Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?

Songbird76

Songbird76

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PUSH said:
Getting paid for all those summers off is a sweet deal!

I feel the need to clarify that this is sarcasm, and teachers do not get paid for the days they don't work. This includes winter and spring breaks.
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A lot of teachers in my high school would get summer jobs driving trucks at the mines to have an income in the summer months. The mines paid well, so they probably made almost as much in the summer as they made throughout the rest of the year teaching, but I don't know.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Goofyernmost said:
If tenured, the salaries are based on the year and back when I did payroll for a school system in Vermont the yearly pay equaled or came close to what others were making working for 12 months. Technically they were not getting paid during the time they were off in the summer, but basically paid the equivalent for the year. The theory was that to remain current they encouraged teachers to take courses in the summer and occasionally get paid extra for things going on in the school. I forget what they called that now. The rest of the staff, teachers aides, were not paid during time off, they were all paid hourly.

Now, please don't mistake what I just said as being critical of that procedure. If it weren't for that we would probably have no teachers at all due to the inability of the public to see past this moment and properly compensate teachers for putting up with their snot nosed demons all day while they sat at home eating bon - bons or something. The wage of teachers is not paying for what their value is. But, I still think it would have been nice to have most of the summer off when I was working. Here in NC there was a movement on a few years ago to have school year round. Most of the schools built within the last 20+ years all have AC. I have no grandkids in the loop at the moment so I don't really know where things are now. I do know that there are some operating year round now. Of course, they were afforded other school breaks during the year that added up to about the same number of school days. As far as I remember, there are about 9 or 10 in North Carolina. They aren't really completely year round, there is a five week break in the summer to stop and take a breath, take a vacation or extensive mental health therapy. We amazingly probably have more snow days then up north because a half inch of snow stops absolutely everything for up to a week or more, if it stays below freezing.
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When I was a young kid, our school district had great teachers because it was the richest district in the state with all the coal mines, and they paid their teachers more than anywhere else. Every position had upwards of 50 applicants, so competition was pretty high. And Wyoming as a state paid their teachers pretty well in comparison to other states, especially when you took into account that the cost of living in Wyoming was low compared to everywhere else. By the time I got my teaching certificate, Wyoming was something like 49th in teacher pay in the country, and my district was one of the lowest paid. They can't attract decent teachers because the pay is so low. I think WITH my signing bonus, my yearly salary was like $23,500. Nowhere NEAR what most professions make. So many teachers supplemented their incomes by working at one of the coal mines during the summer. Some got coaching endorsements. My Math teacher worked as an EMT, drove truck at the mines in the summer, AND coached basketball. It was kind of ridiculous what teachers have to do to make ends meet. The majority of teachers are Wyoming natives who just didn't want to go somewhere else. They can't seem to attract good teachers from other states because literally every other state pays their teachers more. It's so sad!! And a bunch of people quit teaching and start doing something else because everything pays more than being a teacher.
 
PUSH

PUSH

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I have responses to like three posts, so instead of quoting I'm just going to post.

I can opt to have my contract split between 9 or 12 months. I chose 12 months, as do most staff. Hourly employees like paras only get paid for the months they're in school, but some choose to do summer school. But that's only half days for 4 or 5 days a week across 6 weeks.

Teachers can apply to coach, but the majority have no interest in that. I will get an extra stipend at the end of the year for being on the school's guiding coalition (essentially a teacher leader who has some extra responsibility). It's not a game-changing amount, but it will be nice to have. Some years I do summer school, some I don't. I probably won't this summer because I'll just need a break. I have a tough group this year.
 
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Lilofan

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NYwdwfan said:
The transition from roll up windows to automatic windows was one of the biggest technological advances of my car-driving lifetime.
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I would think cars switching to fuel injection was a big deal. Don’t know how many times I flooded the engine in my Chevy Monza when trying to start it.
 
JenniferS

JenniferS

When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
NYwdwfan said:
The transition from roll up windows to automatic windows was one of the biggest technological advances of my car-driving lifetime.
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For me it was intermittent wipers. In my first car, whenever I was stopped at a red light in light rain, I would pretend I had them, and count to 5 and flick my regular wipers on over and over until the light changed.

Take that, piece of carp car beside me that doesn’t have them!
 
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