Calexico Teachers' little problem with salary

spic-ole · Posted: 18 Sep 2005 12:39 PM Post subject:

I think that anyone who has ever been a teacher, or who talks to one, on a daily basis, knows that the 35K starting is justified. The rhetoric is always the same. Work in an air conditioned room from 8 to 3, and then go home, as locoinclx has pointed out. However, what happens to all the lesson planning, paper grading, parent conferences, etc. that goes into being a teacher. Most of that stuff is never seen.

Teachers don't get little elf assistants that do all of this stuff for them. Most do it at home from 3 until whenever it takes. And yes, it is a salary job, and the work needs to get done no matter how long it gets takes, but how many of you go to work, come home, and sit in your home office for the next 2-6 hours working on the next day, every day? It's justified, it's fair, and no, not everybody does it, but it's ridiculous to try to punish all the teachers who do it, for the few that don't.

And let's be honest, 35K is not a lot. And if it seems like a lot, you need to stop and wonder where you made the mistakes in your life, and not waste your time complaining about somebody making more than you. For years, being a teacher has been considered one of the worst jobs to have because of the high stress, low pay, and little support, and that's for a reason. It's a job people go into because they want to, not to become millionares. Some may have fallen into it, but most people fall into their current jobs. Studies show that around 50 percent of people that graduate from college never work in the field of their degrees.

I agree that the teachers here in Calexico should get a raise, not because the student's performance is outstanding, however, if any of you backseat politicians took the time to look at the numbers, you would see that the improvement in performance has been quite good, but because the state has decided to give teachers a cost of living percentage raise that the district is not giving to its teachers.

I think the district should give it to them. The only way that's going to happen is with the support of the community. People need to sign petitions, call the district, and/or go to the district and request that teachers get the raise that they deserve.

spic-ole supports Calexico's teachers. The petition will be up tomorrow.

chuco boy · Posted: 18 Sep 2005 01:21 PM Post subject: Salary increase

School board members are elected by the residents. However they do have a budget and we are a poor school district that is dependent on outside funding. The question is.... Are the kid's quality-of-life programs going to be cut to satisfy the budget increase in teacher's? How about the other low paid employees(clerks,grounds crew, maintenance, etc)? Don't they need raises? I'm sure the school board members are sensitive to this but they have a budget. It's a "zero sum" game. If the teachers can find "fat" in this budget ,work with the school board and cut the waste.

Education is not lucrative and the board/administrators know they have many other qualified teachers on a waiting list for full time employment. Let's face it we are a poor community and the only way to resolve the issue is to increase the budget with more revenues or cut the fat out.

spic-ole · Posted: 18 Sep 2005 01:38 PM Post subject: Re: Salary increase

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