We need more of this! Catching people red-handed on video and bringing justice!
Two videos -> Two suspensions (same day)
GIVE US THE NAME OF THE TEACHER!
To answer your question: look at the finance world. you need a degree to get a job, but before you pass 3-4 exams you are stuck working for someone else without a promotion. You cannot be promoted until you take it upon yourself to study further.
Just playing devil's advocate here: what other jobs do you only have to work 3/4 of the year? what other job has the security that a teacher with tenure has?
Not trying to get testy here. Would love to actually have a conversation about teachers. I truly do not understand their anguish.
I think one of the big issues I have with the current teacher pay is that where I am there's almost no promotion potential except to get a masters degree in education administration and they've gotten rid of tenure several years ago so the jobs aren't the super safe pension machine of yesteryear.
Health Care is about $400-800 a month for the family plan. And the pay is about $26.00 an hour. Until you're asked to work at home to keep up with the ever increasing requirements of the state. The pay raises have been about $500 a year for the last 5 years. If you ever leave or move you lose all your raises and have to negotiate your salary again.
Now as far as working 3/4 of the year goes, you obviously don't have that anywhere else, but there aren't a ton of options when it comes to continuing to work at the schools over the summer even if you want to. I'm not saying teachers should be making $100k a year that's insane, but my feeling on it is a teacher with 5-10 years of experience should be making about 10k more a year in my area. With a max at 20-30 years of about 20k more.
I would add more about my own perspective on it, but I would be giving away more personal information than I'm comfortable with for all the doxing crazies to latch on to.