Submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://fortune.com/2024/08/14/housing-affordability-teacher-pay/
Headlines like this are a good reminder of my prime directive: Don’t donate money to political parties. Both Harries and Trump have billionaires in their corner and they don’t need your money.
Instead, donate to your friends’ mutual aid requests or invest it in your own stocks and investments. These candidates aren’t going to do anything meaningful to change your station in life, but they will make a trillion dollars appear out of thin air overnight to avoid a major drop in the stock market.
they will make a trillion dollars appear out of thin air overnight
that’s the federal reserve, which does what it wants and doesn’t answer to anyone, including the president
Thank you for adding information to my post. Have a nice evening.
Unpopular opinion, teachers should make top dollar. A teaching position should easily be in the six figures. It should attract and demand the best people in their fields.
AS long as they’re held accountable for actually teaching at that payrate, I’m all for it. I had too many teachers that did the bare minimum to make sure we could pass the standardized test and that was it. I hated science in high school because of it and can’t get enough of it now that I can learn it from people that give a shit.
as they’re held accountable for actually teaching
the bare minimum to make sure we could pass the standardized test
It’s possible these two attitudes are related somehow.
I agree with you, but The teacher pay depends on the state you live and your experience. I know this will blow your mind, but blue state tend to pay their teachers better than red states. Shocking, right?
The average teacher pay in California is 95k. If you live in a small town in California, you’re probably fairly well off. But if you live in la, you’re probably broke.
he teacher salary in Florida is about 53k. Nobody is doing great on 53 k.
Everyone’s pay.
A key piece of information missing from the title, which made it a waste of my time.
I don’t live in that country, and while I feel very much for the plight of any foreign education system in distress, I must focus my energy on things upon which I can affect positive change.
In America, we have collectively decided that we prefer our teachers to be poor and starving, that way our kids stay stupid and can be good little wage slaves.
“iT’s A vOCaTIoN” (you should work as a volunteer!)
Housing affordability is totally out of wack. You can’t base pay on that.
Why not? It’s a thing that factors into cost of living.
What’s the alternative? Just wait until economists have declared the housing market is at some baseline of normalcy before determining pay? Do you really fail to see how rediculous that would be?
housing is a core part of being a functional human. get your head out of your ass
Hey Americans.
Shouldn’t exactly teacher be capable of sustaining the American lifestyle? Since they are prompting (read advertising /s) the values to the pupils, your children on an level matching doctrine?
Just for a reference. Full-time teachers with an academic degree earn the same amout of an IT-ler in Germany. Though our education system is one of the worst in Europe. So you should elect another idol from europe tbqh.
I know that Lemmy will blindly support this claim. My point is why did I never heard such obvious claim in the Internet yet? If you are about to reply: Go influence your politics please. We are directly influenced by your decisions.
Anyhow, I am not capable of replying to replies and assume others chime in.
Much love, A European Citizien.
No problem! Every kindergartner knows, the teacher lives at school!
US Teachers should have optional free on-campus housing. Single dorms & free high quality cafeteria food.
The general problem with housing as a job benefit is that it makes you even more dependent on that particular job. It’s the same problem as with employer-provided health care.
I am somewhat shocked that teachers could start affording houses if you doubled their pay. Maybe like a house in a shitty neighborhood in conjunction with a partner… maybe
Every teacher I know makes almost twice what I do and gets the whole summer off. Stop with this bullshit coverage. The rest of us need a raise before teachers do. Why the fuck are they the hill we die on? There’s more of us suffering than them…
Weird every teacher I know makes dog shit money and the school district still expects them to cover classroom supply shortages out of their own pocket.
Also rising waters lifts all boats. Arguing that some other group shouldn’t see life improvements just means someone worse than you is making the same dumb argument against you while the wealthy are happy to pit you against each other and keep your money.
Your comment and post history is clear evidence as to why we need to increase teacher pay to provide a better educational and job and opportunities to young people in the United States.
This is such a trash tier comment and I’m not surprised you just made it and failed to respond to anyone calling you out. Gonna take a wild guess and say you’ve got some deep seated hatred for women and it comes out in weirdo ways like this.
Well, it depends on the country and it’s politics.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Average cop starting pay is significantly more than teachers. Which one requires the education? Which one contributes more to society?
Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cops should be paid a lot, but the danger should be part of the job and risk. I’m thinking specifically of those Uvalde cowards who did nothing and let kids get killed. Their job should be the risk, to take the bullets, so as to save and help the innocent. That’s the risk they should take, and get paid well specifically for that.
Many of our cops are overweight lazy traffic cops who give poor people speeding tickets who are late for their shitty job they can’t afford to be late to. Or parking wrong, or whatever.
Teachers deserve a lot more too, way more for different reasons obviously. Unless they’re forcing some religious nonsense poison into the minds of growing kids, fuck that.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 months ago
Exactly
Underpaying cops is what leads to Uvalde. Have high standards, throw the fuckin book at cops who abuse their power, and pay the rest of them properly. Cops, teachers, construction, bus drivers, all the people who make things operate should get paid a fuckin living wage, and the jobs that are skilled in addition (I.e. most of those) should be able to demand a higher wage and limit the people who’re allowed to do it to the people who can do it properly.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
My firefighter/emt job I’m at 54 hours a week starts at $41k a year. That’s after getting all the certs and all the ongoing training and emt refresher classes etc. Most of us work two jobs.