No Respect for Teachers in the USA. Why?

Almost half of the teachers in Township High School District 113, including Highland Park High School, took home six-figure salaries. (Michael Tercha, Chicago Tribune / July 11, 2010)

An extraordinary number of public school teachers in the Chicago region earned $100,000 or more in 2009, straining school budgets and taxpayer wallets and fueling the debate over what teachers are worth and how they get raises.

In the affluent enclaves of Highland Park and Deerfield, almost half the teachers in Township High School District 113 took home six-figure salaries — the highest percentage in the state.
In Park Ridge and Hinsdale, about 43 percent of high school district teachers earned $100,000 or more, according to a Chicago Tribune salary analysis.

Six-figure teacher salaries of that magnitude are rare elsewhere in Illinois and in most parts of the country.

—About 4 percent of teachers statewide earned $100,000 or more — 5,457 teachers — but the vast majority worked in the Chicago suburbs, with heavy concentrations in north Cook, DuPage and Lake counties. In all, 32 Chicago-area districts paid at least 20 percent of their teachers six figures — five times the state average.

—Districts used taxpayer dollars to pay $100,000 salaries even as they struggled with red ink. A third of districts with unusually high concentrations of teachers making six figures — at least 10 percent of teachers — posted operating deficits in 2008-09, according to state financial data.

—Six-figure teachers were unevenly distributed, with high school teachers making up 60 percent of the group — more than double their representation in the teaching force. Affluent suburban districts had the largest concentrations of six-figure teachers. Less than 1 percent of Chicago Public School teachers earned $100,000 or more in 2009.
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we the taxpayiers not so much. 90K pay means about 97K cost to the state with taxes or $48.50 / hour that the teach takes home.

Since when does any worker take home the taxes their employer pay? Just curious hawk.

Average compensation package here is $96,500.

A breakdown of teachers salaries focusing on the % of teachers with 6-figure incomes.

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Less than 1 percent of Chicago Public School teachers earned $100,000 or more in 2009.

(If your district pays for retirement,
and if salaries in the schedule do not include retirement, please add the retirement dollars to the salaries when reporting in Part D.)

Is there a reason that special and exceptional respect

Is there a reason that special and exceptional respect

Yes, it is a challenging and noble profession.
It is in service to the collective good more so than most work...

Do u feel noble when u give someone information

Do u feel noble when u give someone information

Education is not the providing of information, it is the training of minds.
Doing this well is critical to the success of our civilization,
and doing this well takes a great deal of skill.

If someone asks me which way is North
and I tell him, does that make me Noble ?

If someone asks me which way is North
and I tell him, does that make me Noble ?

that is not teaching

When we created government in America,
after we threw out the English, did we grant it jurisdiction
to interfere with the minds of the citizens????

When we created government in America,
after we threw out the English, did we grant it jurisdiction
to interfere with the minds of the citizens????

I think that any teacher will tell you that one can not teach a person who has not consented to be taught.