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A friend of mine is a teacher. She makes around $40,000 a year. She has a bachelor's degree, a master's degree and is working on a degree in counseling (if she becomes a counselor, she'll get a raise, I think). She sometimes calls me when she is on her way to work in the morning--around 6:30--or when she is on her way home from work--around 5:00, if she doesn't have to stay later than that for faculty meetings or for practice (she helps coach the jv cheerleaders). She has an amazing amount of pressure from parents and from the school & school board administration and the biggest piles of paperwork I've ever seen. I couldn't have been a teacher, especially now that I have seen what she has to deal with every day. She really loves working with kids, though. I think that teachers, especially those who have gone to school for upper level degrees should make just as much as other people who go to school for the same length of time. She and I were discussing it a few weeks ago...this is her 8th year of college, and she plans to get her doctorate later on.
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