That's worse than Florida. Since I got laid-off, I've been teaching part
time (and consulting the rest of the time) at a local Technical college.
The pay is $20.00 per hour. Since the local School Board is now broke,
they want me to continue as a 'Long Term Substitute'. The pay is $75 for a
10 hour day - or $10 per hour!! That's terrible! I'm teaching Web design,
Java scripting, Photoshop, etc. for $10 an hour!!?? If that isn't bad
enough, they actually dock the first two weeks of pay to $60 per day then
they catch up by paying the "missing" $15 after 14 days.
Unreal!
Jim Caldwell
Original Message:
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From: Jan Steinman Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:27:49 -0800
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Teacher salaries
>From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>The standard substitute rate in my school district is $50.05 for a 7 1/2
>day, or $6.67 an hour.
That's below the Oregon minimum wage, where we have the nation's highest
hunger level. :-(
But hey, you need FIVE YEARS of college to be a certified teacher in Oregon.
My friend "only" has a college degree, so she cannot legally teach.
Instead, she is making Oregon minimum wage ($6.80, I think) thanks to Mr.
Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" (a.k.a. "Title One"). She "assists"
(since she cannot legally teach) teachers (who are not present) with
problem children, teaching them to read for 15 hours a week maximum.
Strange, but under Oregon law, if she were working just 16 hours a week,
she would qualify to PURCHASE teacher's health insurance. So she remains
uninsured.
I think this should really be called the "Break the Backs of Teachers
Unions By Replacing Them With Minimum Wage (No Benefits) College Graduates
Who Are Desperate For Work Act".
But of course, all of us on this list are certainly in the top 10f wage
earners who got 950f Bush's tax breaks, so we don't really care.
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