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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I’m a Gen-exer too and yes, the financial pressures are much worse for millennial teachers than they ever were for our generation. [/quote]

Maybe, for you.  But, I am a certified Baby Boomer--and, believe me, we had more financial difficulties than the current new grads.

What we did NOT have was all this testing and busy work that is put on teachers today.  But, we also did not have all the teacher work days and not nearly as many holidays.  Summer vacation was longer, however.  No question that there are far more professional pressures on today's teachers.  [b]But, financial--not so much.[/quote][/b]

http://www.epi.org/publication/the-teacher-pay-gap-is-wider-than-ever-teachers-pay-continues-to-fall-further-behind-pay-of-comparable-workers/

I also object to your statement that we have more teacher work days. Yes, we have tons of them but what do you think we are doing during teacher work days? Not doing our own work. Out of the 10 or so we have every year, one of them is mine to do what I need to do in my classroom. One out of 10. The rest of them are non-stop meetings. Most of them are held at other schools not near my own school. I do my own work (lesson planning, grading, etc) in my own time. Even 2 or 3 out of 5 planning periods per week is taken up by meetings. Schools are run more like businesses these days so the testing gives us the constant streams of data. When do we crunch the numbers? During our planning periods. [/quote]

You need to read more carefully.  I did not attack you at all.  I just stated that you have more teacher work days--and that is true.  I totally understand your issue with all the work--I have written on here before that that is the problem with the teacher work days--teachers are not allowed to work.  That was even true back in the dark ages when I was teaching.  Somehow, the administration--even then--thinks that teacher preparation days are a great opportunity to schedule meetings and training, when all you really want is time in your classroom ALONE--or with your team members.

If you read what I wrote--my point was that your financial situation is no worse than it was when Baby Boomers started teaching.  FWIW, we did not travel like the young people of today.  If we did, it was on a shoestring.  No one I knew went for manicures or pedicures unless it was for their own wedding.  We ate out on special occasions and, yes, we, too, spent our own money on our classroom needs.
Yes, I totally agree that the professional pressures are ridiculous.  I said that.[/quote]

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