Posted Aug-30-07 04:04:47 PDT
I am feeling depress this morning. I was driving and been thinking about how undervalue exceptional education teacher are. Yesterday, in the teachers meeting, my boss announce that she will not be doing the paperworks for Merit pay. They reason is that there is soooooo much paperworks and that we will not get 1 cent. The merit pay is bonus pay for the teacher according to how well the students did. The problem is the one that benefit are the regular teacher and not the exceptional education teacher. My boss said her friend who is exceptional education student for HS have student who is not potty trained and finally got them to to go potty and she got a student who wrote their name for the first time n 14 years and was turn down for the Merit pay. Our school have about 70 students but only 4 students count since they are from FL but they are mild mental retarded, deaf and servere emotional problem. One of them are ausitic. We do have normal deaf but none are from FL. So we are a "F" school based on those 4 kids. It didn't matter how much they improve, they must do the same as their peer because of the stupid law "No child left behind"
Then I was driving to school today and I realize something. If I get the same pay as general education teacher but they get merit bonus pay and we don't, then why is substiting teacher get more money. For regular students, they get pay $75.00 a day but for special need kids they get $100.00. The state and county know there is a big difference. Then I started the calucation, and I realize I make $32.00 more a day then the substitue and they don't have to do paperwork. They come in and then they leave when it is time. I come in do bunch of stuff. I stayed in late. I so far worked 12 hours for 3 days this week and will be doing it again tomorrow. And I have to work Saturday to get my paperwork done that is due on Tuesday. So I started thinking substitute teacher works 7 hours and I have already work 12 hours and there is $32.00 differences. So subtititue make about $14.00 an hour for 7 hours. And I made for 12 hours - $11.00. That is sooooo depressing!!!! And the total week I will work total is about 61 hours and I will make only $10.80. Something is wrong with the pictures!!! That is ONLY .80 more than my job as a bookkeeping at law office with working 8 hours instead of 12 hours a day to finished my work.
Now I am really depressed and I found out that I am not getting a raise this year at all. I have to wait until next Sept to get my raise when I started in April. I felt like crying. And I have to work 2nd job too!!!! I am going to be burned out!!!
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