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Originally Posted by 33girl
In the small town I grew up in, the people in the big houses on what we called Snob Hill are, increasingly, teachers. It's kind of hard to get people to feel sorry for them having to pay union dues and their own health insurance when most of them are living better than 90% of the people in town.
However, that doesn't mean that I think they should cut the funding to the SCHOOL. Funding for education and teachers' salaries are two different things. I'll gladly pay anytime for more teachers to keep the class sizes smaller, updated textbooks, etc. I won't gladly pay, however, so the current tenured teachers are making almost 6 figures a year. I believe most people agree.
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As I stated, I am nowhere close to six figures--very, very far from it. And, I've never gotten a raise as an educator. I scrape the bottom of the barrel every. single. month. Right now, the state is still willing to cover my health care, although there was a rise in copays. If I had to pay for my health insurance, I'd have to cancel my gym membership, which is a "luxury" but something I need for my mental health. Gas prices have gone up more than 100% since I started teaching and my pay has only gone down. Those teachers living on "Snob Hill" probably have a husband in corporate america paying for most things. As my mom always tells me, a teacher's salary is a good second income, but it's very hard to live on.
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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
With that, I have already created the next reality show. Instead of wife swap, teacher swap. Get a 6 or 7 figure CEO (who they always tend to have a lot to say about education but have never set foot in a classroom) switch lives with a teacher. One week in our jobs, their attitudes would change. Now, which network to propose that too?  . Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc... |
I'm writing to MTV.
True Life: I'm a public school teacher.