re: How does this happen?

I bet all three were irresponsible with the amount of debt they accumulated.

Teachers get a bum deal as far as money goes in a lot of areas but they all knew job doesn't pay worth a damn when they were in school for it and they went through with it anyway. (As far as Louisiana goes, average teacher pay is $56k a year for 9.5 months of work, many parishes are lower than that)

Was the $1000 on supplies actually needed to teach the class or was she getting really in to decorating her classroom?

A few of my wife's teacher friends constantly spew this BS but they're all trying to live an instagram quality lifestyle

Easy fix. They can just start an OnlyFa….

Pure fabricated drama and financial stupidity.

If I went to the doctor every time I had a headache I'd probably be broke, too.

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It happens because they work a total of 8 months a year. Add all the holidays and summer days back to their work schedule, and 8 months becomes 12 months, and their pay increases by 50%...I DO NOT feel sorry for folks who do not work 12 months a year like the rest of us and don't have to be proficient at their part time job to keep it.

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you can't expect teachers to work 12 months a year because they already don't have enough vacation time or time to get personal things done.

Who are the better teachers? What matrix do you use? How about the teacher that has kids who’s parents are drug attics, who has homeless kids in their class, who have abused kids sexually in their class, who has kids with both parents in prison and live with grandma, who never has clean clothes, who never has new clothes or clothes with holes in them? You take teachers from good school and put them in the worst schools and you won’t see much difference or put teachers in worst schools in the best schools and you won’t see much difference. Parents have more to do with eduction than the teacher. They spend $32,000 on Baltimore kids and not 1 is proficient in math out of 23 HS. It’s the parents and the environment. Too many variables to blame teacher. They take what walks through the door.

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The cover where the teacher claims to spend 1000 on supplies is her own fault. I would never spend my paycheck to supply a classroom. That is the "business" responsibility.

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Yup. I know an awesome teacher. She spent $33 on supplies and does just fine. Some of the other teachers are dropping hundreds to thousands for things they don't really need.

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you cant spit in SE Louisiana without hitting a teacher married to a plant worker who are living like kings.

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This thread is going to give me an aneurism. too close to home.

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'll defend teachers a little bit on this one. It's really difficult to accurately judge teachers in a lot of the more urban public schools, especially ones that are in lower income or immigrant-heavy areas. My wife constantly has kids coming in and out of her classroom that speak zero English or parents that do not give a single frick, and yet she is expected to improve their scores to a certain level. She can have 3/4 of her class as showing vastly improved, but the last 1/4 weigh down her rating, and nothing she can do would make those kids score higher.

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If you based raises and promotions in my line of work purely based on the numbers of accounts, I'd never have gotten a raise. Certain accounts are going to always give amazing numbers due to size and relationship. Doesn't matter what salesman and engineers work there. Then there are other accounts that take hard work to get 1/10th of the revenue. Our management isn't perfect, but they have a pretty good idea of good vs. bad employees and it isn't just about the results in the numbers as they know the employee isn't always 100% responsible for that.

Why can't teachers operate that way? A great teacher can't make every student a genius. Just like a terrible teacher can luck out and have a class full of kids from great homes, who's parents spend time working with them. It's not going to be perfect as with my management structure, but it's better than treating everyone the same when they're not.

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I’m calling bullshite on the part about not being able to visit a doctor. Until recently my wife worked at a school and had the same insurance as the teachers. Their insurance is far and away better than anything offered in the private sector. And that’s in Alabama.

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Yep.
If i didn't think this was bullshite before, saying you can't afford to go to the doctor as a teacher lets me know you're a liar for sure.


Also, i see you have 20 years experience. Hopefully that's teaching experience as a state employee. Congrats on being able to retire in a few years and get paid a high percentage of your salary for the rest of your life, as well as getting that same health insurance for the rest of your life.