Comments on: Top 100 Teacher Salaries For 2009 Average $160,000

By: bill jones

bill jones — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:37:33 +0000

If by chance pay was this high, I would quit working at my tenure university position and go that high school and earn bank.

These figures are lies.

I cannot duplicate their results.

By: bill jones

bill jones — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:36:04 +0000

I am a mathematician and a physicist with a master’s in mathematical physics.

I cannot duplicate these calculations.

They are not right.

Do not believe them, please.

By: John Powers

John Powers — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:40:48 +0000

Paul,

Both Mayor Daley’s are Democrats. Rev. Meeks is a Democrat. The school reform movement is being led by Democrats; it is also being opposed by Democrats.

The proposition that the Republicans control much of anything in Illinois is absurd.

JBP

By: Paul McGrath

Paul McGrath — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:27:50 +0000

Great idea! Let’s go back to the time when the school system was just another City Hall department run by the real Mayor Daley and his cronies. Everything’ll be just fine then. Teachers and principals were just patronage employees. In addition to protecting and bargaining for the teachers, the unions provide a countervailing force to the politicians. Let’s stop dumping on the teachers. The Republicans are just trying to destroy the public school system.

By: Ferris

Ferris — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:00:50 +0000

It’s time to start flushing out the overpaid teachers. First step dump the unions. Teachers should be paid on performance not a union scale. So when little Johnny can’t read I’m not paying top dollar. Every teacher I know thinks they are over worked and underpaid. Maybe the newbie’s are underpaid but NO teacher is worth 100K. The CPS is a mess and yet we keep feeding the system. What’s wrong with this picture? The rest of us in corporate America bust our rear ends YEAR round hoping to have a job next week. If we don’t perform we are tossed out on the street why should it be different for any other public employee? I just want to gag every time I hear teacher talk how bad it is…life sucks, get over it. I know the students are little animals try dealing with management in the real world. It’s almost to the point I want to set aside my work ethic and hop on the gravy train. It’s time the public takes a little interest in what are getting for the money.

By: John Powers

John Powers — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:51:55 +0000

Why should teachers get paid more than architects…more than electrical engineers…more than many other professions? Retire at age 52? Work 9 months a year?

If you don’t like you lawyer, you can hire another one. If you don’t like your teacher, how do you make a change? You still have to pay, whether you use the school or not.

Perhaps some people do not want to be in this job because it is run like a racket rather than a profession.

JBP

By: Interested

Interested — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:52:39 +0000

If the author thinks the job is so easy why didn’t he get a teaching certificate? Not that bright? Not willing to work 12-16 hr. days? Oh, I get it, the author could be a lawyer and charge clients $300 hr. and only puts in 20 minutes an hour of work to get that fee and gets paid whether or not he loses the case. Or, how about a factory worker who gets paid double time? Or, how about the radiologist who gets 1 million a year for looking at pictures? Oh yeah, I get it, let’s pay the teachers minimum wage and then wonder why Little Johnny can’t add, spell or know where New York is? Give me a break. Don’t talk about winning schools if you are not willing to pay winning salaries. You get out of something exactly what you put into it. Tell me, author, where did your kids go to school?

By: Curious

Curious — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:45:47 +0000

If the pay is so great and the work is so easy, why doesn’t the author or anyone else go into the profession ?

By: Mike F

Mike F — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:26:27 +0000

This is going to set he populists on fire. For generations, the typical response to failing schools was “Fund our underfunded district!” and “Teachers should be paid more than plummers!”

I believe starting salaries at CPS are in the neighborhood of $35,000 which is actually pretty meager. I wonder how long it takes to get six figures at CPS.