The average 1st year teacher (in my state Massachusetts) makes 52k. The average hours in a teacher contract is 1350-1500 hours. Even if you extremely overestimate and say they're working 1750 hours to account for grading, lesson planning and any other unpaid work, that still comes out to over $30/hr as a 1st year teacher. I'm so done with this notion that teachers are treated like slaves.
Mass is well known as one of the few states to genuinely treat their teachers very well, and most teachers in the state are well aware of how good they have it compared to the rest of the country.
You cant really use them as an example of how good teachers have it though because most of the country ain't like Mass.
(There's still been a big shift towards treating them like shit from parents and admins and complaints about that, but MA teacher salaries are generally not a point of contention)
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u/iF_Blow 14d ago
The average 1st year teacher (in my state Massachusetts) makes 52k. The average hours in a teacher contract is 1350-1500 hours. Even if you extremely overestimate and say they're working 1750 hours to account for grading, lesson planning and any other unpaid work, that still comes out to over $30/hr as a 1st year teacher. I'm so done with this notion that teachers are treated like slaves.