In 1939 my mother was earning $90 a month for 9 months as a rural elementary teacher. (Thrree grades -- 3d,4th, 5th in a room; probably 40 students total.) In 1943 she found that the $1 a week allowance she planned to give me when I started 9th grade was too much of a strain.
Carrol
P.S. From a slightly different (and long range) perspective: Why should an electronics factory worker make less than a teacher?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
On
> Behalf Of Wojtek S
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 5:14 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Do teachers in the US of A make more than an
electronics
> factory worker?
>
> In the DC area teachers can make $100k if they have lifetime seniority.
The
> entry level pay is more like $40k. MD median wage is about $55k. In
other
> words, teachers don't make that much given their qualifications and unpaid
> overtime.
>
> Wojtek
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> On Sep 30, 2012 7:15 AM, "Fernando Cassia" <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There´s something odd about this ad from the Missouri lottery.
> > (yes, it´s Flash based)
> >
> >
> >
> http://s0.2mdn.net/ads/richmedia/studio/5166392/22165469_1347471984431_96
> 0x600.swf
> >
> > JPEG screenshot:
> > http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/4/shecouldbeateacher.jpg
> >
> > "You could be a millonaire. She could be a teacher...:" (pic of a woman
> > with a seemingly electronic circuit in her hand at what looks like a
> > factory background)
> >
> > Not to mention the fact that the ´circuit´ she´s ´assembling´ on a
> > breadboard seems like taken out of a high school "understanding
> > electronics" project (one led and some caps, and lots of wires ;).
> >
> > I thought teachers in the USA weren´t exactly well paid... ;) or perhaps
> > I´ve watched too many episodes of The Simpsons... So do electronics
factory
> > workers dream of being teachers?. Or is this a marketing department´s
dream
> > of the real world?. ;)
> >
> > FC
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