Anonymous wrote:I feel like some of the teachers here confused DCPS parents with private school parents. Your salaries are similar to many of ours.

Yes, 100k is the average. And I don’t think the top teacher salary should be average. There a loads of DCPS parents who make way over 100k, I am one of them.

I feel like some of the teachers here confused DCPS parents with private school parents. Your salaries are similar to many of ours.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for your concern about teachers salaries! Indeed, it’s tremendously challenging to support your family in DC on a teacher’s salary. We all wish we could avoid taking second jobs to get by!

As you have learned during the pandemic, spending the day with your 1-3 children can be exhausting! I know you empathize with teachers spending their day with 25-30 children! And then going to a second job!

Here’s something you can do to help reduce teachers’ dependence on second jobs: email the Chancellor and Mayor and demand an increase in teachers salary!
Mayor Bowser eom@dc.gov
Chancellor Ferebee lewis.ferebee@dc.gov

Until covid, teachers had been alone in their advocacy for a wage increase. Please know how much your children’s teachers appreciate your support!

DC has the highest paid public school teachers in the country. We have art teachers who make six figures. They make more than college professors.

I’d say the bigger problem is teachers wanting to continue to collect their full salaries even as they refuse to go to work.

This argument is cherry picking and it shows your vindictive nature.

Washington DC is the 3rd-5th most expensive place to live IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

NOT ALL TEACHERS MAKE 100k, and stop saying 6 figures like it could be in the upper or even middle rage. 100k-117k is the last salary step, it takes years and years to get there and every year the cost of living goes up.


https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/washington-d-c


The bigger problem is snooty and vindictive people who look down on teachers. Teachers were tutoring before this and will continue to because they deserve the best quality of life. Why should teachers not be paid like a doctor or lawyer?

School? Many teachers have a masters degree. Also there are many jobs that make way over 130k with just 1 degree.
Demand? There is a shortage of teachers across the nation, including DCPS.

The truth is teachers aren’t respected very much and this pandemic sure sheds a light on what some of you really think.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for your concern about teachers salaries! Indeed, it’s tremendously challenging to support your family in DC on a teacher’s salary. We all wish we could avoid taking second jobs to get by!

As you have learned during the pandemic, spending the day with your 1-3 children can be exhausting! I know you empathize with teachers spending their day with 25-30 children! And then going to a second job!

Here’s something you can do to help reduce teachers’ dependence on second jobs: email the Chancellor and Mayor and demand an increase in teachers salary!
Mayor Bowser eom@dc.gov
Chancellor Ferebee lewis.ferebee@dc.gov

Until covid, teachers had been alone in their advocacy for a wage increase. Please know how much your children’s teachers appreciate your support!

DC has the highest paid public school teachers in the country. We have art teachers who make six figures. They make more than college professors.

I’d say the bigger problem is teachers wanting to continue to collect their full salaries even as they refuse to go to work.

That’s such an interesting point! So everyone working from home isn’t really working? Or just teachers? I feel that really diminishes what a majority of our citizenry is doing right now. Why are you so angry?

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for your concern about teachers salaries! Indeed, it’s tremendously challenging to support your family in DC on a teacher’s salary. We all wish we could avoid taking second jobs to get by!

As you have learned during the pandemic, spending the day with your 1-3 children can be exhausting! I know you empathize with teachers spending their day with 25-30 children! And then going to a second job!

Here’s something you can do to help reduce teachers’ dependence on second jobs: email the Chancellor and Mayor and demand an increase in teachers salary!
Mayor Bowser eom@dc.gov
Chancellor Ferebee lewis.ferebee@dc.gov

Until covid, teachers had been alone in their advocacy for a wage increase. Please know how much your children’s teachers appreciate your support!

DC has the highest paid public school teachers in the country. We have art teachers who make six figures. They make more than college professors.

I’d say the bigger problem is teachers wanting to continue to collect their full salaries even as they refuse to go to work.

Thank you all for your concern about teachers salaries! Indeed, it’s tremendously challenging to support your family in DC on a teacher’s salary. We all wish we could avoid taking second jobs to get by!

As you have learned during the pandemic, spending the day with your 1-3 children can be exhausting! I know you empathize with teachers spending their day with 25-30 children! And then going to a second job!

Here’s something you can do to help reduce teachers’ dependence on second jobs: email the Chancellor and Mayor and demand an increase in teachers salary!
Mayor Bowser eom@dc.gov
Chancellor Ferebee lewis.ferebee@dc.gov

Until covid, teachers had been alone in their advocacy for a wage increase. Please know how much your children’s teachers appreciate your support!

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Anonymous wrote:My neighbor is a teacher who works 10 hour days at her school, spends most of her Sunday doing school planning, and tutors three times a week. How is working your tail off suddenly a bad thing in some of your pathetic eyes??? You’re grasping at anything now to make teachers your villains. Some of you have really deteriorated mentally during this self isolation period...

Your neighbor is not who people are complaining about. It’s people like the poster upthread who works not a minute over contracted hours so she can soend hours everyday tutoring, while seeing her on husband and kids somewhere in there. But it’s all good because her DCPS students make dome progress during the year. Clearly her tutoring $$ are higher priority than her DCPS students.

Do you put in a lot of unpaid OT at your middle income job? Somehow I doubt it. Lots of hypocrites in this thread.

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor is a teacher who works 10 hour days at her school, spends most of her Sunday doing school planning, and tutors three times a week. How is working your tail off suddenly a bad thing in some of your pathetic eyes??? You’re grasping at anything now to make teachers your villains. Some of you have really deteriorated mentally during this self isolation period...

Your neighbor is not who people are complaining about. It’s people like the poster upthread who works not a minute over contracted hours so she can soend hours everyday tutoring, while seeing her on husband and kids somewhere in there. But it’s all good because her DCPS students make dome progress during the year. Clearly her tutoring $$ are higher priority than her DCPS students.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are the reason schools are closed, and they have an obvious financial incentive to keep them closed. They collect their full salary regardless of whether schools are open and keeping them closed drives up the price of private tutoring which our kids now all need because distance learning is so ineffectual. If schools were open, no one would hire teachers as tutors.

Some teachers have to carry two jobs in order to make ends meet. It's disgusting and very classist of you to assume that somehow teachers should not be allowed to pursue their own self-interest (or perhaps even their own survival) in these uncertain times. You should examine your own class privilege and your obvious bias against middle/working class people.

DP: DCPS salaries are not skimpy like teachers’ salaries of the past. Salaries have been raised over the past decade so that teachers don’t have to work multiple jobs “to survive.”

Typical upper class bigoted view: you think their working class salary is acceptable (but way less than you make) so therefore you feel comfortable condemning their attempts to make more money on the side, on their own free time. Disgusting. The class struggle is real.

Nope. I didn’t say teachers shouldn’t aim to live well. I rejected the assertion that DCPS teachers “have to work two jobs to make ends meet” or “to survive.” My point is just that the “teachers are so horribly underpaid” thing doesn’t work anymore here — which is a good thing!

And talk about bigoted. You make wild assumptions about how much I make with zero information.

Do you forget that many of us in DC work for the federal government or non-profits and make similar salaries to teachers?

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Anonymous wrote:The reason it rubs you the wrong way is because it’s a clear conflict of interest. If a teacher can make $80 an hour (as one teacher I spoke to told me they are getting) private tutoring, they have obvious incentives to divert attention and planning towards that.

But this is America - for a country with no real culture, the one thing that is undeniably American is the ability for people to exploit moments like this for financial gain.

It bothers me because I’m sure kids will pay the price, but then again, having attempted to teach for 3 months and realizing how hard it is, if my 5th grade teacher moonlights and gets an extra $100K by milking someone, I’m kind of the view “good for you”.

Nobody is making $100k tutoring. They still have day jobs. They’re not teaching pods. If they can work 5 hours a week on evenings making a little extra cash, what’s the problem?

What happens when some of those teachers eventually get sick from making money off their private pod? Do they still get to call in sick? Can they still collect sick pay from the public school? How is that OK?

^^ Also, why should the public school class have to suffer because of a teacher's greed to make money on the side? Wasn't the whole damn point of 100% DL to make sure teachers don't get sick to ensure continuity of operations?!

Greed to make money on the side?

If we were being paid even 40k tax free I still wouldn’t call it greed. There’s been plenty of articles and research done on high quality living in DC. You need to make 130k. Teachers cap out at about 100k. We all want to live a high quality and expensive life.

Greed...I can’t stop laughing. You probably think Trump is an angel and other corrupt silver spoons.

If heaven forbid you get sick from your private pod, you will be out for weeks if not months. Your regular students will suffer massively with their teacher out. If it's not that much money to begin with, why even risk it?

Classic case of chasing private profits while socializing risk.

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Here's reason #482312 why privAte tutoring is sleazy as he'll right now.

My neighbor is a teacher who works 10 hour days at her school, spends most of her Sunday doing school planning, and tutors three times a week. How is working your tail off suddenly a bad thing in some of your pathetic eyes??? You’re grasping at anything now to make teachers your villains. Some of you have really deteriorated mentally during this self isolation period...

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are the reason schools are closed, and they have an obvious financial incentive to keep them closed. They collect their full salary regardless of whether schools are open and keeping them closed drives up the price of private tutoring which our kids now all need because distance learning is so ineffectual. If schools were open, no one would hire teachers as tutors.

Some teachers have to carry two jobs in order to make ends meet. It's disgusting and very classist of you to assume that somehow teachers should not be allowed to pursue their own self-interest (or perhaps even their own survival) in these uncertain times. You should examine your own class privilege and your obvious bias against middle/working class people.

DP: DCPS salaries are not skimpy like teachers’ salaries of the past. Salaries have been raised over the past decade so that teachers don’t have to work multiple jobs “to survive.”

Typical upper class bigoted view: you think their working class salary is acceptable (but way less than you make) so therefore you feel comfortable condemning their attempts to make more money on the side, on their own free time. Disgusting. The class struggle is real.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are the reason schools are closed, and they have an obvious financial incentive to keep them closed. They collect their full salary regardless of whether schools are open and keeping them closed drives up the price of private tutoring which our kids now all need because distance learning is so ineffectual. If schools were open, no one would hire teachers as tutors.

Some teachers have to carry two jobs in order to make ends meet. It's disgusting and very classist of you to assume that somehow teachers should not be allowed to pursue their own self-interest (or perhaps even their own survival) in these uncertain times. You should examine your own class privilege and your obvious bias against middle/working class people.

DP: DCPS salaries are not skimpy like teachers’ salaries of the past. Salaries have been raised over the past decade so that teachers don’t have to work multiple jobs “to survive.”

So you believe that teachers shouldn’t be ‘wealthy?’ They don’t deserve to live in a nice house, condo, etc without a husband or wife?
Or that they shouldn’t be able to pay off their student loans sooner rather than later? That’s rich.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers are the reason schools are closed, and they have an obvious financial incentive to keep them closed. They collect their full salary regardless of whether schools are open and keeping them closed drives up the price of private tutoring which our kids now all need because distance learning is so ineffectual. If schools were open, no one would hire teachers as tutors.

Some teachers have to carry two jobs in order to make ends meet. It's disgusting and very classist of you to assume that somehow teachers should not be allowed to pursue their own self-interest (or perhaps even their own survival) in these uncertain times. You should examine your own class privilege and your obvious bias against middle/working class people.

DP: DCPS salaries are not skimpy like teachers’ salaries of the past. Salaries have been raised over the past decade so that teachers don’t have to work multiple jobs “to survive.”

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are the reason schools are closed, and they have an obvious financial incentive to keep them closed. They collect their full salary regardless of whether schools are open and keeping them closed drives up the price of private tutoring which our kids now all need because distance learning is so ineffectual. If schools were open, no one would hire teachers as tutors.

Some teachers have to carry two jobs in order to make ends meet. It's disgusting and very classist of you to assume that somehow teachers should not be allowed to pursue their own self-interest (or perhaps even their own survival) in these uncertain times. You should examine your own class privilege and your obvious bias against middle/working class people.