[quote=ninaprincess]I think mid career Engineers get around 100k for the same training, so 80k is not too much for teachers.
From the article, the higher range salaries are much higher than the mid career number. So mid career is not the MAX. “The highest salaries offered range from $91,144 at Fountain Valley Elementary to $111,701 at Laguna Beach.”
If an engineer makes $100k there is no way in hell a teacher should make $80K. Engineering majors fall on the harder end of the education spectrum where teachers fall on the liberal arts easier side of the education spectrum. Period. No way in hell are they even comparable.
This opinion is coming from a licensed education major with 3 years of public high school experience under my belt before I changed career paths. From my experience and interaction with other teachers, you don’t have to be extremely brilliant to be a teacher like the Hollywood movies may portray. I seldom took work home and it wasn’t a difficult career. I was in an elective department and our FTEs were based on enrollment unlike the core courses. So you had to be a good teacher with good courses in order to justify your position. Others in core departments had a lot more job security.
It has been proven time and time again that money dumped into the education system doesn’t produce test results. In fact, doesn’t CA spend more per student than any other state with the worst results?
Also, it is almost impossible to fire a teacher because of the unions. They just shift the bad teachers around to different districts. It is called “the turkey trot”.
