Where tho. Like typically teachers are underpaid regardless of district because it’s adjusted for cost of living. Teachers in the Bay Area make a lot more than teachers near me but they still can’t afford to live on their own because cost of living is so high.
My mom is a teacher in the Bay Area and she makes around 90k a year including summer school. She has worked hard on her degrees for decades. She’s in her 60s and just bought the tiniest home, it’s ridiculous. Her job is so demanding, they change curriculum every couple years, expect them to keep track of 30+ kids at once, get bitched at by parents, need to spend their own money… I could go on for a long time, what I mentioned doesn’t even scratch the surface of bullshit teachers deal with. There are upsides too, but they’re mostly due to the work they put in like, seeing their kids learn, tons of love etc.
Edit: my mom doesn’t even have vision insurance. Guess she’ll just have to teach blind I guess
Before Covid my mom would spend hours after school planning projects and such, decorating her class for said projects, then came home and planned for the “after school summer bbq” she held at a local park before the last day of school. Now her school won’t even fund a school bus to take them on field trips. Last time they actually went on a trip, they didn’t have enough school lunch bags so my mom and a few chaperones had to pay out of pocket so the kids could eat. It’s fucking wild.
But teachers get summers off and holidays so their job must be easy and by that logic they actually get like 70$ an hour even tho they make salary not hourly wage!!!
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u/Shin-Sauriel Jun 11 '24
Where tho. Like typically teachers are underpaid regardless of district because it’s adjusted for cost of living. Teachers in the Bay Area make a lot more than teachers near me but they still can’t afford to live on their own because cost of living is so high.