LA Legislature to address Teacher Shortage using Retirees earning 50%.

Teachers are paid an average of $51,666 in Louisiana.

I stopped crying right there.

This appears to be WAE work, meaning that the retirees draw their retirement AND draw a new check from the state.

If someone is retired from teaching but still needs money, getting effectively 45K a year taxed at 15K a year isn’t bad. (State retirement is exempt from state taxes, so only the new income is taxable by the state)

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LA Legislature to address Teacher Shortage using Retirees earning 50%.

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A lot of teachers suck in Louisiana. And I'm not saying that teachers are underpaid. But it's pretty clear that Louisiana isn't always getting the best and brightest for this line of work.

If Louisiana paid them substantially more than the surrounding states, people would actually move here to apply to local jobs. Administrators would have a choice in applicants and wouldn't have to rely on just anyone to fill a position. And Louisiana has a lot of crappy teachers just filling positions because they need a body.

If there's a shortage, they really should look at hiking teacher pay.

Well these POS work 9 months get 3 months off and then have shitty unions that don’t care about kids and push political agendas while recruiting our kids. frick teachers, tell them to get a real job!

Are they recruiting properly for teaching positions?

IMO they need to offer competitive pay and then start recruiting out of the bigger midwestern Universities. Poach other state's college graduates to come here somehow. Maybe offer a 5+ year loan payment bonus for them. Advertise that places like Zachary, Prarieville, or Covington offer a good quality of life, solid schools, easy access to gulf coast beaches, and almost no winter weather.

You'd be surprised how far the latter part of that statement would go in places like Illinois or Wisconsin. Both of those states have very good schools and pay their teachers very well.

"Come do the job of a full-time teacher for way, way less money!"

I think that strategy has a poor chance of success, but what do I know?

K-12 education is not driven by free market forces like college is.
IE, a physics prof is making more than an Eng lit prof at the same college. Not true in a H.S.

So, if a really good HS chemistry teacher retires and collects pension and the only replacement is a moron the logical thing to do is rehire the old guy and let him keep his pension + salary. You're not losing money compared to hiring the moron.

The teacher shortage is less about pay and more about bureaucratic bs that teachers have to deal with in order to teach. Teaching children is already not an easy job, but all of the extra stuff they’re tasked with is such a pain that turnover is a big problem. The longer tenured teachers tough it out to retirement, but the younger ones get burnt out quickly and often leave.

Where pay is a problem is in shortages for specific kinds of teachers. The shortage is far more dire for hs math and science teachers than it is for elementary education, ela, or for history teachers. One reason is that they cannot offer to pay more for one type of hs teacher than another despite there being a substantial gap in the number of qualified interested persons to teach those subjects. It’s a lot more difficult to get certified as an AP level physics or chemistry teacher than it is to teach English or social studies, but they’re paid the same. Thus, there’s a perpetual shortage of those teachers with more specialized qualifications.

JBE’s wife was a teacher. Everything’s gonna be alright.