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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s all supply vs demand.

Are teachers in Mississippi underpaid at like 30k a year? Absolutely.

Is an individual teacher making 30k in Mississippi underpaid? Maybe not. If we tripled the pay to 90k it’s more likely that the 30k teacher should be out of a job as the talent pool would increase and we would hire better teachers.

So even a teacher in Virginia making 100k who “thinks” they should make 200k May not be able to keep their job if we were fair about keeping it meritocratic. Even if they keep their jobs it would likely result in the majority of their coworkers losing their jobs if we are being fair.[/quote]

True, but the unions would prevent the firing of bad teachers. Which is also why good teachers can't be paid more.[/quote]

Considering how hard it is to fire teachers, the automatic raises, pension and benefits, many teachers are compensated quite well. In MCPS, 85% of teachers have been there for 5 or more years and half have been there for at least 15 years. If the pay was so bad they would not be able to retain teachers this well. [/quote]

I'm a teacher and I agree with you. The pay isn't the problem; the working conditions are.

Teachers feel trapped. Many of us would love to do something else, but the pension makes it hard to leave. So teachers start to cut corners in an effort to survive another 5, 10, or 20 years. That's why you see so many posts about "bad" teachers. They aren't necessarily bad teachers, but they are teachers who stop working tons of outside hours, so grades don't get done and emails don't get responses. It's merely survival. Ending work at 4pm instead of 8pm means you can last longer in a demanding profession.

If I had to choose between a 20% increase or a 20% reduction in job requirements, I'd take the reduction in workload. Without hesitation. [/quote]

I would absolutely love for the union to focus on improving working conditions. The problem is that compensation costs are increasing faster than county revenues, and so there is less and less money every year for everything other than existing staffs' salaries.[/quote]

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