Teacher quits to work at Walmart for 12k raise

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:unimpressed:In the myriad of problems with education, this is a big one. Charter schools should not be an acceptable answer to well-funded and staffed public schools. This world ain't right.
What about African centered charter schools?
 

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Friend is teaching in Dallas and will be pulling almost $70k...that's just regular elementary and a few years experience. Teachers can make good money in the right city but they work MUCH harder for their money than an equivalent salaried job.

The fact he was only making $43k tells me he's in (probably) a red state and lower COL area where Walmart has more juice than any employer. $55k for any managerial gig is not enough. People can make 2x or 3x that much and not manage a single person.
Dallas is in a RED STATE:skip:
COL across Texas is pretty much the same my guy unless you go west towards Mountain Country/Hill Country/El Paso/ down towards the Valley
In Texas it truly depends on school districts/Public vs Private, etc
I know two teachers in Houston that work for HISD and they are making pretty much the same as buddy
I know one from my Alma Mater in Alief making $58,000 and she graduated the same school as me
Then I know a teacher at my daughters private school making $80k a year
Your post speaks so matter of factly and contradicts itself in the end
Also leaves out nuance but I don’t expect much from nikkas of thecoli
Y’all just post some shyt and the other nikkas with no life experience believe and dap you:russ:
As you were:dead:
 

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Honestly the 50% and 12+ years is the biggest problem, you basically aren’t even really raising your kid when they spend that much time under another adult. We created an over reliance on using schools as day care and now the system is very overwhelmed
I agree. Thats why it is extremely important for us to take an active role in both raising and educating our children. Problem is, its difficult for a lot of people to find the necessary time to take any kind of meaningful role. Whats more, too many people just flat out suck at parenting. To the point that even if they did have the time they wouldnt bother to invest it in their children if they could. As u sagely pointed out, they pretty much send them to school just to get them out of their hair. And thats how these schools get away with such an abysmal performance.

Too many of us are satisfied just to have a "free" babysitter. Like my wife always says, closed mouths dont get fed. If we collectively as a society dont demand whats rightfully due, most teachers are not going to complain. As long as that paycheck keeps coming, they couldnt be happier doing the bare minimum. That goes for most people regardless of career choice. People no longer take pride in their work(and when u consider the unfair wages, they kinda have a point)But that is a whole other topic.
 
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Teachers are extremely important. Shame they are so underpaid.
It’s by design. They’re deliberatetly underpaid, because a teacher who’s well paid enjoys their job and does it well, which would make our public more informed and learned than is appropriate in a democracy like ours. So, public education is underfunded, denied the resources on which the annual production of a healthy and critically adept student body depends. This is also why there is such a push for vouchers and charter schools, privatized education that prioritizes profit over teaching children anything worthwhile beyond devotion to the state and its exceptionalism.

:francis:
 

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That's actually stupid :dead:

U get summer off n paid as a teacher
So u could get a whole other job if u wanted
Plus the other paid holidays

Get your testing certification and get out of teaching
Plus the retirement def better than Walmart
 
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Dallas is in a RED STATE:skip:
COL across Texas is pretty much the same my guy unless you go west towards Mountain Country/Hill Country/El Paso/ down towards the Valley
In Texas it truly depends on school districts/Public vs Private, etc
I know two teachers in Houston that work for HISD and they are making pretty much the same as buddy
I know one from my Alma Mater in Alief making $58,000 and she graduated the same school as me
Then I know a teacher at my daughters private school making $80k a year
Your post speaks so matter of factly and contradicts itself in the end
Also leaves out nuance but I don’t expect much from nikkas of thecoli
Y’all just post some shyt and the other nikkas with no life experience believe and dap you:russ:
As you were:dead:


Teaching salary is still clearly heavily correlated with red states / blue states. He was making a generalization. :comeon:


StateTeacher Salary
New York$85,889
California$83,059
Massachusetts$82,042
Connecticut$76,465
New Jersey$74,760
Washington$73,049
Maryland$70,463
Alaska$70,277
Pennsylvania$68,930
Illinois$67,049
Rhode Island$67,040
Oregon$65,125
Delaware$63,662
Hawaii$63,201
Michigan$62,170
Vermont$60,672
Ohio$59,713
New Hampshire$59,182
Wyoming$58,861
Wisconsin$58,277
Minnesota$58,221
Iowa$57,489
Georgia$57,095
Nevada$55,950
Colorado$54,935
Nebraska$54,470
Texas$54,121
Maine$54,025
North Carolina$53,940
Kentucky$53,434
North Dakota$53,434
Virginia$53,267
Oklahoma$52,397
Alabama$52,009
Utah$51,858
Tennessee$51,349
Indiana$51,119
Kansas$51,082
South Carolina$50,882
Idaho$50,757
Montana$50,721
Arizona$50,353
Louisiana$50,288
Missouri$50,019
Arkansas$49,438
Florida$48,314
South Dakota$48,204
New Mexico$47,826
West Virginia$47,681
Mississippi$45,105



Starting salary, of course, is much lower. The site said 34 states have average starting salary under $40,000 and only 2 states have average starting salary over $50,000.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, physical schools begin to start to get done away with in favor to online programs. With a possible return child labor.



With all the blatant anti-intellectualism and sexualized agendas being blatantly pushed in our current system, lawmakers will have leverage on both sides to make changes. Not to mention the lockdowns.
 

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It’s by design. They’re deliberatetly underpaid, because a teacher who’s well paid enjoys their job and does it well, which would make our public more informed and learned than is appropriate in a democracy like ours. So, public education is underfunded, denied the resources on which the annual production of a healthy and critically adept student body depends. This is also why there is such a push for vouchers and charter schools, privatized education that prioritizes profit over teaching children anything worthwhile beyond devotion to the state and its exceptionalism.

:francis:

Yep. Making America into a true "Idiocracy" while making teachers live off of starvation wages, kids getting dumber and dumber, and people ill informed of any real positive changes.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, physical schools begin to start to get done away with in favor to online programs. With a possible return child labor.



With all the blatant anti-intellectualism and sexualized agendas being blatantly pushed in our current system, lawmakers will have leverage on both sides to make changes. Not to mention the lockdowns.


:why:

Child labor? Is this Oliver Twist in the 1800s?
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, physical schools begin to start to get done away with in favor to online programs. With a possible return child labor.



With all the blatant anti-intellectualism and sexualized agendas being blatantly pushed in our current system, lawmakers will have leverage on both sides to make changes. Not to mention the lockdowns.

Eventually...

The WGU competency based model is very cheap and affordable and decent, combined with the fact alot of students don't excel in school much it makes alot of sense.

WGU tuition is 4k every 6 months...

The GOP will eventually push for this to become mainstream and eventually the value of the degree with plunder.
 

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Its a damn shame he had to resort to that, teachers are some of the most essential parts of the society and should be rewarded with good pay
 
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