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Originally posted by AGDee
Teacher's salary + benefits (usually add 19% of salary for benefits)= (average, based on Master's Degreed teachers in Michigan)=$75,000
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Holy crap! I had no idea the teachers were paid that well up there. My mom has been teaching for 43 years, has her Master's degree and her guidance certification, and she is at the top of the salary scale at $52,000ish.
My mom would always take my toys that I didn't use anymore and use them in her classroom. Sometimes she would take something I still liked and use it for a couple of days, but she would always tell the kids that they had to return it to her in perfect condition b/c it belonged to her daughter.
There have been several times when my mom went out and would buy clothes for children b/c they didn't have any. A lot of my clothes that I outgrew would go to children at her school as well.
I know many mornings she would spend her own $$$ to buy the kids breakfast. She never complained though. None of those things that she purchased were mandatory - she did it because she felt bad for the kids, and it was her way of going the extra mile to make life a little bit better for them, if only for a moment.
Likewise, my father was a P.E. teacher. He purchased many footballs, basketballs and kickballs out of his own pocket for the kids to have to play with. He bought a dartboard (with the plastic darts) for the kids to play w/ when it was raining outside. A lot of the stuff he just left at the school when he retired as a donation. I mean seriously, who needs 25 kickballs lying around their house?