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DryIce677 t1_jbt4o3o wrote

Much, much better pay. I am going to school to be a teacher in PA. I should not make more as a part-time jewelry salesperson than I would as a full-time teacher, but I do. I made nearly $40K as a part-time worker, and that is more than the starting pay for many schools in southwestern PA.

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hsavvy t1_jbu8e43 wrote

Which is so fucked given that there were teachers making six figures in the school district I grew up in (lower merion)

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ButtBlock t1_jbvqei7 wrote

I think teachers should be paid six figures. Should be a high compensation high accountability job. Like nursing or being a doctor.

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pocketbookashtray t1_jbvuqo2 wrote

Teachers unions will never agree to high accountability. You can’t fire teachers.

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Superb_View_6430 t1_jbxnjvr wrote

This is a myth - teachers can be fired. Administrators need detailed records showing why the teacher should be fired. It’s a pain in the butt, but if a teacher is bad and the admin wants to get rid of them, they need to collect evidence.
The Union is there to make sure this happens and it’s not just random. The problem is, many administrators are just as overwhelmed as teachers and simply don’t have the time or energy to do it. It’s a systemic problem…bad teachers slip through cracks just like bad students slip through cracks, just like bad workers in the private sector slip through cracks. It’s usually because someone at the top is too focused on something else to notice or decides it’s not worth the effort.

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pocketbookashtray t1_jbxwbki wrote

A simple fix is to install cameras in every classroom that parents, administrators and taxpayers can watch.

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Superb_View_6430 t1_jbxx4kb wrote

Yeah - it would be interesting to see the hoops parents jump through to claim “my child would never do that” while watching it play out. One of the most brilliant moments I ever saw was when a student abused a bus driver with a string of expletives - the administrator marched the student into his office, called the students mother, handed him the phone and said “tell your mother what you just said to that bus driver”. No more plausible deniability when you hear it out of your child’s own mouth.

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pocketbookashtray t1_jbysbuv wrote

Or when a kid tries to claim a teacher inappropriately touched them. “Let’s go to the replay”.

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ButtBlock t1_jbvqb1t wrote

I have to remind myself that 40k is literally equivalent to 29k when I graduated college after accounting for inflation. The idea that we’re paying teachers that is appalling. No shit no one’s signing up.

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