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and reminder that the opportunity cost of a few days’ strike is far outweighed by teachers being overworked to the bone without adequate compensation or psychological support, resulting in the best teachers weeding themselves out of the field altogether.
anti-union sentiment is hurting kids.
What ended up making me quit was the bureaucracy. The low pay, on it's own, was awful, but I was willing to put up with it.
Getting screamed at by some office worker because they didn't like how I chose to fill out an attendance report made me go "This is not worth it. I'm better than this."
I was making $16.50 an hour teaching in the early 2000s. I'm now making just under $70 an hour working in the profession I was teaching.
Part time math tutor for trig & algebra [or higher] you can get $50+/hr working 1099 for yourself. [might start lower, bc remembering now was able to jack up the rate bc the recommendations]