Asked by
ABC 17 News
Is $40,000 enough for a minimum teacher salary?
Yes
No
The teachers work way too hard and deal with way too much much for the pay they get. They teach the children of what is going to be our future leaders and I want them to have the best possible education.
Reply
If MIssouri had public school choice, with tax dollars following student, the best teachers would get paid more because more students would attend their schools. Teachers put up with too many behavior problems in schools and too many bad parents. NEA does not care about kid's education. FJB
I'm a teacher. And Missouri's retirement system takes 14.5% off the top without permission. We work hard but we are hardly left with a living wage.
Reply
In 1989 the min teacher's salary for the state of MO was 18,000. Using an inflation calculator it would be approximately 43,500 today. Many teachers work 2nd or Summer jobs to supplement their salaries.
Reply
Is this question really needing to be asked? Really ? This is what society is reduced to? Paying football and baseball and a host of other sports players HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS PER GAME OF 3 OR 4 HOURS duration all the while paying first responders and K thru 12 educators pennies... Really?
Reply
There should be no government mandated minimum. Market forces should set the salary. It was either Walter E. Williams or Thomas Sowell, both esteemed black college professors, who said it best: Colleges of Education (teacher schools) are the "academic slums" of the University. Paid accordingly.
Reply40K?!?!? Its more than enough. GORSH, I'd say just giving them a cheese sandwich is enough. If you send your children into the care of another, you do not love your children.
Reply