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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a DC resident and DCPS parent.

I appreciate the teacher's at our school and we do give thank you cards (including often gift cards) to teachers at the holidays and during teacher appreciation week.

However, I honestly get mad when I see teachers on this thread (1) downplaying how much teachers in DCPS make, and (2) expressing anger at parents for believing this is a "well paid" salary.

Here's why: I make 55k/yr. My spouse makes 105k/yr. We both have college degrees and I have a masters. I work 30 hr weeks because it enables us more flexibility as a family in terms of childcare and schedules. We both work very hard, I work in a helping profession and my spouse is a public servant. I know exactly how far a 100k salary goes in DC because we lived on close to that for a long time, including for two years after we had a kid. The oen saving grace for us is that we bought a home using an assistance program in 2014 (the program enabled us to buy a modest condo with a very small down payment) and this has enabled us to keep our housing costs consistent. It is hard. We do hope to move out of this area within the next few years because it is too expensive.

There are WAY more families in DCPS who have incomes similar to mine and my spouse's, or lower, than people who make more. This board might skew wealthier, but the city does not.

So I am going to go ahead and agree with OP that teachers in DCPS are well paid professionals, both compared to teachers in other municipalities and compared to families in DCPS. Just because there are lawyers and consultants with kids in DCPS who make many multiples of this does not mean that DCPS teachers are poorly paid. A very secure job with excellent benefits, including a pension, and a salary of 80-100k is considered a very good job by many of us in DC. Especially for someone who may have just a bachelor's degree.

Oh, and my first job out of college paid 45k. This was only 10 years ago. Now it would pay closer to 55k for full time. [b]So to the MoCo teacher upthread who is complaining about making 60k right out of school -- that is a good salary[/b]! Your issue is with municipal policies that make it hard to build affordable housing.[/quote]

Ty I came here to say this. And, like you, I also make 40k out of college and slightly more for the first ten years of my profession also just ten years ago.[/quote]

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