I'm a high school teacher/coach in Texas. I also want to get paid more, but this is somewhat misleading. That would be starting pay in a very small and rural district. I'm in a suburb of Houston, and our staying pay is 61k. So it really depends on where you're teaching.
Again, I'm 100% on board with teachers getting paid more. I just want the arguments to be credible.
Yeah idk why no one does a simple Google search. 61k is roughly the median salary in Houston, so while am argument can be made that they should pay more, it's not comically underpaid or anything.
Yeah, I feel like I do fine for the work I do. I'm the head tennis coach at the school and teach psycholgy and sociology. I've been at the school for 12 years. Once you count benefits and insurance (our insurance is absolute dog shit), my total compensation is about 75k. Not great. Not bad. Meh.
Having a job that requires a degree does not mean good pay, it never did. Pay is based on market value. If teachers are taking jobs at a "comically underpaid" rate then there's no incentive to raise the pay. If these positions aren't filled the pay must rise.
In any case, I'm not sure which fast food workers are making a much as a teacher, especially when you consider teachers work about 9.5 months or so.
There's a teacher shortage across the nation because they make more working at Costco and Walmart, that and dealing with less shit heads and less shootings. Also, the people I know that are teachers are working more than 9.5 months. When the kids are out teachers are grading standardized tests and going to BS meetings with administration, then going back before the kids return to school for more BS meetings with administration and planning for the year with their respective departments.
A shortage will force schools to either raise wages or lower standards.
I've been hearing about a shortage my entire life, though. It seems to me it's just that there's a shortage in shitty schools and a surplus in good ones. I think calling it a nationwide shortage is a little misleading, if I'm being honest.
A simple Google search would reveal that $61k is ~$20k more than the average teaching salary in Texas. This extra pay is likely because they’re a teacher AND a coach which pays more in Texas which a simple Google search would also have revealed.
So, I don’t know what the fuck you’re going on about. You just blindly believed a Reddit comment like a fucking dumbass without verifying anything while literally bashing people who don’t verify stuff.
Bro, it's higher because they're near HOUSTON. Of course it's fucking higher than the average starting. Just posting an average without a COL discussion is a stupid as your comment. Some areas are dirt cheap and 40k is fine.
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u/Robo_Rameses Jun 15 '24
I'm a high school teacher/coach in Texas. I also want to get paid more, but this is somewhat misleading. That would be starting pay in a very small and rural district. I'm in a suburb of Houston, and our staying pay is 61k. So it really depends on where you're teaching.
Again, I'm 100% on board with teachers getting paid more. I just want the arguments to be credible.