I enjoy your email reports and always send them to my daughter (RASOTA grad 2017/UCLA 2021), currently a 7th/8th grade math teacher in Boston PS in her 3rd year of teaching, as a way to stay apprised of what’s happening in her hometown should she decide to teach upon returning home. Sadly, she’d take a 30% pay cut if she came back to teach in SFUSD vs BPS. We clearly don’t have the will to pay teachers here - and SFUSD will likely be missing out on a fantastic teacher.
Thanks. I strongly support raising teachers' salaries here not out of any worker-solidarity considerations but because if you're paying much less than the market wage, you're only going to be able to hire substandard talent. Neither the district or the union can make that argument, for obvious reasons, so it's a view that rarely gets expressed publicly.
I enjoy your email reports and always send them to my daughter (RASOTA grad 2017/UCLA 2021), currently a 7th/8th grade math teacher in Boston PS in her 3rd year of teaching, as a way to stay apprised of what’s happening in her hometown should she decide to teach upon returning home. Sadly, she’d take a 30% pay cut if she came back to teach in SFUSD vs BPS. We clearly don’t have the will to pay teachers here - and SFUSD will likely be missing out on a fantastic teacher.
Thanks. I strongly support raising teachers' salaries here not out of any worker-solidarity considerations but because if you're paying much less than the market wage, you're only going to be able to hire substandard talent. Neither the district or the union can make that argument, for obvious reasons, so it's a view that rarely gets expressed publicly.