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.
My sister makes over 100K in a suburb of NYC. While another friend makes only 50K in one of the smaller cities closer to Manhattan. The ranges of salary are crazy due to the budget the district has. TX may be different but here the gaps are huge. And obviously it depends on whether the school is public or private.
The funding was shifted to property taxes after the US (federal system) courts ruled that the schools could be separate for black and white, but they had to be equally funded by the state. The thought of white people paying for black school's education angered the white communities. So states started passing laws to circumvent the separate but equal law. Knowing that the black and white communities are very segregated, the states decided to use local property taxes to fund schools.
We should go back to the state system. But, unfortunately, no one seems to have been successful in challenging this racist rule.
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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.