$100K average salary, tiny to no contributions for the best health insurance in the state, summers off, winter and spring vacation, insane style job security and a ginormous state tax payor funded pension plan waiting for them at age 55! Is being a teacher the best job in the country? Might be.
With IL schools failing our kids, with public worker pension funds sucking up 65% of the tax dollars, it's LIBERAL INSANITY to pay these teachers like this. No merit pay and little ability to fire teachers. I mean wouldn't it be better to pay teachers less and god sake on MERIT, make them at will employees, have more TAs and tutors and have MORE teachers, than paying less teachers bloated salaries?
It's insane, but that is liberalism for you.
With IL schools failing our kids, with public worker pension funds sucking up 65% of the tax dollars, it's LIBERAL INSANITY to pay these teachers like this. No merit pay and little ability to fire teachers. I mean wouldn't it be better to pay teachers less and god sake on MERIT, make them at will employees, have more TAs and tutors and have MORE teachers, than paying less teachers bloated salaries?
It's insane, but that is liberalism for you.
Teachers at Fenton, Maine Township schools average more than $100,000 - DailyHerald.com
The state figures reveal two districts Maine Township High School District 207 and Fenton High School District 101 have cracked the $100,000 salary barrier, with Maine teachers averaging $108,336 and Fenton teachers at $101,084.
But it also shows several districts not far away from six figures: Teachers at Stevenson High School District 125 average $94,876, followed by Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 at $93,806 and Northwest Suburban High School District 214 at $91,997.
Its no coincidence the highest-paid teachers come from districts comprised exclusively of high schools, as teacher pay there usually outpaces that of elementary school teachers. And the reasons for Maine and Fenton districts being at the top are varied and unique.
But the numbers spark discussion on a hot-button issue: Are we paying our teachers too much, not enough? And should their raises continue to outpace many in the private sector in a struggling economy?
How they got there
Report card data show average teacher salaries increased almost 10 percent this year at Park Ridge-based Maine Township. District administrators say that figure was inflated when a number of nontenured, lower-paid teachers were laid off last year. The district laid off 75 teachers after the union declined to reopen its five-year contract, which expires next year.
Under that contract, a first-year teacher with a bachelors degree, typically the lowest earner in a school district, made $51,961 in salary and pension contributions during the 2010-2011 school year. That number exceeds the average salaries in some suburban school districts.