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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Baltimore City teacher here. I have a Master’s degree and am in my 11th year of teaching and I make in the low $80k. Not sure where that info about salary comes from. Yes, we do get paid a higher salary than other counties but if they didn’t pay us more, nobody would work here. The conditions in most schools are disgusting so they have to do something to attract teachers.

Most students don’t care at all about standardized testing. I proctor MCAP and there is nothing we can do to stop at often just clicking through the test. When they are done, they often just take a nap. They know these scores don’t affect them in any way so why bother? We try our best to retain students who shouldn’t go on to the next grade but admin rarely allows it. Most of these kids have serious attendance issues so that’s why they are so behind. I have a kindergartener who has missed something like 70 days of school. We just celebrated the 100th day last week. We will try to retain this student but I doubt it will be allowed. It will be the same every year in terms of attendance but it will take years before they can be referred to truancy court. Nothing happens there either. It’s very frustrating.

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Teacher (with masters degree) salary of $80K is not a lot. In fact, it’s embarrassingly modest.

So odd how that outrageous $400K salary of a Baltimore administrator got deleted. The few at the top are gauging everyone else, especially the children.
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