Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher who feels adequately compensated.
Yesterday I fixed a toilet, picked up trash outside of my school, swept my classroom, provided my own paper and toner, ran a club during my lunch ‘break,’ contacted 15 parents, graded 100+ papers, and taught the children.
My school does not have enough teachers and for several years in a row multiple teachers have had to absorb kids from other groups.
We could be paid less if DC punished children more. The only thing keeping me in a place where I’ve been punched is $$.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We just got our school budget. Our librarian makes $140k. Most teachers make about $130k and they work for 9 months per year and they get a pension.
I am happy for them but people have to stop with pressuring parents to give them gift cards, valentine presents and all the talk about them not being well paid.
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This is not valid in other states. I am just talking about DCPS and probably DC metro and other big cities.
That’s it 🙂
Yup. I have 20 years experience and am in a senior role at my large nonprofit and make $126. We have had some lovely, lovely teachers and assistants when my kids were at a title 1 elementary, and I was generous with the gifts. But I no longer go overboard or give gifts to individual teachers in middle and hs. They are professionals!
Do you get $126 gross pay, or is $126 allocated for your salary, any benefits your company employer pays, subs if you are absent etc . . .?
Because a line item in a budget is not a salary.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We just got our school budget. Our librarian makes $140k. Most teachers make about $130k and they work for 9 months per year and they get a pension.
I am happy for them but people have to stop with pressuring parents to give them gift cards, valentine presents and all the talk about them not being well paid.
By
This is not valid in other states. I am just talking about DCPS and probably DC metro and other big cities.
That’s it 🙂
Yup. I have 20 years experience and am in a senior role at my large nonprofit and make $126. We have had some lovely, lovely teachers and assistants when my kids were at a title 1 elementary, and I was generous with the gifts. But I no longer go overboard or give gifts to individual teachers in middle and hs. They are professionals!
Anonymous wrote:There are public high schools in DC where less than 5% of kids operate at grade level and in some subject, no kid operates at grade level. The teachers at these schools have only decades of failure to show for their time there. And yet they get paid $120k+ and even get raises. Take a geometry teacher who has worked at a school for a decade during which time not one student was proficient in geometry. She would have made close to a million dollars, w/o teaching any student anything. These teachers have essentially made careers out of stealing money from DC taxpayers.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We just got our school budget. Our librarian makes $140k. Most teachers make about $130k and they work for 9 months per year and they get a pension.
I am happy for them but people have to stop with pressuring parents to give them gift cards, valentine presents and all the talk about them not being well paid.
By
This is not valid in other states. I am just talking about DCPS and probably DC metro and other big cities.
That’s it 🙂
Yup. I have 20 years experience and am in a senior role at my large nonprofit and make $126. We have had some lovely, lovely teachers and assistants when my kids were at a title 1 elementary, and I was generous with the gifts. But I no longer go overboard or give gifts to individual teachers in middle and hs. They are professionals!
A 20 year teacher with a masters makes 112. https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/page_content/attachments/WTU%20FY20-FY23.pdf
I don't think I can put into words how maddening this thread is
My relative has less experience works in DCPS and makes more than $112k a year (according to her and another relative who looked up her salary because they could not believe what she said). She has been at DCPS less than 10 years. She brags about her 6 figure salary, not having to do lesson plans and talks about how her school underperforms. She lives in DC because she says she gets extra $ for living and working in DC. She also definitely gets months off in the summer. She told family she would never send her own children to her school. She got them into a very nice charter.
I would NEVER keep my job if I underperformed, yet some students can't read or do math and yet the teachers and administrators stay. My relative coasts and knows she can because she has a forever job, can retire pretty young with a giant pension paid for by the taxpayer until she dies. It is not sustainable.
I want good, great, and excellent teachers to be paid a lot more, but I think we need to get rid of the pensions and switch over to 401s. I also think bad and mediocre teachers should leave like how any underperforming employee would go through a process to be let go. When they retire in their mid 50s with a 6 figure pension and live until they are 80s-100s, the taxpayer can't pay for that, it isn't sustainable, especially when many of the schools in DCPS are not very good.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We just got our school budget. Our librarian makes $140k. Most teachers make about $130k and they work for 9 months per year and they get a pension.
I am happy for them but people have to stop with pressuring parents to give them gift cards, valentine presents and all the talk about them not being well paid.
By
This is not valid in other states. I am just talking about DCPS and probably DC metro and other big cities.
That’s it 🙂
Yup. I have 20 years experience and am in a senior role at my large nonprofit and make $126. We have had some lovely, lovely teachers and assistants when my kids were at a title 1 elementary, and I was generous with the gifts. But I no longer go overboard or give gifts to individual teachers in middle and hs. They are professionals!
A 20 year teacher with a masters makes 112. https://dcps.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dcps/page_content/attachments/WTU%20FY20-FY23.pdf
I don't think I can put into words how maddening this thread is
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yes, it is unpopular to consider salaries without considering cost of living. Unpopular because it's dumb and/or disingenuous.
OP here. cost of living is not a factor here because I am comparing to people living in the same area. I make similar salaries as teacher in DC and I actually live in DC. I have 3 weeks of vacation and no pension. But I am expected to hand gift cards to teachers 3-4 times a year, plus volunteer for all kind of events, donate to the PTO and help with all kind of classroom requests.
Don’t get me wrong, I think teachers deserve their salaries but all the extra parents are expected to do is a bit over the top!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The truth is that many people would not choose to work in DCPS without the high pay.
This is absolutely the only reason I’m still in DCPS. I interviewed elsewhere and they wouldn’t come close to matching my salary so here I am. My school currently has a classroom teacher vacancy because there’s no one to pay $130k to be there.
Anonymous wrote:The truth is that many people would not choose to work in DCPS without the high pay.