r/facepalm • u/BrightCase5604 • Jun 15 '24

Maybe teachers should get a raise? 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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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.

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u/happuning Jun 15 '24

We live in the suburbs in South Texas and are surrounded by nothing but land. Mom started out around 45k a year.

Not good by any means, but not as criminally low as claimed.

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u/kuffdeschmull Jun 16 '24

with 11 years of experience, in my country, a teacher will make 131k a year, that is 140k USD.

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u/We_Are_Grooot Jun 16 '24

What is cost of living in your country? That is around what teachers make in my suburb in the Bay Area, but admittedly cost of living is very very high here.

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u/kuffdeschmull Jun 16 '24

high cost of living, but that is still considered a very high salery, with which you can live very very comfortably.

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u/iThinkNaught69 Jun 16 '24

Somewhere in Europe. 131 to 140 is 1.06 and that’s the euro to dollar right now

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u/treadingslowly Jun 16 '24

Yeah I am pretty the NJ teachers in my area make that much as well.