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[QUOTE="husky429, post: 4821352, member: 6696"]
Teachers aren't paid enough for the amount of work they have to do. Particularly at the elementary level.

Many quit or become specialists who work with small groups only. 25+ kids is hard. Add in behavior problems and SRBI, difficult parents, the insane amount planning and testing, differentiating for ELs and SPED students, and people on the admin side asking for more, more and more... it's tough to bear. This isn't even taking into account that teaching reading and math well is HARD on the best of days.

I had a pretty sweet gig teaching and had no intention of going to the admin side. But when someone offers you a 45k pay raise and a job where you can go to the bathroom when you want to, it's hard to say no.

It takes a long, long time to get up to that top step making 95k for teachers. And that's in CT where we're paid well! I make more now than my BIL and SIL from NC combined, and they've been teachers for 25 and 10 years each.
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