Margy,

I would be highly interested in your opinion on school choice and vouchers.

As a diehard capitalist, I can find no better solution that will both
increase teacher pay and improve education.


"Margy Natalie" wrote in message
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:

Judah wrote:

That's what happens when teachers make minimum wage, and celebrities
make
$100,000 an episode...

Well, teachers haven't made that little in a LLLOOONNNGGG time! Around
here, the
going rate is around 50K for substitutes and over 70K to start for
regulars. By
comparison, starting pay for a software developer with an MS is about
50K.

According to salary.com the median pay for a teacher in New Brunswick, NJ
is $51,
927 with the 25th percentile salary at $41,143. I think this is probably
much
closer to reality. NO schools start at 70K and many top out below that.
Somerset
High School is about $2,000 lower and NYC about $2,000 higher.
Substitutes in
Fairfax County, VA get $10 an hour. Subs are almost always hired by the
hour with
no benefits. A starting teacher in Fairfax County gets $35,813 and 7% of
that comes
off the top to pay for pension (yes, we pay our own). Fairfax is
considered a "good
paying" district in a very expensive area. 40 miles west of here the pay
drops
almost $10,000 a year.
http://www.fcps.edu/DHR/salary/scalepdfs/04tchr195.pdf
shows more realistic teacher salaries.
Margy





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