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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a teacher but work in finance for an engineering company.   If you take a salary/9 × 12.. it is more than a lot of them make.  Sorry,  they are overpaid.[/quote]

1. A teachers contracted calendar  is not the same as a student's calendar.  THEN add an addional 3 weeks of setting up the classroom or closing it down. I worked a minimum of 60 hrs/week during the school year.  My contract was from 8/1 until 6/30 every year... FWIW.

2.  What summer job can teachers find that would substantially supplement their income while allowing time to take grad classes?

3.  still had expenses like childcare, mortgage, etc.

While i love teaching, I had to make a choice of time with my own kids vs. my students.  I chose my kids and now stay home while working a p/t job.[/quote]

Ignore the errors.  Sick right now, and it is 3:42... But you understand my point, right?[/quote]

Agree that you can't supplement your income easily..but all I am saying is in the private sector many highly educated people work for a lot less under more stressful conditions.  We who work in the private sector work unpaid overtime too.  This is for MCPS teachers not private school teachers.  Private school teachers are not overpaid,[/quote]

Pp here, I taught 9 years with a Masters and my final salary was $39k.  Too much?  We lived in NY.  What  conditions are more stressful than a dad of one of our students shot 1 block from the school, a drug bust across the street from the school (after a year long investigation that involved a student's father.) About 1/2 of my students had at least 1 parent incarcerated and/or in a gang.  Despite this, we were threatened with being fired if test scores did not improve.  Yes, teachers were either fired or given the choice to resign.  At this school, 4 teachers in 5 years.

Again, I LOVED teaching, but there is a lot more to our job than covering the curriculum.  
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No you were not overpaid.  I am talking about the folks who work for 15-20 years as a teacher at MCPS and are making $90K-110K plus cushy benefits.[/quote]

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