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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did someone really say giving cash or gift cards is demeaning???  No, their salaries are demeaning and I’m a teacher, so demean away. [/quote]

How much do you make? [/quote]

21k[/quote]

The avg teacher salary for Maryland is 80k- for 9 months of work. Starting next year there is mandatory 60k minimum for teachers in Maryland.

Plenty of young adults are graduating college and working jobs that start at 50k in cities like NYC- and that’s for 40++ hrs per week, 12 months for year. [/quote]

I’m not in Maryland ding dong [/quote]

Teachers in the DC area make well above the national average. And importantly, not all public school kids have parents who out-earn teachers. In fact I would bet less than half of all public school families have incomes that exceed what a dual-teacher family would earn. Many teachers are also married to high earners, so even where a parent out earns their child's teacher by 20k or something, their comparative HHIs put the teacher well ahead. Teachers where I live also receive benefits I don't, like assistance with home purchases and transportation stipends.

If you you want to quietly expect the wealthy families at your school to give you cash gifts out of if some grievance about your paycheck, whatever. But the expectation that all families do it, or the belief that families who don't give money are cheap or selfish, is the height if entitlement. You already get paid! Why am I giving you the money I earned as a "thank you." I don't owe you anything extra and there is zero reason that parents who make similar or less than teachers should transfer more money to teachers.[/quote]

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