This teacher is close to calling it quits after 30 years. I can no longer afford to work 60+ hours a week and purchase virtually all the supplies for my classroom. The testing culture drains the joy out of teaching.
Our nation faces an unprecedented shortage of teachers. The teacher wage gap is one of the reasons why — and it just got worse. As president, I would enact the largest federal investment in teacher pay in American history. https://www.epi.org/165729/pre/ce4a38e0798b13290f62f7665cf24327f8ee5443dcf2de4c47390e7cabb5d24d/ …
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Thank you! Meanwhile nurses are being accused of playing cards while our nurse to patient ratio has skyrocketed to dangerous levels & wages have stagnated.
#MedicareForAllThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I wonder if this wage gap has anything to do with what proportion of teachers are often women?
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If the woman wage gap was true employers everywhere would be scrambling to hire women since they do the same work for 20% off. In short, there is no gender wage gap.
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Not about teacher pay, we have to change how we fund the schools. There are too many old schools with no supplies, no technology and no means of educating kids properly for this era of technology, manufacturing, farming, service.
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If we want McDonald’s to be a temporary job that isn’t meant to be a career (it can be but that’s the rhetoric spread) then give everyone the means to further themselves even before college.
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Must be changed at the state level. Vote out those who, for some ungodly reason, do not consider education for our children a priority in your state. For example
#Indiana need a WHOLE lot of new people at the state level.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Anyone who thinks teachers have it made need to volunteer to substitute teach. Nearly broke my marriage when my husband tried to teach high school with 20 year old textbooks, 65 hour work weeks, and took home $950 biweekly.
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