts in funding from other public uses for that compensation), then the community loses out on educator numbers, quality or both.[/quote]

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