Florida teacher says district worker removed several pictures of "black heros" from his classroom

Oops. I'll await your apology for being wrong, yet again. Thanks in advance sport.

More than half of physicians have considered leaving medicine

"The email survey found that 55 percent of physicians reported having consider quitting the medical field in recent years, with the majority (68 percent) blaming the amount of time they must spend entering data into EHRs."

 

So let me see if I have this right. Teachers in San Fran wanted to and successfully changed a way of teaching kids to read that was the most successful Urban area in CA to one that was designed to fight social justice? All because the teachers didn't like it? Total garbage.

I am always told on Too Hot that this kind of stuff doesn't happen. I guess I'm just making up stuff again...

 

Interesting thread, admittedly anecdotal, on procedures in Sarasota

 

I think she is saying that they teach for the love of teaching and what it represents instead of money.

 

Alabama pays more for teachers than Florida? Wow... just wow.

 

Plus an extra $10k for science teachers, with another 10k on top of that if you are willing to work in a bad school. If I was willing to move to Alabama, I could be looking at a $30k increase in salary. But then I would be living in Alabama ...

 

Depending on where you fall conspiracy wise, maybe the posters exceeded the amount of flammable wall posters allowed by the fire marshal. They go through each year and tell teachers to take down a lot of their posters. But probably not the case here.

 

I’ll say this.. anyone that goes to school to be a teacher and isn’t aware of the salary scale is a complete and total maroon. Everybody know teachers are not paid well. Especially those trying to be teachers . It’s like joining the Marines and being upset your being sent over seas.
Teachers need more pay… but if you CHOOSE to become a teacher and go to school to be a teacher.. that’s on you. No whining.

 

Kids typically don't have the same reaction that adults have. Those kids are not feeling bad about themselves if they learn about slavery. I watched Roots in 10th grade and didn't feel personally responsible for slavery. Stop with the lbbie label. Just because I don't like the new republican party, doesn't change who I am.

 

Also the same for LEO, First responders, Military?

 

Yep
In fact, didn’t I reference being a Marine?

 

Obviously they all need to stfu and get back to work with no chance of raises. Ever. The ridgegator has spoken.

 

Regarding teacher pay:

Report: Teacher pay rose just $29 in nearly three decades

In the 25 years between 1996 and 2021, teachers' weekly wages rose by 0.3% in inflation-adjusted terms, increasing just $29 to an average $1,348 a week over the course of those two-plus decades. With non-teachers now making an average weekly salary of $2,009, the wage gap sits at nearly 23.5%, which represents the “largest difference” recorded by EPI since it first began tracking the data in the late 1970s.

The EPI calls this difference a “wage penalty,” which it defines as when “regression estimates suggest that teachers, all else equal, are paid less than other college graduates,” represented by a percentage difference. Should teachers ever be paid more than their non-teaching, college-educated counterparts, it would be called a “wage premium.”

The wage penalties vary widely by state, with Colorado coming in at the highest with a 36% difference in weekly salaries between teachers and non-teachers; states such as Nebraska, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maryland all hover around the midpoint of a 20% difference, while Rhode Island has the smallest teacher wage penalty at a 3.4% difference.

“In no state does the relative weekly wage of teachers equal or surpass that of their nonteaching college graduate counterparts,” the report noted in part.

 

Interesting. I wonder if that is balanced by a retirement pay premium? I suspect their retirement pay is much better than non-teacher college graduates.

 

What an obtuse take. I didn’t say anything close to that and you know it. But hey… go ahead and stir the pot.

 

I was just having fun with your post. But if you are accusing me of being obtuse, you might want to re-read your own post #149 (which i was responding to).

You compared teachers to marines following orders, and threw in gems such as “anyone not aware of the salary payscale is a complete and total moron” and “no whining”.

Sorry, but last I checked this is a free country and anyone unhappy with their pay can definitely whine all they want about it. If a person truly loves their profession that actually gives them all the more reason to want to fight to make it better.

 

They cover that in the study, the gap is smaller, but still large. The benefits are better than average, but not so much better as to make up the difference. Still a 14% gap in total compensation compared to workers with the same level of education.

 

We have a friend who retired from being an elementary school music teacher. Her retirement pay is $70,000 a year. That’s pretty nice.

I glanced at the link but didn’t study it. In comparing the incomes between teachers and non-teachers, does it factor in the teachers do not work 12 months out of the year?

 

I do not believe they factored in that teachers are furloughed for two months of the year.