[geeks] Teachers

[Hicheal Morton]

On 9/5/07, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >From: Dr Robert Pasken <rpasken at eas.slu.edu>
> >Date: 2007/09/05 Wed AM 06:35:25 CDT
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Goodbye, I guess
>
> <snip>
>
> >Let's not forget that teachers salaries are reported as if they were paid
> >for 260 days of work (5 business days for 52 weeks) when in pointof fact
> >they work 180 days. Thus a teachers salary is reported at $42,000 when in
> >point of fact they receive $24,000. For years my wife's W2 form said that
> >she was making $25,000 a year, but the school whined that teachers like
> >her were getting paid $50,000, they just didn't mention that teachers got
> >paid according to the number of days they taught and never saw the
> $50,000
>
> What? In my discussions and exp. the salaries are what teachers are paid
> for the work the are contracted to provide in a 12 month period. If
> teacher's salaries were reported the way you suggest they are, our local
> school district would say our teachers make over $100K/year, since the
> average (again, take with a grain of salt) salary in our district is over
> $64K/year - that is take-home pay (less taxes/union dues/etc). In other
> words, the average teacher has a pre-tax monthly paycheck of around
> $7K/month (assuming nine months worked).
>
> Lionel
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$64K TAKE HOME PAY!

Can I get a job teaching in your school district?

I don't make $64K per year working 52 weeks per year!
The average income in the USA was reported to be less than $50K gross per
year in the local newspaper!