re: EBR teachers receive $8500/year raise. 6th highest in state…

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Not enough.

Teachers should be some of the most valuable people in society.

Raise the pay to close to 100k. The field will start attracting more competent people

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No it won’t. It’ll attract the same thing that the plants attract. A bunch of dumbasses because the pay is so high and DEI will kick in. You people have no idea what’s really employed in plants. If teachers salaries go up to anywhere near that level it will attract the same idiots

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I'm stuck on this because I'm a MSGC transplant. In my hometown, K-12 schools were and still are excellent. Kids there just go to a good public school, and they do it for much less cost per student than EBRP. That EBRP only has something comparable to what I grew up with via competitive magnet programs or private schools just sucks.

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This is the unfortunate reality of most major cities across the country. In my opinion over the next 20 to 30 years you're going to see significant growth in private schools across the country.

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Teachers teach 10 months then go to required unpaid professional development throughout the summer.

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I'm talking about the people that taught me in what was DoDDs.

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I understood what you were saying but since you referenced WP I wasn't sure if the DoDDs you referenced were at WP. I was fishing for a potential mutual connection.

Additionally 75% of instructors at WP are military which obviously has higher pay plus benefits. This is why I wanted to clarify if you were referencing civilian instructors. I was shocked to learn that there was a huge pay discrepancy between Military and Civilian instructors.

ETA: I looked at the pdf and see that it is pay scales similar to military pay structure. Here's the problem with the $76K starting salary that you referenced I seriously doubt there are any instructors at West Point that have a BS and zero experience. I only had two civilian instructors (academic) and both were PhDs which starts at $112K. This also puts civilian pay in line with their military counter parts. I would believe that at a minimum if you're a civilian teaching at WP (academic) you have a PhD.

I just remembered that I had a gymnastics instructor (Phys Ed) that was a cheerleader from U Tenn (fine as frog hair) that would fit your scenario so I guess they do exist.

I apologize for hijacking your analogy with regards to BR teacher pay; I was more interested in figuring out the WP side.