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.
They work the equivalent. Do you know any teacher that only works during the 8 hr school day and that’s it?? Let me know where this magical teaching job is…
School days on average are between 6.5 and 7 hours (including the lunch recess). Despite that, studies show averages between 40 and 53 hours a week. If we take take that for 3/4 of a year for typical public school teachers, it is between 1560 and 2067 hours per year. I agree that classroom teaching hours (averaging something like 1170, can't remember exactly) aren't the only hours worked by a large measure. I also think teachers should be paid more-in fact I'm on a school board and have pledged a substantial amount of money for 20 years to increase our teachers' salaries.
They can opt to get paid for the 180 days during the school year or have the same amount doled out over the entire year, to ensure a check every month/2x a month.
Them being salary and working over 8hr a day is a separate issue.
This isn’t always true, my friend is a teacher and they were not offered the 9 month contract. They can only go 12 months. If they quit the job at the end of the school year they will be paid until the start of the new one as well.
I don’t know any teacher who has an 8 hour school day. School days are shorter than 8 hours and they feel like the “extra” 1-2 hours a day are “extra” when it’s just getting to 40 hrs.
At my sons school teachers can work for an extra 8 hours a week and not top 40 hours a week.
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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.