Anonymous wrote:IME, the teachers who are most upset about money are those closer to retirement. They’re unmarried or married to a LMC/working class guy and they’ve just realized that their retirement won’t be as nice as they were expecting. Or it’s farther away than they’d hoped. They might have parents who were in elder care and reality is coming crashing down. If this describes your audience (and of course I’m guessing a bit), then It wasn’t about you. It was about their savings.

To those of you who said monitors are cheap, you are very much in a bubble. Many families do not have $200 for a single monitor, much less two.

Anonymous wrote:Teachers have perfected complaining. they get more time off than anyone else that works and have shorter work days and there pay reflects that.

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Anonymous wrote: DD teacher is openly bragging about not retuning next SY to teach in the ME to make non-taxable income. That’s the current state of education affairs right now.

Hey, if she can make more money doing her job, she should do it. I would add that disrespect from students in the ME is reportedly pretty bad in private schools. But hey, disrespect is awful here too. Why not make more? Good for her.

Anonymous wrote: DD teacher is openly bragging about not retuning next SY to teach in the ME to make non-taxable income. That’s the current state of education affairs right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it okay to be money motivated as a teacher? I'm finding a disconnect at times. I entered later in life and I'm married to a high earner. Some of my co workers are not.
I brought up the fact that I like to lesson plan at home because I have 2 monitors. This was apparently offensive and there were all these emotional comments made to ease the pain of me stating that fact towards my co workers. This is just a small example.

There are times that I regret not pursuing teaching as a career, then I read things like this and I know I could not have survived a work environment where my colleagues get emotional over the fact that I might have two monitors at home.

There are great reasons to avoid teaching. It has a terrible work/life balance, especially during the early years. Disrespect from children and adults is an everyday occurrence.

But colleagues’ jealousy over an $80 monitor? That’s not a thing. I’m guessing the OP is misreading her colleagues.

I’m a teacher and I’m definitely not wealthy. I have two monitors. I’ve never thought of that as a sign of wealth.

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Anonymous wrote:I work half time at a school and I definitely hide/downplay the fact that I work entirely by choice. Several times I has been asked if I would consider full time and I have to make up lame excuses why not that sound better than “no thanks I don’t want to work full time.”

I’m with you! I quit teaching because I didn’t want to do it anymore. I don’t need the money. I have a trust fund. I can’t tell that to other teachers. I had to lie to everyone including admin when I left, especially when I didn’t have another job lined up.