Posted
3/28/2004 03:35:00 PM
by Douglas
Less than two months after the good folks at CCISD received over a
quarter Billion dollars from a bond election, the teachers get a
pay raise. Coincidence? I'm thinking not.
As part of a three-year program to make salaries competitive with those of other schools districts in the area, Clear Creek will give its 2,159 teachers a raise.
Starting salaries will get a $1,500 boost, which means recent graduates will make $37,000 instead of the $35,000 salary plus a $500 stipend. All other teachers have been guaranteed at least a $1,500 increase.
OK, let me be the one to dispel the myth how "underpaid" teachers are. Let's say they make $36,000 right out of college. That's about $23 an hour, when you figure in three months of vacation.
Look at all the professions that make considerably
less than $23 an hour with a four year bachelor's degree before you start crying that teachers are underpaid.
Update: Cool! I got some hate-mail!
In all fairness, the last sentence from the original post has been replaced. This is how it originally read:
Show me another profession where you can earn $23 an hour right of college before you start crying that teachers are underpaid.That was kind of misleading. The blog would like to apologize for any confusion this might have caused, but since $23 an hour is still pretty good scratch, we won't be capitulating on this issue.