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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20th year teaching. Yes, I’ve crossed over the $100,000 mark. I live in DC, and given the cost of living here, I am far from wealthy. Comparing the salaries of teachers in cities with very different costs of living makes zero sense. Of course their salaries are lower. Their apartments also cost $600 a month lol. [/quote]

I am not remotely suggesting that teachers are overpaid; they aren't. But all of the posts acting like teachers are badly paid are just inaccurate. Head teachers in DCPS make more than the average total income of a kid in a DC public classroom. So if we're feeling really bad for the economic pressure being exerted on teachers to return, think about their students' families.[/quote]

So you all know teachers are important now right? Has this pandemic taught you that?

Are they as important as a doctor?
A lawyer?

An engineer?

Marketing managers?

The average wage in DC I think is like 69k. Is being a teacher an average job? Is someone who spends the majority of the regular school day with the city's children average?
Is having to have multiple titles in one (that you are not trained for average?)

Even before Covid-19, I think teachers should be paid more. I don't think the pay is bad, but it's not excellent either.
So I imagine most teachers who respond are not talking about hardships due to covid-19.

Regardless I hope we can get back on topic, the agreement has been officially signed and every school will decide the model.[/quote]

GW and Georgetown and WHC are paying new nurses a starting salary of $58K to work in the ICU with Covid patients.  No hazard pay.  
Nurses with 10 years of experience at these hospitals are around $80K.

Some professions are just underpaid.  [/quote]

Nurses are the equivalent of paraprofessionals, unless you're a nurse practitioner. Who are paid 80k- 200k. Stop.

Even if they were underpaid, 2 wrongs don't make a what..?  :-/[/quote]

Nurses are not the equivalent of paraprofessionals.

I agree with your second statement.  I think some teachers should be paid more, or the demands on them (during normal times) should be reduced to focus on high value educating and keeping kids safe, not some of the paperwork/testing nonsense they have to deal with.[/quote]

Not PP but: They are, you can be a nurse with an associate's degree, just like paras. You are assisting the doctors, just like paras assist teachers. They are both valuable
 and deserve better pay.
The difference is nurses to get to a higher position within their practice like nurse practitioner, some nursing positions you need a masters and those are paid way higher.

It's not even just the paperwork, it's the idea that I should know how to help children with trauma, the social worker is not always available. The same workshop DCPS does every year wasn't helpful. (It's the same thing re-worded)  I can't just tell parents their child would greatly benefit from weekly therapy.

'Teacher' encompasses may roles and truly I think if that was acknowledged and teacher programs in university acknowledged that and expanded on that. I went to an excellent school but I still minored in social work because the program didn't touch on behavioral intervention and trauma, etc. enough.
Even after my masters, I felt I wanted more.

I honestly think professions like teachers and nurses should absolutely be paid as much as mid earning lawyer (150k), like lawyers the practice of education is always changing, there's always new things to learn.

I imagine if this field was treated like the rigorous field it is and compensated as such we'd attract better teachers. My opinion I think entry should be masters and everyone should have to start as a para or assistant teacher if they are in the bachelor's phase.

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