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  • CAN WE TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK?

    Filed at 5:53 am under by dcobranchi

    Matt Miller, writing in the NYT, must be an NEA plant. How else to explain this modest proposal?

    In many big districts, salaries start around $40,000 and top out, after 25 years, around $75,000. Under this plan, starting teachers would earn $60,000. The top performing half of teachers (and the shortage specialties) would average $90,000. The best teachers would earn up to $150,000. With the amount they could save, the best teachers of poor children could retire with $1 million in the bank.

    This is for working a 180 day school year. I have a feeling that taxpayers might just not be too keen on paying a teacher that kind of money. And if housing really is in a bubble and prices decrease dramatically (taking real estate taxes with them), you might see teachers facing the prospect of salary cuts.

    4 Responses to “CAN WE TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK?”


    Comment by
    Gene
    May 28th, 2005
    at 1:22 pm

    Does anyone know how much police chiefs are paid?


    Comment by
    Gene
    May 28th, 2005
    at 6:36 pm

    Researchers agree that one of the best things government can do to help poor children is raise teacher quality.
    *****
    Absolutely, I agree. Put the kids with those who took them from not being able to form a detectible word to mastery of a whole new language in under 3 (sometimes 2) years…walking…tieing shoes….controlling bodily functions….behaving in a socially acceptible manner…all the complicated stuff. Everything else is easy in comparison and schools actually un-teach some of the above.

    The highest quality teachers are the parents.


    Comment by
    Chad Boudreau
    May 31st, 2005
    at 1:35 pm

    Parents, (not of homeschoolers, I am aiming this at parents of kids in public school…again, I guess I’m preaching to the choir), I would only like to say that your kids are spending more time in school than they are spending with you. I have seen recent studied that stay at home moms should, if they got paid for it, earn upwards of 100,000 dollars a year. I feel like it is madness to hear that figure quoted in one sentence, and in another sentence hear that teachers, who spend more time than the parents with the children, and who, probobly, do more for raising the kids than the parents do (even stay at home ones) should earn less.

    In many big districts??? In CT, which has some of the highest teacher salaries in the nation, starting pay is certainly under 40,000. In some states, the starting pay is in the low 20’s.
    The simple fact is this: yes parents are better teachers, but if they want to give up their duty, and right, to raise their children, they should be expected to pay for it.


    Comment by
    Daryl
    May 31st, 2005
    at 1:46 pm

    I’ve got a better idea– kill the government monopoly on schooling. Then everything else will take care of itself.