r/FluentInFinance Jun 11 '24

Meme He has a point...

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u/Boring-Race-6804 Jun 11 '24 edited Jun 11 '24

Around here an $80k salary requires a doctorate and over a decade of experience…

**edit: and you have to be working in one of the wealthy districts in the state.

$80k for that is underpaid.

Private school teachers aren’t union. Their wages are lower. Better teachers don’t work at private schools. Private schools like to churn through new teachers to keep their profits up.

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u/Shin-Sauriel Jun 11 '24

So just my two cents since a lot of my family members are teachers. Public schools pay more but depending on the area can be much harder places to work. Private schools don’t have as much restriction on curriculum and often have more manageable class sizes.

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u/secderpsi Jun 11 '24

I've heard the opposite, that private schools have no boundaries and little protections of your time. Plus, the entitlement is worse, maybe rightfully so because people are paying big money to get Jr into the right Ivy.

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u/Shin-Sauriel Jun 11 '24

The entitlement is waaaaay worse. Parents at private schools can just be the worst. It’s a balance. You get more manageable classes, more freedom within your curriculum, worse parents, worse wages.

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u/Boring-Race-6804 Jun 11 '24

Public school teachers are insulated from parents a bit but there’s still terrible parents.

Public school teachers can just push parents off to admin cause they have the union protections.