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This public info. is on the internet for my area and I will try to find it again and provide a link later.
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Please do, as that's just not believable.
Not to rain on your dream, but you are not the first to try and find this elusive dream situation. Many have looked before, and many will look in the future. It just doesn't happen.
GOOD teachers put a lot of time in at home. Those that do not, are usually incompetent, or are pacing the class at his/her speed, rather than the proper speed.
Part of the lure of government employment is the stability. In fact, this, and a great health/dental/insurance plan are used to counter the "underpaid" theme. I remember in the late '90s that teachers (and other public employees) were bitching that they were underpaid, and they couldn't take advantage of this or that that the private sector had... Funny how they all shut up completely when the private sector started tossing people on the street. They wanted to share in the reward, but not the risk...
Every career has its advantages and disadvantages. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it sure can take the sting off misery!
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This is the main site: [url]http://thechampion.org/schools/salaries.asp[/url]
Top Teacher salaries in my area: [url]http://thechampion.org/teach2002/TopTeach.asp[/url]
Top Administrator salaries in my area (unbelievable): [url]http://thechampion.org/teach2002/TopAdmin.asp[/url]
Admittedly, the NE IL area is a generally upper middle income area with the usual overpriced housing, (I currently live with my parents[:D]), so things in rural areas w/o much of a tax base will be very different. Almost 70 percent of our property taxes go to education here, in addition to state and now with Bill Clinton and President George Bush and Congress using more from federal income taxes, that money comes too.
Edited to add: Holy crap! I just looked up my sophmore year PE teacher that also has 29 years, and a Master's. $100,004 last year!
I should've taken up teaching. Of course the cost to get the Master's (which is, ironically high because of [i]college[/i] [i]teachers[/i] and [i]administrators[/i] and other college expenses, is a big thing to figure in, or take out of earnings, at least temporarily, (until you pay it off).