This! Times a billion.Even then he still wouldn’t quit, he’d just fire up the rigged election BS.
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This! Times a billion.Even then he still wouldn’t quit, he’d just fire up the rigged election BS.
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.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.
I may or may not be reminded of this often.
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.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.
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.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.
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.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.
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$53,000-a freakin joke
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 insaneWhat 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.
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.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.
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.
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Also, updating thread title, despite claims by Trump, as far as I can tell, Harris did not appear at this conference via Zoom.
Sounds like the story of my 12th wife...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.
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 professionMore than one Republican who supported this expressly said that Teacher’ Unions (not permitted in NC) are our enemy and teaching should be considered an entry-level job, not a career. More than one recalled that teaching used to be what young men did until they finished their apprenticeship for a real job and what young women did before having kids of their own and that is the model we should go back to.
Interesting. I did not know there was another comp guy/gal around here.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
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.More than one Republican who supported this expressly said that Teacher’ Unions (not permitted in NC) are our enemy and teaching should be considered an entry-level job, not a career. More than one recalled that teaching used to be what young men did until they finished their apprenticeship for a real job and what young women did before having kids of their own and that is the model we should go back to.
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 systemPhil 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.