1srelluc
Diamond Member
If the teacher job fairs were filled to the brim and teachers who have jobs were bitching about the pay, while quickly signing their new contracts every year, you'd have a point.
That used to happen but now it doesn't. Teachers are voting with their feet that the compensation is inadequate for what they are now asked to do.
RELATED: Task force created to find out how to keep teachers in classrooms
Here's a breakdown of all five of the area's largest districts:
- HISD: 880
- CFISD: 472
- Fort Bend ISD: 275
- Aldine ISD: 409
- Katy ISD: 200
Here are all the teacher vacancies at Houston-area school districts
Districts are dealing with shortages among school bus drivers in addition to teachers.www.khou.com
Pay barely goes up year-to-year, which is fine when we don't have a federal government that insists on inflating the money and at the same time raising taxes on the middle class. But now a 3% pay increase amounts to a pay cut, and the easiest way to get a pay raise is to go work in a field that pays more.