| > You can absolutely be fired for cause as a tenured teacher in California, and it happens all the time. It's certainly more difficult than most other professions, but there is no law or policy preventing teachers from being fired. Possible ? Yes. Does it happen often ? No. You can read this LA times article for detailed statistics. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-03-me-teach... > 3.After a 10 years of service, a teacher with a masters degree in my area makes $63K/year. Adjusting to a 12 month schedule, they'd be paid $75K year. With only a BA that drops to $54K. Hard to argue they are overpaid at that rate IMO. I agree here. Teachers in public school are not overpaid. It is mostly the rest of the public schooling system that is bloated and overpaid but not teachers. Teachers in public schools end up spending more than 8 hours per day on school related activities and have to struggle even to get a day off as they need to find a substitute. The rest of the non teaching staff however is mostly bloated and is a jobs program for adults. Some of them directly hurt the learning and teaching process and yet have massive power over teachers. > the rank and file make on average 25-30% less than they could in private industry. True. But most of them will be unemployable in private sector due to sheer incompetence and actual accountability. |
The LA Unified District has 25K teachers...and 50K administrative staff. Moving onto universities, Penn State has 8000 Academic Staff... and 17,000 administrative staff. The bloat is obscene.