I have seen soooooooo many social media posts by people who have no flipping clue how teachers get paid or why, but they are certain that it needs to be more.
Full disclosure, my wife is a special ed teacher...
Let's do a little compare and contrast.
8 weeks vacation minimum, starting out. I've been working 17 years for one company to get 5. State mandates 180 "days" in class. I know teachers work more than that, and more than 8 hours a day, but c'mon, that's still 81 days off. Also, working overtime without extra pay isn't just a teacher thing.
Represented workforce negotiated $50k/yr give or take. I have to negotiate my own pay.
State and local governments fund school corporations. I get paid based on how much product we sell.
Not a bad gig, all in all... Pay goes way up if you move into administration, and you still get tons of vaca.
Also, school corporations pay the salaries, so why are they protesting the state government? Also, who sets the school corporation budget?
I've read through nearly all of the Indiana code, even the bits written in the 1800s and no where did I see anything about teacher salaries. What I did see is the the school corporation sets the salary. IC-20-28-9-1.5 section G
(g) Each school corporation shall submit its local compensation plan to the Indiana education employment relations board. For a school year beginning after June 30, 2015, a local compensation plan must specify the range for teacher salaries. The Indiana education employment relations board shall publish the local compensation plans on the Indiana education employment relations board's Internet web site.
It's ironic, to me anyway, that there are so many uneducated people, on an issue dealing primarily with education. Maybe it's because we don't pay teachers enough...
All the snark and sarcasm aside, if I'm wrong on this, please let me know. Thank you!
Full disclosure, my wife is a special ed teacher...
Let's do a little compare and contrast.
8 weeks vacation minimum, starting out. I've been working 17 years for one company to get 5. State mandates 180 "days" in class. I know teachers work more than that, and more than 8 hours a day, but c'mon, that's still 81 days off. Also, working overtime without extra pay isn't just a teacher thing.
Represented workforce negotiated $50k/yr give or take. I have to negotiate my own pay.
State and local governments fund school corporations. I get paid based on how much product we sell.
Not a bad gig, all in all... Pay goes way up if you move into administration, and you still get tons of vaca.
Also, school corporations pay the salaries, so why are they protesting the state government? Also, who sets the school corporation budget?
I've read through nearly all of the Indiana code, even the bits written in the 1800s and no where did I see anything about teacher salaries. What I did see is the the school corporation sets the salary. IC-20-28-9-1.5 section G
(g) Each school corporation shall submit its local compensation plan to the Indiana education employment relations board. For a school year beginning after June 30, 2015, a local compensation plan must specify the range for teacher salaries. The Indiana education employment relations board shall publish the local compensation plans on the Indiana education employment relations board's Internet web site.
It's ironic, to me anyway, that there are so many uneducated people, on an issue dealing primarily with education. Maybe it's because we don't pay teachers enough...
All the snark and sarcasm aside, if I'm wrong on this, please let me know. Thank you!