The Average Teacher in Detroit Earns $97,000 Per Year?

Question

I hope you're not as poor as you have been led to believe teachers are.

Do you get paid nearly as well?

Answer 1

Can you say, "Hazard Pay". I doubt it's 97k.. probably 57k...

Answer 2

$3

Answer 3

Detroit is a perfect example of the fallacy that throwing money at the schools will fix them. Putting discipline back into the schools needs to be step one of ANY program designed to improve performance. If teachers are afraid of getting raped, mugged, or killed, they cannot teach. We need corporal punishment in the elementary schools and in-school suspensions with additional work assigned on weekend days in the higher grades.

Further, high school graduates who cannot read are simply unacceptable. There should be hard and fast goals for each grade level, and if Junior can't meet them, he doesn't get promoted, self-esteem be damned. I don't care if he's a 17 year-old third grader...if he can't multiply 3x3, he stays in the third grade until he can, period.

Answer 4

That's probably a teacher who is close to retiring. Also, you have to look at the environment in which they are required to work. It is simply incorrect to believe the average teacher earns that much pay anywhere in the United States. And no one said teachers are poor, they are simply under-paid and under-appreciated.

Answer 5

If they're teaching in Detroit, they deserve $197,000 a year. Seriously, I doubt that is true. The last I heard the highest paid teachers are in Colorado... lowest paid in Mississippi.

Answer 6

Teachers constantly whine about their salaries, even though they make good money for a part time job.

Where I live 90% of the school money is going for teacher's salaries and the schools are falling apart due to lack of funds for maintenance.

It goes to show you what a powerful public union can do - and it's not there to help the school kids.

Answer 7

Good for them. In my opinion, they're still underpaid