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Old 01-13-2004, 12:24 PM   #16
russotto
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[quote]Originally posted by dar512

Pay for school teachers, especially grade school level, is abysmal. In any other profession, a college graduate working 50-60 hour weeks would be paid much more.


Not likely. (BTW, Even if they do work 50-60 hour a weeks, it's only for 3/4 year). You want low pay for high education, try masters-level therapist.


There are two problems. One is that most of the money for K-12 schools comes from the local level. Many (most?) people see school taxes as the only ones they have direct control over. If they vote down the school tax, that's at least one tax they can make sure doesn't go up.


School taxes are sky high and they keep raising them. The teachers in Perk Valley are like the second-highest paid in the state (after Council Rock, which went on strike for even MORE pay despite that). Pay isn't the problem. The problem is a system which fails to reward good performance and fails to discourage poor performance.
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