schools out for summer!

Not a teacher, but work in a school. Woke up at 9am today, which usually feels like the time I want to eat my lunch. Summer, summer, summer. Why would anyone NOT want to work in a school. Life is looking pretty great right about now!

at least you can ride the subways at 3pm now without wanting to kill yourself (or somebody else)

joseph11 wrote: [quote=flux]I wouldn't want to work in a school because salaries are really low. Glad you guys at least get the summer off.

Wow thats kind of a dick thing to say. Maybe some people want to have a fulfilling job. Guess the allowance from daddy has not gone down in these hard time.
I would think that if she were on an allowance from daddy, she wouldn't need to take salary into account. Seems like a failure in logic.

joseph11 wrote: your gonna attack, but not the person who's insulting the the pay of people that work there asses off. Guess you r just as bad. I'm really starting to hate the people movin to brooklyn

"Movin [sic] to brooklyn"? I was born and bred here, as were my parents and all 4 of my grandparents. Once again, the insult you pulled out of nowhere is off base.

And "insulting the pay of people who work their asses off" is a positive thing, no? It implies they deserve more pay. The poster "insulted" the pay, not the people.

I hate kids.

flux wrote: I wouldn't want to work in a school because salaries are really low. Glad you guys at least get the summer off.

I guess, for NYC standards. It isn't completely horrible though. The average teacher salary in NYC is like around $60k, the lowest possible is like $45.5k, so it is better than cops. They currently top out just over $100k.

So figure an average of $60k for ten months, two solid months off plus the other breaks and whatnot. Not so bad. Of course teaching has its own rewards, which is cliched but true. Yay teachers! I have great respect, and would support you earned TWICE whatever they pay you!

Well, the good ones at least. Therein lays the rub.

Anyhow, pay schedule.

possibly_maybe wrote: oh wait, didn't some little kid get a fine for chalking the sidewalk last year?

She got threatened with a $300 fine, but the chalk got washed off (not sure if they washed it off or it got hit by rain) and the fine didn't materialize. Ellis Gallagher got arrested and held overnight in Brooklyn before they dismissed charges for sidewalk chalk though. A police department spokesperson at the time maintained that although they might not be able to make a graffiti charge stick since it can be easily washed away, they could make a criminal mischief charge stick for it.

teachers are so lucky, summers is the time i can make a living driving a van.

queencallipygos wrote: [quote=joseph11][quote=flux]I wouldn't want to work in a school because salaries are really low. Glad you guys at least get the summer off.

Wow thats kind of a dick thing to say. Maybe some people want to have a fulfilling job. Guess the allowance from daddy has not gone down in these hard time.

....I don't see this as a "dick thing to say," just an expression of an opinion.
The average salary in NYC is just over $50k. It is lower for most of the US. The average NYC teacher earns $60k. My _opinion_ is that anyone that calls a salary of $60k, which is $10k above the average for NYC, is kind of a wanker. Sure, there are folks that make shit tons of money. That doesn't make it OK for them to go around belittling anyone who doesn't. Especially when the people being belittled are making above average anyhow. And double especially when they are doing such a special job.

But that is just an expression of my opinion.

daver wrote: [quote=queencallipygos][quote=joseph11][quote=flux]I wouldn't want to work in a school because salaries are really low. Glad you guys at least get the summer off.

Wow thats kind of a dick thing to say. Maybe some people want to have a fulfilling job. Guess the allowance from daddy has not gone down in these hard time.

....I don't see this as a "dick thing to say," just an expression of an opinion.
The average salary in NYC is just over $50k. It is lower for most of the US. The average NYC teacher earns $60k. My _opinion_ is that anyone that calls a salary of $60k, which is $10k above the average for NYC, is kind of a wanker. Sure, there are folks that make shit tons of money. That doesn't make it OK for them to go around belittling anyone who doesn't. Especially when the people being belittled are making above average anyhow. And double especially when they are doing such a special job.

But that is just an expression of my opinion.



I didn't explain myself well enough -- let me try again.

I don't consider the statement "I couldn't be a teacher, they don't make enough money" to be an insult. After all, "I couldn't be a teacher, the pay sucks" could very easily carry the subtext "so you're to be commended for doing such an important job, seeing that the financial compensation is crap". I do not necessarily see that "I couldn't be a teacher, the pay sucks" carries the subtext "so you must be a ninny to be putting up with that".

THAT'S what I meant.

joseph11 wrote: 60,000 a year doesn't get you squat in this city. A don't know any teachers that dont have second job just to pay the bills.

that means they are spending beyond their means.

I make half that as well, i don't have problems.

Er, this is not too far off what I make. I always thought teachers made much less because the ones I know will still complain (or at least toss it out there as a joke--"oh, I can't spend money on that, I'm a teacher!" type of thing). Sort of weird to know that this is not the case--is my personal standard of living so below other people's??--but I always feel OK with what I have.