Jake_FromStateFarm27
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu6umdp wrote
Reply to comment by jkurl1195 in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
They were supposed to offer the districts health benefits and they were not, it was completely different. The issue with wages is the state requires that subs that work more than 30 days in one school/district they are supposed to transition you onto a salary plan, ESS did not despite working a year in one school. ESS sucks.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu6oudx wrote
Reply to comment by hooter1112 in Best places near North Jersey for fall foliage scenery this weekend? Bonus points if drones are allowed. by Derpbae
Harriman will probably have less traffic, Ramapo (although Ramapoo is pretty funny) gets busy this time of year.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu6fs44 wrote
Reply to comment by CreatrixAnima in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
Granted it is private, they still have to follow labor laws.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu5t210 wrote
Reply to comment by Basedrum777 in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
You're going from 2 years ago to twenty years ago man.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu5mvt3 wrote
Reply to comment by Basedrum777 in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
Nope it wasn't it's always been 85 min as I subbed in college years ago.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu5fmos wrote
Reply to comment by CreatrixAnima in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
Subbing starts at $85 thats a state law, please report the district to the state or DOE. Companies like ESS keep getting away with this because people never bother to report it. They screwed me over with health benefits I was never offered for a year long position!
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu526qn wrote
Reply to comment by daedalus_was_right in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
And dealing with 25+ students by ourselves with almost a quarter of them now "requiring" an iep/504 and having to provide accommodations as well as make the plans.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu515qa wrote
Reply to comment by theusernameicreated in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
>New teachers start at $50,000. Teachers make $150,000+ at the end of their careers. This is for 9 months worth of work.
Admin... also as I explained in seperate comment most teachers are working long term sub positions well before they are hired full time and they make less than 30k a year... it's also fairly presumptious and generous to say teachers are making 150k+ by the end of their career. What you don't realize is that's multiple masters/graduate credits, a PhD, coaching and all other additional work by year 40 if you're lucky at that point. Another fellow teacher already commented that most masters aren't even pushing salary past 65k which is ridiculous especially since we are still paying for it unlike in NY which makes districts pay for it since the state requires teachers to have a masters, they are also getting the fair pay bump in most districts outside the city as well.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4yh7g wrote
Reply to comment by sutisuc in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
Higher pay means nothing when everything is inflated. Same thing with California has been going on for ages, teachers there make 100k+ but the COL and everything else just costs too much to be sustainable. Teachers on average nationally have seen the lowest salary growth the past 30 if not 50 years. Teachers wages need to be substantially revamped as well as other sustainability programs that would help alleviate things from their budget i.e. maybe special housing loans similar to what vets get so teachers can actually teach in the communities they live affordably and not have to commute from over an hour away.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4uq1c wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
There's been an excess of humanities teachers specifically the past 30+ years not so much in the STEM department. Just because there are a lot of teachers doesn't mean they should be paid less either. No big reform is gonna happen anytime soon that will actually benefit education or teachers. If anything we are seeing the opposite happen across the nation, many states are lowering standards for certification to be a teacher from a bachelors to just a HS diploma and states like Florida are just taking veterans or reservists to fill classrooms as normal (not even stationing additional vets for aiding since they have no clue what they are doing). An excess of highly skilled and educated professionals is good and we should be maintaining that standard especially since the average classroom size is getting bigger every year in most places.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4tc5o wrote
Reply to comment by Dirtycoinpurse in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
Yep also lots of districts hiring long term leave replacements are significantly underpaying them (still paying per diem after 30 days as well which is illegal in NJ) as well as avoiding giving them health insurance (also illegal if they've been working 30 days).
Just some math for those that do not understand how shitty it is to be a sub. Pre covid subs were making min $80-90 per diem during covid it was around 165 and 200 for working in unsafe conditions, now it's back down to 100 per diem. Let's assume a sub is working the whole month for $100 per diem, that's roughly $2500 per month (and even less since they don't get paid holidays like regular staff and only 1 sick day per month), that's less than 30k annually closer to 20 k really because of summer and winter breaks.
There are lots of people that wanna become teachers that didn't go to school for it or are even unsure and subbing is really the only way to get that experience. For many professional teachers this is also the only way we find permanent work and it's by means not sustainable at all in a state like NJ.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4o33b wrote
Reply to comment by cody0341 in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
Stfu we all work during the summers planning for the new year and have to take second jobs to afford living in this state. We either have to budget for several months or take a decrease in monthly payments just to get a pay check from July to August.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4n1as wrote
Reply to Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
Friendly reminder there is no teacher shortage, it's an exodus. There are plenty of experienced professionals like myself in this state willing to work that are neither treated or paid fairly.
We teachers are completely under paid in this state (especially for young new teachers) that it makes it extremely difficult to build a life here as well as being expected to fix everything but without any power to do so. Students have zero accountability nowadays with parents and admin completely enabling it, making learning impossible and our job that much more difficult.
NJ needs to do better, people have to start actually listening and taking teachers (not admin or politicians) more seriously.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_isz5shi wrote
Reply to comment by 6Emptybottles in How transit can change an area: Port Imperial, Weehawken, NJ. by Tayo826
Ya well we need more housing in the state in order for prices to go down. It's incredibly expensive for many NJ natives to live in this state unless we all become doctors or engineers. For example as a young teacher It's incredibly difficult to afford living within an hour distance of most school districts, most my friends that are living alone are commuting almost 2 hours just to live semi affordably. Increasing housing supply (which means building more high density housing in the form of apartments or multi family homes) is the one of the few effective ways to combat rising costs of housing.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_ism43mn wrote
Reply to comment by jmur89 in Stay away jersey is closed for the season by ophidiophobia_py_dev
Elevation I would agree with most places, but most of NJ is below sea level and many already visit places like highpoint so a great deal of the state is "accessible" to a degree.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_isld59n wrote
Reply to comment by Dick_Demon in Stay away jersey is closed for the season by ophidiophobia_py_dev
Its a part of a conservation movement in reference to the saying "leave no trail behind" its evolved to include digital trails as well. I'm actually kinda in favor of it as the more tourists in a natural the more garbage there tends to be, more pollution, and the general wildlife gets more disturbed. Stairway to heaven used to be empty years ago during peak foliage season, if you drive there any weekend this time of year now it's swarmed by people in line taking photos for their Instagram. There's overall nothing wrong with sharing spots or trails but social media like reddit and insta have exacerbated it and caused a lot of damage to natural areas. I like to have some spaces left in jersey that are still preserved and have some semblance of serenity left.
Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu6xz5r wrote
Reply to comment by CreatrixAnima in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
The law is for substitutes it does not distinguish between the two, I was subbing in 2017 as well. Did you perhaps not have a county/sub cert or no other state licenses at the time?