No raise for teachers & Judges have to retire @ 70 years of age

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I voted no because a teacher told me to. They are worried about the State stealing from the retirement fund and the raise is the bait.

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This should tell you all you need to know about how "underpaid" teachers are.

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This should tell you all you need to know about how "underpaid" teachers are.

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They’re actually one of the most underpaid professionals in our country. Considering their responsibilities, what they’re tasked with and do (and deal with) on a daily basis, and what they’re paid, it’s a wonder we have anyone left who still wants to do it.

There are some really bad educators out there. But you won’t improve the caliber of candidate, or the level of motivation for entering the field, by grossly underpaying the people who perform the job.

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Maybe if they word an amendment that reduces the excessive salaries paid to parish school administrators and apply the savings to teacher salaries might we see it pass.

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That is probably one of the central issues with education today.

Some school systems have created unnecessary levels of administrators and central office personnel. Some school systems have multiple assistant superintendents, multiple supervisor positions, and several assistant principals and master teacher programs that remove educators from the classroom and place them in administrative or supervisory roles instead of teaching.

On top of that you have some of these roles that being filled with DEI in mind and some of these people do not have the best interests of the students in mind. They are there just to line their pockets in their new 6 figure role and implement narcissistic tasks so they can feel important in their role.

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I voted no because a teacher told me to. They are worried about the State stealing from the retirement fund and the raise is the bait.

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I voted no because:

-This would have been one-time money. You can't fund a raise on one-time money.

-The programs these funds go towards would then go unfunded and the cries would have been about how they are such a tragic loss for the state that our children will suffer for it so we need to come up with a new way to fund them (read: new taxes).

-BESE can already allocate that money to pay if it chooses to. So far, it hasn't. Teachers should be focusing on BESE for the fix instead of voters.

Katy ISD pays teachers with 0 years of experience $66k.
At 5 years of experience they get paid $71k with a $5k a year retention bonus. That's plenty, and doesn't include TRS.

Teachers can choose their school districts, which principals they want to work for or don't, and what grades they want to teach.

Schools and parents never consider the strings of taking federal money for SPED kids of all stripes. Oh, the school gets an extra $5k a year for a SPED kid, but then has to hire a paraprofessional for every three of them? But they "won" money, right? And then you have to have special curriculum coordinators for every so many of these SPED kids, etc. But you got that $5k per head. Yay?

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How many hours per year do they work?

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Teachers?

50 hours per week give or take X 38 weeks.

Hourly, it’s a very good paying job.


Coaches, on the other hand, get wrecked. We are talking 3-4 bucks an hour (or less…depending upon the sport).

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Maybe if they word an amendment that reduces the excessive salaries paid to parish school administrators and apply the savings to teacher salaries might we see it pass.

School administrators are robbing school systems blind!!

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Some school system needs to challenge the "Jindal Law" regarding the currently held belief that school boards have no say in the hiring of personnel. It is my opinion that the law keeps a school board member from going to the superintendent and attempting to leverage their position to hire friends and family. It doesn't mean that the school board can't set a cap on administrators, decide which positions will exist, etc. At some point a school board will need to make a decision and let the courts sort it out. Until that happens these administrators will just keep hiring people to do their job for them.

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Katy ISD pays teachers with 0 years of experience $66k. At 5 years of experience they get paid $71k with a $5k a year retention bonus. That's plenty, and doesn't include TRS.

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so you cherry picked one of the highest paying districts in Texas, not even Louisiana for your argument then you top it with this whopper

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Teachers can choose their school districts, which principals they want to work for or don't, and what grades they want to teach.

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I’ve never read a larger pile of horse shite. So a teacher picks their principal? Never heard that! I guess every football coach in the state should just go work at John Curtis it’s that easy! And hell why stop at teachers why not apply your logic to all professions. Lawyers can pick any law firm they want according to your logic. A doctor can pick any hospital or dr office to work at and any field of medicine according to your logic what a retarded arse take.

Yeah every human has a choice for what job they have. Hell a teacher can choose to stop teaching if they want, many do, but to act like people are choosing to work in, oh I don’t know let’s pick a place, Arcadia Louisiana because that’s where they want to be is insane. I don’t have a dog in this fight, don’t care what teachers Louisiana make, but your whole argument is beyond stupid

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Katy ISD pays teachers with 0 years of experience $66k.
At 5 years of experience they get paid $71k with a $5k a year retention bonus. That's plenty, and doesn't include TRS.

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This is the problem for Louisiana. Teacher pay in Louisiana is about 20k less across the board. Katy is a little more expensive but not that much more.