Teachers at my old high school make 78K per year

That is not bad but most teachers are poor and they usually need their masters in education.

Did you mean to type too bad, dear?

"A while" = decades, OP. In most places, 78K is an end-of-career salary. And, statistically speaking, the majority of teachers don't make it that long, and thus never reach that level.

There does seem to be a cap r3. Two teachers I know who started 20 years ago make the same as two teachers who started like 35 years ago or more.

These teachers you speak of clearly didn't teach you grammar, they're not worth it. Where I come from teachers start on about $60,000 and once they've been there for 10 years get $100, 000, and more if they're head of a department

No amount of money would make me be a teacher. Teachers deserve medals for putting up with the shit kids give them these days, not to mention parents and colleagues too.

R5, where is that?

Australia

[quote]These teachers you speak of clearly didn't teach you grammar, they're not worth it.

OMG r5 you critiqued someone's grammar in a haughty manner and made a grammatical error yourself-----------RUN ON SENTENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How embarrassing for you.

OMG it's a fucking joke, get over yourself.

In actual fact it was correct, because the run on sentence was punctuated with a comma

run-on sentence. A grammatically faulty sentence in which two or more main or independent clauses are joined without a word to connect them or a punctuation mark to separate them:

HOW EMBARRASSING FOR YOU!

OMG [R9] you critiqued someone's grammar in a haughty manner when there was nothing wrong with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - !!!!!

How embarrassing for you.

Yes, I noticed his run-ons. Twice he made the error.

That's well bad. Take the shame.

Ain't karma a cunt

You people realise run on sentences can be separated correctly with a comma,?

the teachers in my town get 90k a year. rich bitches.

Of course, it depends on where you live. $ 60,000 in SF is poverty.

Or; R16; with a semi colin;

I had a friend who started teaching in NC, her starting salary was a paltry 30k, and she was working herself to bone while barely able to make it financially.

That teachers in the US, who have the lives of children in their hands, are paid so little, is a disgrace.

That grammar troll @ R5 should have put a semicolon or a dash after "grammar" OR the word so: "so they're not worth it."

[quote]Why do they say teachers get so little? Is it much lower in other areas?

holy shit, you're stupid.

Teachers in NY make a lot of money. I know three people who are teachers and are making $120 - $150k for working 180 days a year.

They deserve that much for the hazard pay alone

Teachers work more than 180 days. That’s the minimum student days, not teachers. You are also not counting the ridiculous amount of unpaid after-school and weekends teachers spend working.

NYC top salary after 22 years completed and a master plus 30 credits just got a pay increase 2/14 to $121,000. You want to teach in NYC? Good luck with your first year, much less 22.