Public Schools Pay Teachers 50% Above Market, Heritage Analysis Finds

[xoxoxoBruce]

Locally

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Locally

Interesting that Middle-school teachers get more than high school.

Anyone want to speculate as to why?


Oh and

I think they've cherry picked the data sources to exaggerate the conclusion they'd already reached. I believe the desired result was to plant the seed for a future talking point about how those darn teachers, bloated government teat suckers that they are, they're the friend of our enemy (Obama) and therefore they are your enemy.

Ditto.

[Griff]

That is probably a local phenomena. I would guess they have a bunch of older Middle School teachers. Not that they shouldn't be getting a higher rate, everything is harder in middle school. You can see the pre-k numbers, typically those are non-union non-district employees working for a contractor. I do Special Ed at this level and still have to have my Masters and Certification to work with kids who are pretty challenging but at least below my weight class.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Interesting that Middle-school teachers get more than high school.

Anyone want to speculate as to why?

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They are hormon-driven little animals for about 3 years.