Devaluing Veteran Teachers – Looking at the Proposed NCGA Salary Schedule for 2019-2020

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Want to see how this NCGA values its teachers, especially its veterans?

Below is the proposed salary schedule just released this week for 2019-2020.

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Look at it this way. For the first 15 years of a career in NC, a teacher will receive a 1,000 raise for each year. It will go from $35,000 to $50,000.

In Years 16-20, a teacher will make $50,500 – each year. No raises within that time. And a $500 raise overall compared to Year 15.

In Years 21-24, a teacher will make $51,500 – each year. No raises within that time. That’s a $1,500 raise compared to Year 15 and a $1,000 raise compared to Year 20.

In Years 25+, a teacher will make $52,600 – for the rest of his/her career.

Granted, that schedule may change in the next year or years, but it proves one thing: this NCGA does not value veteran teachers.

Look at the salary schedule above just based on raises.

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Now consider there is no longer longevity pay and that all teachers now coming into the profession in NC will be on an “A” certificate because of the removal of graduate pay.

And the consider this.

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This NCGA budget proposal is a slap in the face of veteran teachers.

 

One thought on “Devaluing Veteran Teachers – Looking at the Proposed NCGA Salary Schedule for 2019-2020”

  1. My undergraduate degree is in education. I am not teaching and have not done so in over 20 years. This is part of the reason why. Mad respect to the teachers out there still kicking it despite the lack of respect, resources, benefits, and well-deserved raises. Let’s not forget the benefits package continues to get cut. Classrooms are overflowing with 30+ students and there’s no money to have an assistant. And don’t get me started on the ridiculous testing, Common Core, and the blasted Eureka math that, I, a Masters degreed parent, a veteran whose job was navigation and full of algebraic equations, had to sit down with my child 2-3 hours per night learning with him so I could help him. If the powers that be would just quit spending useless money on those asinine programs and constantly trying to change things for “the better “, and listen to the folks in the trenches-teachers, parents, students, and faculty trying to raise their village, get back to basics, get school books back in schools, we might just get somewhere with taking care of our teachers and staff who are sick and tired of being left behind and blamed for the problems in the system!

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