re: Alexandra, VA schools closed tomorrow because 300+ teachers ask for day off

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So now we are left with teachers who go into the profession making little money

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Can we please stop saying this. A teaching degree is one of the easiest to get that requires the least actual intelligence, most teachers start around $35k a year out of college for a 9 month job with good benefits usually. Theres many degrees that would absolutely love that. Most teachers that work over the summer can easily pull in between $40-50k and still have loads of time off. Furthermore, in 10 years with a masters you can easily make $50s most places, im honestly not sure what we think we should pay them? More than engineers?

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So now we are left with teachers who go into the profession making little money, having no authority to discipline the classroom (so we get the lower quality teachers).

The education problem in this country starts and ends at home and the parenting.

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But, "it takes a village"!!!


Hence, we as a nation are now a nation of village idiots with the population and idiocy rising. "Give us your poor, tired, hungry, and uneducated to join our under educated. United we something something something", should be a new plaque for the Statue of Liberty.

Yeah, my kid isn't going to public schools. Low quality teachers.

I wonder how many in a real profession like nursing could take off en masse with little warning.

NoVa is the worst

In the Georgia school district that my parents worked in, you get a % of your highest annual salary as your retirement. You get that EVERY single year until you die. You also get the healthcare benefits to go along with it.

If you start teaching out of college (lets say 22), then you are eligible for the full retirement at 30 years, so you can retire at 52.

If you get on the track to become an administrator with a masters degree, you can get to 6 figures pretty quickly. Even more so if you go for the PhD. I think the retirement % was somewhere around 70%, so a middle school principal can retire at 52 and bring home 70k. If that person decides to get another job for the hell of it, then they can live a pretty damned good life at a relatively young age.

These numbers are based off of personal family experience. I can't speak for everyone.

My dad passed the 30 year mark and kept working as a principal while fighting cancer. When he died, the school district "retired" him and now my mom gets her teachers salary, my dad's 70% or whatever retirement off of a 6 figure salary, and she can do the 20 year retirement in a couple of years (which is a lower % than 70%, but still pretty good). So she will pull in 2 retirement checks, plus she will get my dad's social security at some point (but not her own; i believe it's one or the other).

TL;DR - if you play your cards right, you can live a very comfortable life and retire young by going the education route.

If I am the superintendent in that district I tell the teachers they can have a day this week to celebrate Women's Day.

But we are going to school the Monday of spring break.

Then give the teachers the choice.

They will not have to cancel school this week.



Oh and teacher retirement in Georgia is 60% of your annual salary. Many teachers work past 30 years because they can't afford to live on 60% of a teacher salary.

Not that this is a bad thing. I just know several teachers who stay more than 30 years.

So they basically had such a good time at the women's march that they wanted to do it again? What kind of awareness is this raising?

Every single one should be fired.

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yr veteran with a masters is making around $85 th

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I'd wager it's higher. I know teachers in NY that are north of $100k with a master's.