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.
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.
Sounds like the story of my 12th wife...
We had dinner with a 30 ish couple earlier this week The lady is a perfect AI generated elementary school teacher She taught for two years and then decided she wanted to move out of her parents house Now she sits at home and does sales on her laptop and doubled her salary What a waste that we scare all these folks out of the teaching profession
Interesting. I did not know there was another comp guy/gal around here.
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Phil Berger has been one of the ringleaders of this effort since he became Senate Majority Leader well over a decade ago. I have friends that live in Rockingham County and they told me years ago that he was overheard at dinners and meetings demeaning teachers and the teaching profession. He's had a lot of help of course, but he's just the devil as far as public ed and decent teacher pay in this state is concerned. It's no accident that right after the NC GOP legislature lifted the caps on charter schools many years ago that his son almost immediately began working to open a charter in Rockingham County. Something went wrong and the school never opened, and Phil, Jr. eventually got out of for-profit ed and was elected to the State Supreme Court.
First he was an Administrative Law judge-honorable but not a"real judge" . After a few years of this Daddy had a law passed that said Administraive Law judges should have their service counted in the lucrative Judge pension system
