A bit of a tangent here, but I get the frustration of on-line dating. My wife died when my daughter was young, and much of my focus was raising her solo until she went off to college. Trying to date in your early 50's is not fun, and on-line dating was awful. Fortunately, my future wife had only been on-line for a week when we met. I realized I had something very special, got rid of my dating accounts, and we were married 18 months later.
I met my partner nearly 20 years ago online when admitting that you met online was almost a badge of shame. I'm still blown away that a dude from North Carolina who had never been on a date with a guy was able to meet the best guy on the planet who was a 4th grade teacher in Michigan and convince him to move to NC.
He must have taken a substantial pay-cut going from teaching in Michigan to teaching in North Carolina.
Indeed. His younger brother has 2 years less experience, both have masters degrees. Younger brother has remained teaching in Michigan. Drew makes $58,000 in NC including all supplements (Wake County). His brother makes $105,000 in Michigan.
Only if the polling turns to virtually irrefutably showing Kamala is going to win. I could see him quitting in that scenario to avoid the shame of losing in a landslide, esp. to a Kamala...
That would be hilarious
Even then he still wouldn’t quit, he’d just fire up the rigged election BS.
Yep. Something went very wrong w/her somewhere along the way.
This! Times a billion.
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And you can thank the Pubs in NC for that. They are trying to get rid of public education all together so they can make it all Christian schools and also be able to make money off it.
The pay for veteran teachers in NC is inexcusably low, even when compared to states like South Carolina. Basically your state pay is capped at twenty years at about $53,000, and after that you will spend the rest of your teaching career without ever seeing a significant raise. The legislature is obviously hoping that veteran teachers will just quit long before they can collect their full thirty-year pension, and by driving out veteran teachers they will make it more difficult for public schools to function and that also plays into their plans to wreck public ed to justify diverting more and more money into vouchers and charters and so on. Each county can provide a stipend to increase the state base salary, but smaller rural counties usually have small stipends, while larger counties do have larger stipends, but it still doesn't raise the salaries of veteran teachers enough to make up for inflation and the higher cost of living in urban areas. And as long as the GOP controls the state legislature - which is to say, pretty much forever - they will never approve raising veteran teacher pay ever again, at least not without tacking on some ridiculous hoops that veteran teachers have to jump through to get the raise.
they will never approve raising veteran teacher pay ever again, at least not without tacking on some ridiculous hoops that veteran teachers have to jump through to get the raise.
What makes it really ridiculous - and very obvious at what they're up to - is that they do keep raising the pay for beginning teachers and newer teachers. As a result, the pay for beginning teachers and teachers with five or ten years of experience keeps gaining on the pay for veteran teachers, which almost never sees any increase at all.
I am not sure-but I think the "avg teacher pay" ( including local supplements) is about equal to the Max on the State paid schedule . I worked in Compensation for nearly 40 years. This is insane
They plateau at what, 15 years....and never get again until 25 years (and then that's it). As you said, it's all a sham system to scam some of the most important people in our state. They want them to start off teaching and then bail to the private sector before they earn enough years to be in the state retirement system with full retirement. It's awful. It's designed to keep teachers inexperienced, on the whole.
