Comment by Izikiel43
4 days ago
> WA teachers compensated about the same as other similarly educated professionals
WA teachers are among the best salaries in the country for being a teacher (within top 5). You start at around 84k$ I think, 90k$+ if you have a masters degree, at least in Seattle, and it can scale up to 150k$ with enough seniority, as well as pension plan.
> Hire smart motivated people, pay them well, leave them alone, they’ll figure this one out. It’s not hard, anyone can google what Finland does.
The problem is not the teachers themselves, it's what the system tells them to teach. You can have the best teacher in the world, but if they use BS curricula students will unfortunately learn BS.
Think about it, you can have brilliant engineers, but an idiot ceo, and the company will fail despite the engineers.
What I'm hearing is "teachers just outside Seattle are doing great, but inside Seattle and the rest of America, they're really not." That's the local cost of living set by the tech sector.
If you don’t live in downtown nor cap hill, you can find acceptable rents in Seattle, or go further to south Seattle or north.
Seattle rents are very high in specific hip neighborhoods.