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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paid maternity leave. That's one of the "outlandish" things the Chicago teachers want. Paid maternity leave.

Caps on class sizes. I have yet to meet a parent who is coolwith their child being ina  classroom with 39 other students. I back the teachers on this one. [/quote]

The current classroom cap in Chicago is 31 kids, but everyone admits that the city goes over that limit.  40 isn't typical.

But let's use your number of 40 kids.

The teachers want some of the highest pay in the country, and they want a 16% increase in pay, but the school district is broke.  They they also want caps on class sizes.  It seems to me that the best way to lower the class sizes would be to hire more teachers.

Average teacher salary (and I know there are benefits costs and other things) in chicago is $71K.

Lets say you have a group of schools with 100 teachers with each one making $71,000 having 40 students...so 4000 students total.  That's $7,100,000 in salary costs.

If we want to take the class sizes down to no more than 30 kids in a class...that requires 134 teachers.  You could make that work on the same salary costs by paying the teachers $52,985 each.

Lets compare that to a national average teacher salary of $56,069....that would give you 126 teachers...so only 32 kids in a class vs 40.

It's not in the teacher's interest to lower the salaries, but it is clearly in the interests of the students, to stop the pay raises, lower salaries and hire more teachers.

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I m not a teacher, but lady you are out of your freaking mind.  What math or science teacher would work in a Chicago public school for $56k.  That person would take their talent somewhere else.  Do you know what the COL is like in Chicago.  You cannot compare Chicago salaries to Tallahassee salaries.  Are you also one of the same posters who always write a post on DCUM about the tax rate in DC should be lower than in other areas because the COL is so high.  [/quote]

So give the school district the ability to pay the science and math teachers more. But I just flat out don't believe that most teacher positions in Chicago can't be filled by qualified teachers for much much less than the current salary. [/quote]

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