Anonymous wrote:Teacher pay goes up a step every year and then there is usually an overall COLA as well (just like the feds) unless there is a major budget problem (thats been the case a loto recently unforutnatly)

The problem is as someone posted there aren't enough grades in teaching. Imagine if you had to stay on the GS-9 schedule for your entire career.

The only seperation is by education level completed and thats only usually +15, masters, and PHD

Teachers don't really attract people for money though and I'm not sure we should try to attract people interested in money either. The people that do care about money often go for administration positions

I left teaching too. However, I found the kids charming and fun. They were bratty sometimes, but they were also teenagers, so mostly they were hilarious. I found the adults intolerable. The parents were irritating, but at least I could understand that they wanted the best for their kids. I found the impossible demands of the county and the admins to be the intolerable part. Oh yes, for sure you can teach remedial algebra to a class of 47 students while having too few desks and no supplies....

I will add that the more we treated the students like delinquents and animals, the more they acted like delinquents and animals. At one point the admins locked the bathrooms and left only one open because "students were vandalizing them". Imagine a school of 2,000 and only 5 toilets for the ladies. Of course the students started to act out.... In so many matters the feelings of the students were never considered.

Anonymous wrote:Teacher pay goes up a step every year and then there is usually an overall COLA as well (just like the feds) unless there is a major budget problem (thats been the case a loto recently unforutnatly)

The problem is as someone posted there aren't enough grades in teaching. Imagine if you had to stay on the GS-9 schedule for your entire career.

The only seperation is by education level completed and thats only usually +15, masters, and PHD

Teachers don't really attract people for money though and I'm not sure we should try to attract people interested in money either. The people that do care about money often go for administration positions

Anonymous wrote:I left teaching and it wasn't about the pay it was about the bratty over coddled children. Parents today just don't know what their parenting style is doing to these kids with no accountability and leaving a teacher feeling like they will get into trouble if they dare challenge anything about their perfect little one. I don't even want to be involved in upper education because I'll just have to deal with the same entitlement mentality as these kids get older. Working in sales now at the encouragement if some of my other educator friends and am okay with it. Miss teaching but can't do it in thus current age if parenting.

left teaching and it wasn't about the pay it was about the bratty over coddled children. Parents today just don't know what their parenting style is doing to these kids with no accountability and leaving a teacher feeling like they will get into trouble if they dare challenge anything about their perfect little one. I don't even want to be involved in upper education because I'll just have to deal with the same entitlement mentality as these kids get older. Working in sales now at the encouragement if some of my other educator friends and am okay with it. Miss teaching but can't do it in thus current age if parenting.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter teaches in a self-contained middle school autism classroom. She absolutely loves it! The pay isn't great. But honestly, $50,000 for a kid only a year out of college isn't bad. She works as an education instructor at the zoo during the summer. Her yearly salary is about $58,000.

She gets to school at about 7:15 and is never back at her apartment before about 5pm. She only lives a couple of miles from her school. It is a long day, especially when you add in the parent conferences, back-to-school nights, school events,.... But she is passionate about "her kids" and has had a heart for ESE since her high school years. And she is very good at what she does! If your kid has her as a teacher, you are lucky!

Anonymous wrote:Teacher pay goes up a step every year and then there is usually an overall COLA as well (just like the feds) unless there is a major budget problem (thats been the case a loto recently unforutnatly)

The problem is as someone posted there aren't enough grades in teaching. Imagine if you had to stay on the GS-9 schedule for your entire career.

The only seperation is by education level completed and thats only usually +15, masters, and PHD

Teachers don't really attract people for money though and I'm not sure we should try to attract people interested in money either. The people that do care about money often go for administration positions

Anonymous wrote:

Fairfax County Schools tried a merit pay system back in the 1980s, so yes it has been a while.

They had the "board certified" thing that paid more. Don't know if they still do or not. l But, that has been in this century.

The National Board Certification? I don't consider that merit pay. That's really no different than getting paid more because you have a Masters degree.