The oppressed masses in the Rose Tree Media Education Association — the union the covers teachers, school nurses and guidance counselors in the Rose Tree Media School District — voted to strike Wednesday.
Obviously, the working conditions in the district must be horrible for these caring professionals to take the drastic step of harming a child’s education.
And they are! Consider the plight of Springton Lake Middle School physical education teacher Stephen Adams. His salary was $87,329 in 2009. And that was for 195 days grueling days of teaching gym class. Granted, he also gets benefits but can’t you understand why he might have to vote to hurt a child with working conditions such as that?
Or consider Indian Lane Elementary School teacher David Woods. He made a mere $95,817 in 2009. I weep for these people.
BTW, this link can give you the salaries of just about every public school teacher in Pennsylvania.
This one can give you the salaries of just about every public school teacher in New Jersey.
As ridiculous or non-ridiculous as you feel the salary at Rose Tree Media is, it is not unusual for an experienced teacher to be making this kind of money in this area. Wallington-Swathmore, another school district in Delaware county, has experienced teachers that are making over $100,000 a year. If you go to a nearby county like Montgomery, you’ll find teachers making over $127,000.
There’s a great little site: http://www.teachercatapult.com that has all this data researched and displayed. It’s worth taking a look.
I think it’s important everyone have their needs met by their employer, but currently our government’s policies of interference in everything prevent an economic condition that allows such thinking.
As to teachers, I can only say this – my parents got a superior education in a one room schoolhouse. I don’t see why, in a town whose population is 11,000 – that we need to be paying out $7.25 million in teachers’ salaries alone, let alone expensive perks. I believe we need to redefine what education IS, as well as bust the unions and clear out this pension crisis we have ourselves into that is bankrupting our states.
I need to be applying to places like these if that’s really the case. I’ve been teaching for nearly a decade, and still fight to pay the bills. In fact, unless near retirement, I’ve never known a teacher who was well off, especially in the state of PA.
Teachers gives us knowledge about everything in this world. This makes us eligible so that we can earn a recognizable job which is of great importance in future. Thus teachers are the prime person who should be awarded.
I sincerely hope the the lupus symptoms are just that–symptoms, and whatever else is wrong is easily curable.
And yes, teachers are worth great salaries and benefits providing they do the job. Unfortunately American kids are no longer leading the pack.
15-year-old students in the U.S. are performing about average in reading and science, and below average in math. Out of 34 countries, the U.S. ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math.
My guess is that you are a teacher or related to one.
The ones we should be listening to are the elderly on fixed incomes who can no longer pay exorbitant taxes in order to pay those high salaries and benefits.
And again, I hope you are well.
Wow… Such a big sum of money. It’s nice to see that there are so good salaries.
Check this one out: Teachers Should Be Filthy Rich And Here’s How To Do It
I am a teacher in NJ and one of my certifications,my education and my earnings in the industry,I AM inadequate.But i will not complain since it was a choice.I have to lower wages for more stability.How can we in fact do the same Can you have never heard a conversation in which teachers sometimes complain that they do not make enough money.I think you can write a school essay about it! And I would guarantee I know more than teachers do.That would be police officers complained that their work is too dangerous to go in knowing that as teachers.
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$87K a year to be a gym teacher? Wow apparently my guidance counselor hid this info from me and led me down the wrong path!
To many teachers are like the parents who leave the kids outside the casino while they play the slots.
Let’s let the kids choose the teachers. Go for vouchers and school choice.
If you don’t pay techers good money how can they teach properly? What are the kids going to be like? One man once said (I don’t remember his name) ‘The country is going to have the same quality as is the quality of education. Please make it accessible to more people!!
Im in the wrong industry. I’m all for teachers getting paid well, but $80K+ to teach a gym class? The salaries of these teachers must include hazard pay.
What is the highest and lowest salary scale in this list…?
I am a teacher in TX and one of my certifications,my education and my earnings in the industry,I AM inadequate.But i will not complain since it was a choice.I have to lower wages for more stability.How can we in fact do the same Can you have never heard a conversation in which teachers sometimes complain that they do not make enough money
Everybody should be paid whatever they deserve.
The problem comes when you start paying people what they don’t deserve.
There are a lot of bad teachers and featherbedded administrators making a lot of money.
My parents raised me to respect teachers, I am teaching my children the same thing. They have a hard job, dealing with raged kids sometimes, their parents and school system in general. They deserve better. Best regards…
Teacher are way under paid. They put up with alot of terrible things.
Absolutely, Epllipitcal T!!!
Without well-paid teachers how can people learn things like, well, grammar.
I think you can write a school essay about it! And I guarantee I know more than the police do.That teachers complained that their work is too dangerous to go, knowing that as teachers.
Education is one of the most important things in a country. People have been trying to find ways to improve the quality of the education. I agree that the best way to improve the quality of the education in a country is to increase teachers’ salaries because our education system can really profit a lot from doing so.
First of all, by increasing teachers’ salaries, we can attract excellent teachers all over the world. Just imagine, an American native speaker to teach Chinese students real American English, a company officer to tell students how to execute a firm, an Olympic swimming championship to train student during their swimming lessons. With the best teachers, students can be best educated.
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Regardless of the pay, once you decided to be a teacher, you must teach with heart. it’s a respectable career, you should get the deserved rewarding.
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In today day teacher salary are less than other employee salary.
In CIS countries teacher get 200 dollars a month! How do you like it?
Working conditions in the area really need to be addressed – and I don’t honestly see the problem with using strikes to achieve better conditions.
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Teacher salaries are appalling. I really hope something is done about this situation, and soon!
I think you can write a school essay about it! And I guarantee I know more than the police do.That teachers complained that their work is too dangerous to go.
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So teacher is a hero. Ok ?