I do want to wonder about how little teachers are paid. Locally, around the time we moved to California 17 years ago, there was a big issue about teachers, and the paper dug up salary information for local school districts. The median pay for teachers was about $70K, for less than 12 months work. If that was the median, imagine what mo…
I do want to wonder about how little teachers are paid. Locally, around the time we moved to California 17 years ago, there was a big issue about teachers, and the paper dug up salary information for local school districts. The median pay for teachers was about $70K, for less than 12 months work. If that was the median, imagine what most were making by the time they retire. At the time, a social worker with similar training was generally paid significantly less.
This is in a semi-rural county on the periphery of the SF Bay Area, for context.
I'm NOT against teachers, but I think we need to find out how much a particular district pays before automatically assuming the stereotype of being underpaid is always true. Even in our area, some districts paid significantly more than others.
I do want to wonder about how little teachers are paid. Locally, around the time we moved to California 17 years ago, there was a big issue about teachers, and the paper dug up salary information for local school districts. The median pay for teachers was about $70K, for less than 12 months work. If that was the median, imagine what most were making by the time they retire. At the time, a social worker with similar training was generally paid significantly less.
This is in a semi-rural county on the periphery of the SF Bay Area, for context.
I'm NOT against teachers, but I think we need to find out how much a particular district pays before automatically assuming the stereotype of being underpaid is always true. Even in our area, some districts paid significantly more than others.