3 months of not filing weekly claims, may require a retroactive form at this point though

I'd not be so nonchalant about life changing money, but that's just me.

Also, increase opportunities for salary increases over time. Due to the school district just deciding to not play nice with the teacher’s union, my mom’s last 5-10 years of teaching was at the same rate, and about half of that was without an active contract.

But don’t worry. They had enough money for a brand new turfed up football stadium

I'm not in a super hurry for this, but the 5,070 would definitely be life changing. I want a retroactive form or whatever it is so I know at least that I'll get this money

Exactly.

They are paid at a reasonable rate for their number of days worked.

Stop treating them like they are worthless. Pay them a lot more. Don't blame them for your kid not doing well (it's not just your kid they have to deal with). Teach your kids to not be assholes. Don't expect them to buy supplies for their classes in school, fund the things they need to do their jobs.

Yeah, and they get paid to take on those extra responsibilities.

Haha and chaise lounge bikini? Don't know where you're getting that from. I'll get 15 days off next year (but probably take 10 or less). That's it. And I largely work when on vacation as necessary.

Work is quite literally my life. What I'm saying is market teaching as a profession where your career isn't so totally all-consuming. That could attract people who are interested in it, not purely driven by the financial upside, and who value their relative freedom and time more.

Writing courses, in their many forms, are much more useful than the binary view would make them. Same with any number of other courses that not only round you out as a person but also helps you think beyond the binary world of physics/math/engineering.

You selected the courses you now describe as useless but you must have viewed them as worthy when you selected them, non? If anything, you should have used them to help bolster your GPA.

Not dismissive. It's important work.

Just contesting that it's underpaid. If you look at the hourly rate, it's up there with many other professions.

My daughter forgot for over a year, when she renewed it didn't even charge her for the unregistered year, just current. As if it never happened.

Please refrain from blaming owners or advocates of the breed, that is a very unfair statement to make. Why punish the dog for the deeds done by humans? These dogs end up aggressive & unsocialized sent to shelters & euthanized more so than any other breed… and yes because of poor owners- humans…. They are subjected to Dog fighting, Baiting, Backyard breeding, Abuse, Statvation & Torture…… etc. THOSE ARE THE MONSTERS WHO NEED LEGAL CHARGES & PUNISHMENT BUT OUR LAWMAKERS HAVE NO LAWS IN PLACE TO PROSECUTE THEM…. Like we SHOULD. 💔😭

Many, maybe most, teachers don't get 4 months off.

They get 4 months to work another job.

Many of the ones who take the summer off have other sources of money, inheritance or a well-off spouse.

I saw a guy say he’s making 90k, that’s more monthly than senior electrical engineer roles pay in pa if it’s broken done by hours worked per year. They seem to be paid ok, but you’ll just get down voted

I agree writing courses can be useful. But in a field like physics, I should need to take a creative writing course. I also had to take a technical writing course that was much more useful and appropriate.

As far as the others, yes, they were from a menu of elective courses I had to take, but my point was they're not related to the major and I've never needed to know a damn thing from them. I spent a ton of money and wasted a lot of time on courses I didn't need. It's a common practice at universities that has to end as part of a reformation to make education more affordable.

Don't consider. Do. At one point in my life we were dealing with the same issues with unemployment and one call to my state reps office, gave them my info, and magically I didn't even have to call the UI office, they called me, said everything was taken care of and I started receiving checks within a week. This was in Indiana not PA. But the basic factors are the same.

Pay a decent wage, fund the damn schools, resist the policy bullshit other states are forcing into the schools.

Writing courses should be part of every field of study. I suspect the other 2 you selected from a menu of courses that included history and maybe a language?

I don't think you'll find it more affordable in PA based on the information provided. You should also prepare yourself for a property you look at being considerably older, attached to other homes (look up row homes in PA), and the overall quality of the homes is much much lower because they are much much older. Rent for a decent place even in rural areas an hour outside of Philly, etc.. can still run $1500/mo. Newer built communities like condos easily run $2k/mo. You can certainly find less expensive places but I've seen a few that were barely habitable still asking $900/mo.

The home quality and conveniences you are used to seeing in AZ as the "status quo" will be a very expensive high rent place in PA generally speaking.

PA was basically built in the beginning of the start of the country, Arizona at the end. It's common for the place you are looking at to be 100+ years old with antiquated electric/plumbing/heating/cooling and smaller size-wise, lots of stairs, poor use of space... limited or no parking... unless it's new construction, in which case it will be more expensive yet.

Having lived in multiple states across the US and traveled a lot for work across the entire US. I will never move back to PA once we leave. It's just too old, too conservative, too expensive to be worth it compared to all the options.

Which is so fucked given that there were teachers making six figures in the school district I grew up in (lower merion)

Wow, not one truth in that nonsense

Wow, why you gotta lie like that? All that shits been proven false

What metrics would be used to justify wage increases beyond cost of living adjustments?

That's a masters, plus 45 with 10 years served. Hardly worth it and that's at a better school district.

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They don’t it doesn’t happen everyday…. It’s not a common occurrence at all.