Harmony... I totally get what you are saying but I had to pay to keep my job. Each year teachers, at least in this state and most others, are required to be recertified with 180 hours of additional training, sometimes at the teachers expense. I have not only a BS but also a masters degree. The star requires us to jump through all sorts of additional training through out the school year while I normally worked a 50 plus hour week.
I am responsible for educating the future people of our country ... drs, lawyers anyone you come in contact with during your day and I took that responsibility seriously. In my state the public has voted many times to raise taxes to increase the teachers salaries.... however unfortunately my state government seldom does what the people of the star voted for.
That is why the teachers are so pissed of here in my state. Here’s a great example ... right before I retired the district wanted to cut the schools electric bill and said they were going to charge each teacher, or deduct from their salary, the electical usage of each of our workrooms’ refrigerator, microwave and coffee pots...I kid you not. Plus we would be taxed for our individual classroom coffee pots and such. However once it was discovered the districts office would suffer no such taxes the idea was nixed.
Most ranchers spend $550-1000 a year of their own money for supplies and extras to run their classrooms... just ask Lucylee or any others here in this village who have children in the education world. Teachers are getting really tired of all the blame for the failure of the education system in this country especially when many work so hard to change it and still don’t get paid for their efforts.
There’s an old saying... you get what you pay for and here n my state there is a reason why so many teachers are leaving the field that they live ... just in my district alone there is a shortage of Sped teachers wth more than 100 positions unrolled and her 550 teachers LEFT their teaching position during the first six weeks of the school year.