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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The mcps balloon has popped. [/quote]

Sadly this will be the downfall of public education in this area. County council failing to recognize that if you don’t pay teachers their COLA or steps, while raising insurance premiums with worse coverage, teachers will leave. It won’t be the teachers within 5 or 7 years of retiring, but those that are only five or seven years into teaching, the brightest and most capable ones won’t see the value in staying. You can’t take home less money each year and still pay the bills when inflation is skyrocketing.

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This has been happening to federal employees since 2009. We gave up COLAs for several years and received tiny ones while our health care increases by double digits each year. [/quote]

This is why teachers union and the school system gets a bad rap. It's not just federal employees but private sector workers that have felt the pinch these past years of cost of living, taxes, and insurance increases while facing salary stagnation. For the superintendent and teacher's union to act like an increase in budget (but not the amount of increase they want) is catastrophic to education and everyone should write the county council to increase revenue (which reads as increase taxes) is tone deaf. There's other ways to decrease spending that need to be looked at. [/quote]

But federal employees generally make more money than teachers. I have a friend who is essentially an Admin Assistant at the FDA. She makes more than most Principals. [/quote]

She is lying.[/quote]

I don't know about this particular person, but all you have to do is look at the pay grades.  Most mid-level Fed jobs pay 10s of thousands more than teacher get.  Fact of the matter is, many teachers (especially new ones) can't even afford to live in MoCo.  [b]Hard to argue that we're better off than current residents[/b] (especially the ones that post on this board).[/quote]

Actually it is really easy to argue if you look at median incomes in Montgomery County. If you look at median incomes for people with masters degrees  teacher salaries are in line with the median. It is all in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Then factor in the pension and health care benefits compared with the high deductible plans most people have. Being a teacher looks pretty good.

Those high salaries you see in other fields are people who performed well (typically based on the subjective judgement of their supervisors) and got promoted. Teachers don't get promoted without leaving the classroom. That is because the union wants every teacher to get the same raises. That is not how it works in other fields.[/quote]

Disingenuous.  The average Fed in DC area makes 127K.  Average MoCo teacher makes 101K.  [/quote]

No, it's just data.

Most workers in Montgomery County are not feds.[/quote]

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