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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A teacher with a masters degree and 10 years of experience (in the county) is paid roughly $48/hour for their contract hours. Any hours beyond their 40 hour work week is unpaid.

Last week I worked an additional 15 hours. If I were to recalculated my pay based on the hours worked, I received ~$35/hr.

In this high cost of living area, I couldn't afford to have children and live in this county without my husband's salary.
Why can't teacher median salaries reflect the areas they serve? 
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By additional hours, do you mean the time needed to prepare lessons or grade assignments? That's your job, a responsibility you knew you would have by making a career choice to be a teacher.Part of the trade off for having so many holidays and summers off.

If your job is so terrible, change careers.

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And here's another genius offering a brilliant response.

You do know there's a teacher shortage, right?  If you're so quick to respond, clearly you are in the know.

So why would you chase out people who are in the profession for the right reasons?

so jealous of having summers off - Well, if that's what's stuck in your craw, I'll say that it's GREAT having summers off with my children.  I love not having to send them to a camp for childcare.  We have leisurely summers that build beautiful memories.

But guess what?  I'm still making lesson plans b/c I don't like "recycling" old lessons.  And I grade at night and on weekends and during my kids' activities and over our breaks . . .

It doesn't end.  the difference?  We're not being paid when we do work those extra hours.[/quote]

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