[geeks] Teachers

[Hicheal Morton]

1)  a friend, whose wife is a special ed, set up a non-profit to cover the
supplies they purchase from their own money.  they make a tax-deductible
donation to the non-profit and the non-profit buys the materials.  (yes, a
tax-deduction is not a tax-credit--but that is better than $0.)

the point is there are methods to mitigate the personal money spent for
public use.

2)  since the USA tax codes does not permit tax deductions on personal
monies spent for the job until 2% of gross is reached, it is apparent that
the USA government expects workers to put in 2% of their own money toward
direct job related expenses.  this includes teachers.  (we spend at least 2%
a year--last year it was about 5-6%.)

3)  USA law also permits certain professions to work overtime for no pay.
when some one agrees to work in one of these "certain" professions, they are
agreeing to overtime.  that's why i choose a title other than
"administrator"--administrators are expected to work free overtime.
technicians or techologists don't

my apologies to the outraged teachers, et al.  The tax codes were written by
democrats, by the way--REALLY taking care of the little man, aren't they.





On 9/9/07, Geoff Reed <geoffr at zipcon.net> wrote:
>
> Here in Washington, the bethel, Issaquah and Shoreline school districts
> just
> recently walked out (didn't start) classes on the day they were supposed
> to.
> The issues were:
>
> A: healthcare
> And
> B: Cost of Living raises.
>
> The school districts were saying that to pay the teachers the cost of
> living
> wage increases, the teaches would have to pay 20-30% of the cost of their
> healthcare above any they were already paying, the problem with that is
> that
> what they district wanted them to pay for the healthcare was MORE than the
> cost of living raises that the legislature passed last year for teachers.
>
> My ex was (and presumedly still is ) a full-time school teacher, she made
> around 30K a year (40K on a good year).  ($15 to 20 an hour) unless she
> was
> teaching "at risk" kids (formerly known as juvenile deliquents) then she
> got
> a couple dollars more an hour.  She's been teaching for about 10 years,
> and
> in addition the the bachelors she had to have to get the job, and the
> certifications, she has done another 2 to 3 years worth of classes to keep
> her certification current.  The district she is teaching in paus their
> teachers only in the months that school is in session, yet when reporting
> teacher wages they multiply the base wage by a full years worth of hours
> (2080) and report THAT as the pay that the teachers are making.
>
> And the argument that teachers only work 180 days out of the year?  She
> was
> working on class stuff on the weekends during the school year and they
> were
> getting a deal the times she has worked salaried, as it only works out to
> 8
> hrs a day 5 days a week max that the salary equals if she was hourly, as
> she
> averaged 10 or 11 hr days, 6 or 7 days a week. (and had to buy much of the
> materials used in the classroom herself)
>
> At the same time the administration staff (including maintenance people)
> and
> superintendents of the 3 districts mentioned earlier all got raises and
> they
> would not have to pay any of their own healthcare costs, only the
> teachers.
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