Submitted by Leonard Isenberg (not verified) on July 17, 2007 - 20:33.
I make $78,000 a year for a 9 month-a-year job. Add to that 15% for National Board Certification and you arrive at $89,700, unless I choose to also teach summer school for additional money.
While I could make more practicing law, compensation is not the issue. Rather, it is the behavior of students that is tolerated so that innercity school districts can collect Average Daily Attendance (ADA) money from the state based on warm butts in the sit and not on whether or not students are actually being educated. In Los Angeles, 90% of Whites are out of public education.
All children- mine included- push for limits. When they receive no limits, they create a chaotic environment where education is not possible for them or others. Mikara Solomon Davis, a Teach For America teacher- now principal- with no credentials turned around a difficult innercity Compton, California elementary school with a stereotypically "problematic" 50% African-American and 50% Latino student population. By the end of three years, Principal Davis got 868 API scores- comparable to Beverly Hills and San Marino- two highly affluent Southern California communities (Los Angeles Times 1/14/07). She did this by suspending 100 of the 468 student population until their parents were willing to assure their children's behavior. She also paid teachers additional money to work one-on-one with students who were initial behind their grade level.
50% of teachers do not quit teaching within 5 years of starting to work in innercity schools because of salary, they do so because there is no serious attempt to create the aforementioned environment to educate minority children by first requiring that they comport themselves in a socially acceptable manner. By allowing these children to run wild instead of being educated to their potential, our society doesn't have to question its racist stereotypes of these children that such failed schools continue to nurture.
Teacher Compensation Is Not The Problem
Submitted by Leonard Isenberg (not verified) on July 17, 2007 - 20:33.
I make $78,000 a year for a 9 month-a-year job. Add to that 15% for National Board Certification and you arrive at $89,700, unless I choose to also teach summer school for additional money.
While I could make more practicing law, compensation is not the issue. Rather, it is the behavior of students that is tolerated so that innercity school districts can collect Average Daily Attendance (ADA) money from the state based on warm butts in the sit and not on whether or not students are actually being educated. In Los Angeles, 90% of Whites are out of public education.
All children- mine included- push for limits. When they receive no limits, they create a chaotic environment where education is not possible for them or others. Mikara Solomon Davis, a Teach For America teacher- now principal- with no credentials turned around a difficult innercity Compton, California elementary school with a stereotypically "problematic" 50% African-American and 50% Latino student population. By the end of three years, Principal Davis got 868 API scores- comparable to Beverly Hills and San Marino- two highly affluent Southern California communities (Los Angeles Times 1/14/07). She did this by suspending 100 of the 468 student population until their parents were willing to assure their children's behavior. She also paid teachers additional money to work one-on-one with students who were initial behind their grade level.
50% of teachers do not quit teaching within 5 years of starting to work in innercity schools because of salary, they do so because there is no serious attempt to create the aforementioned environment to educate minority children by first requiring that they comport themselves in a socially acceptable manner. By allowing these children to run wild instead of being educated to their potential, our society doesn't have to question its racist stereotypes of these children that such failed schools continue to nurture.