Jake_FromStateFarm27

Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu6umdp wrote

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.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu5fmos wrote

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!

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu515qa wrote

>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.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4yh7g wrote

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.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4uq1c wrote

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.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4tc5o wrote

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.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_iu4n1as wrote

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.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_isz5shi wrote

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.

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Jake_FromStateFarm27 t1_isld59n wrote

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.

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