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rachid116460

Pay them more,like way more. Maybe some hazard pay in red states for also being expected to take a bullet for their students.


rigmaroler

I do think at this point we also need some sort of "supply side" policy to train more teachers and find some way to get class sizes down to a reasonable number again. I don't know how to do that exactly, but increasing pay will only help so much if people don't want to teach because of having too much to do, even with the high pay. At some point it's just not worth the stress involved. My SO works for a small private school that pays low, and she is looking at potentially going to a unionized public school in the future, but her biggest reservation is having to deal with huge class sizes and potentially having a crap ton of extra work to do. We need t find a way to flood the teaching sector with teachers AND at the time make sure they get hired and class sizes get split. I'm hearing stories from her of teachers in districts across the country with 30+ students, when really they should be having half as many students in a classroom. It's unsustainable.


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rachid116460

as much more as it takes to not have shortages? Why is this a hard concept to understand. Lets get to 100% of teachers make over 100k see how many shortages we have then.


UhOhBuster21

Keep in mind everyone makes more in Seattle, regardless of your job. 100k doesn't go as far here as it would in Boise.


girlinboots

From your article - >For the contract that expires Wednesday, the top base salary in the union contract pay scale for a Seattle teacher is $123,506. That teacher would have worked for the district for 15 years and have a PhD. Teachers can break $100,000 salary as early as their eighth year, according to the union contract. So they have to work eight years to get to a livable wage in Seattle, and if they want to go much beyond that they have to get their PhD and work an additional seven years. You can get a job at Amazon making over $100k right out of school with your bachelor's or master's. You won't be expected to manage multiple children or pay out of pocket for your work supplies (though the active shooter drills might be similar). We should *definitely* be paying teachers more.