Their strategy here is: get young teachers who are still pretty energetic and have a strong sense of altruism, and then use them up for a few years. Rinse and repeat. I guess the blame is on the people of CO, who seem to be more concerned about getting high than actually paying their teachers a living wage.
Nathan McCleskey unfortunately, it’s not just being disrespected. My state is one of the lowest paying (or even is) in the country. Everything continues to increase in prices (thanks Texans, Floridans, and Californians), yet our wages stay the same. And sorry for posting on a 1 month old comment
It is sad! My parents told me To always be respectful of teachers, pay attention, get your homework done or no playtime. Teachers, nurses, cops - what happened to respecting these professions?
Big Red Bid Stupid. Teachers work from August to May, that’s 10 months. The point is $35K is a pathetic wage too have to deal with a kid who has a parent as Big and Stupid as you.
M M So your district is August to May? No Christmas Break? No Thanksgiving Break? Spring Break? Memorial day? Veterans day? Columbus Day ? Presidents’ day or like my District a week ??? Sorry but all those holidays are paid and they stay home with their kids while us normal people have to still work and then pay people to watch our kids in the summer and on holiday breaks
Teachers work year round. They have continuing education requirements, planning for the next year, summer school, and other things that have to be accomplished before fall. And, many teachers work second and third jobs, from waitressing to Walmart to make ends meet. How do we expect kids to get a quality education if we don't pay for teachers who aren't exhausted from a night shift at Dollar general! I don't understand the hatred for education in this country.
Caitlin Broza Sorry my mother and sister are Teachers and they don’t plan for more then a week for the next year as you teach the same thing every year unless teaching a new grade lol, nice try though. Also Teachers that do teach Summer school get paid extra for it so once again nice try, Continue education requirements ? lol stop making things up, you get a degree and you are good and only need to keep up with changes to curriculum which are usually very minor, but hey if you think a teacher needs a month to prepare for teacher her next years 2nd grade class after teaching it for 10 years then you really have no faith in their abilities 😂
Fun fact in 1986 I had a full scholarship to Trenton state and wanted to be a teacher found out that in 4 years when I started working I would be earning less per hr then I was as a part-time plumbers helper So I quit college and got my plumbing license in the same 4 years today my net is about 200k/yr I still enjoy teaching the new apprentices's and they actually appreciate what I am doing for them. No shock that can't find any good teachers
Not to mention all of the unnecessary red tape and useless classes they try and make them pass before teaching. There's a resource teacher who makes $85,000/annually at a middle school near me and all she does it walk around trying to get kids in trouble. The superintendent makes $175,000/annually for doing absolutely nothing.
CJ, Yes, this is why the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program should be appreciated. So many people want to have an attitude about the student loans being forgiven for public service workers. I hope they never have to seek public medical assistance, try to educate their kids in a rural area, or need crucial legal advice from public interest lawyers who will not take all your money.
Actually if you’re willing to teach in this kind of places they usually have a loan forgiveness program if you stay for 5 years via Teach for America. That’s why they have a high turn over, people bounce out as soon as they get their loan paid for, but then again who can blame them.
Love when you guys do stories like this. So meaningful to draw attention to real hardworking Americans that are making a real difference. It’s important we help out communities like this ❤️
@@coolbeans6148 Maybe if they got paid a decent wage they would care more. I remember one of my Jr. high teachers having to work at a grocery store during summer break. That was in the 80s. He was a great teacher too.
People aren’t going to realize the impact until it’s starts to negatively impact the work force and society at large. The kids pay the ultimate price unfortunately 😔
That principal seems like such a nice, competent and witty guy. Rural schools offer a sense of community that is hard to achieve elsewhere, but 35k$...yikes. Should be closer to 50k!
To work half the year? Plus amazing benefits..... look at the average in that town it’s 42,000. So let’s take money from someone working a full year with two weeks vacation, to give it to someone working 180 days so they can make more then the tax payer.
You make it sound as if teaching was a random job. It's one of the most important jobs in any town, together with doctors. So the average income is a meaningless reference. Great teachers can inspire and help a whole community get together, improve, and develop. That should be worth something.
abcdefghijklmno29753 it’s extremely important, can’t steal from the common people to give to a teacher (Democratic voter). Teaching is easy, given state lesson plans.
abcdefghijklmno29753 I teach college classes at night, I know many teachers. They all understand how easy their job is. Considering they came the real world (industry) then went to teach to slow down.
Start by getting rid of that incompetent Sec. Of Education Betsy Devos. Take a good look at the school districts administrators. Many of them are also incompetent and are NOT at all supportive and respectful to their teachers. Ask teachers what they need and want , then actually ,listen to them. Money is a part of the issue but not the only issue.
As 14 year teacher I will tell you the problem..... our society says we care about education but we don't. Teachers need high degrees, get minimum pay, little respect from students parent or administration and you expect to get good results under these conditions? Anyone else not going to talk about how what we teacher our kids is the same information we taught 100 years ago and yet the world is different from even 10 years ago. All these comments here are great but talk is cheap. If the shoe fits wear it.
This teacher shortage seems to be a Nationwide problem. Low pay, corrupt unions and out of control students who are immune from discipline. It's a virtual suicide mission to try to earn a living teaching at an inner city school. I would never want a loved one of mine to even think about going into this thankless and many times dangerous profession.
I agree with everything until you mentioned "inner city school". Since this video is about rural Colorado... clearly it's hard to be a teacher anywhere in America right now.
@@SL-lz9jr I should have made myself more clear....I was trying to say that if things are bad even in rural Colorado then it's definitely a suicide mission to take a teaching job in the inner-city what with all the violent attacks on teachers.
Where (furious) did your information about unions came from? I am a proud member of the National Education Association - Retired. Our leadership is our membership, and we do great things together. In no other career do moral and ethical issues show up on their negotiations. Fewer kids in classes, more / any supplies, building safety, these and more are all issues typically addressed in dealing with admin. My first job nearly 45 years ago in the thumb area of Michigan, newly hired married teachers (both working with one child qualified for food stamps! Retired school librarian
@@veralenora4033 There are an awful lot of You Tube videos on the topic of union corruption. Maybe your particular union was an exception. Calm down, be happy and enjoy life my dear.
We have this conversation every year, yet teachers around this country are still having to go on strike for a livable wage. Meanwhile, thanks to Trump they don't even get their tax write off for buying classroom supplies anymore. I come from a family of teachers and vowed never to become one. Kids are getting more and more disrespectful, too many gun shootings, teachers get no respect--if ya ask me, teachers should get the same respect as our first responders and military officers-and they have lots of student debt that comes with a low, low salary. Yet, our country wonders why our kids our kidding dumber.
@Tong Po And their contracts are for that same time. They don't get paid the other 2-3 months unless they ask that their 10 month salary be spread over 12 months instead. Otherwise, they have to find another job during those months.
@@MrTmenzo They did, but nothing came of it. Then there was an election item allocating more funds for education & it didn't pass. In my district we did pass an increase in teaching salaries. Teachers in Colorado are paid somewhere in the bottom 5 of salary levels nationwide. They can't afford housing in the towns & cities where they teach & many of them work at other jobs both during the school year & on breaks. Rural school teachers are even worse off compared to those in urban & suburban areas. No one who hasn't taught can validly appreciate the profession. For the first time ever, parents are discouraging their children from entering the teaching profession. Colorado has a very highly educated work force, but that won't continue if schools aren't appropriately funded & teachers can't earn a living wage.
My first teaching job in 1985 paid $14,500. I left after eight years - I had enough. There's been a significant decline in parenting since the 1960s, and I can only imagine what it would be like to spend an entire day in a classroom now.
As a retired teacher, the problems are as diverse as the individual schools and systems. I was fortunate to be in a good public school. The problem of salary is a real issue, but it is only one. When I was in school,if you got in trouble at school,you got it worse when your parents learned of the situation. The real problem is parental apathy and breakdown of parenting. Evening meals are nonexistent. The lack of discipline is widespread due to school systems practicing defective teaching. Teachers do what is required to prevent lawsuits. The students know that the school system will not properly discipline in fear of lawsuits. The problem will continue to worsen unless parents decide to be parents (not friends) to their children and demand discipline and the parents are held accountable for their children's actions.
@@TrevorHamberger prefers the military-industrial complex to children. There's some kind of threat somewhere that's bigger than you can imagine pressing down on us. BE SCARED!
Funny, this is true in all businesses. You get what you pay for. Look at Walmart. They want super employees at low low prices. Lines are still long...and service is just as bad.
Their prices are still the best around though. Significantly better than competitors on certain items. use self check out or order online and be done w it.
I didn't find what he said in this video to be inappropriate. They are there to make a big decision and he was just informing them that the dating pool in a rural area is small. That's something to be considered before they make the leap and move out there.
Oh, they legalized gambling in MD almost 10 years ago with the promise that the money would go to education. HA! Saw through that immediately though other people were duped. It is just a vice that brings nothing positive for students they promised to help
Teachers are one of the key pillars of any community. They deserve better salary. Half the people using RUclips own their skills to teachers, whatever part of the world your from.
35k to pay a teacher who has Student loans is crap. It doesn't matter how much "community you offer or small town feel you offer" them they will be waving the flag once things like marriage and kids enter the picture. When all the 20 something single women raised their hand at the end of the show and said they would work at a rural school for basically NOTHING, I couldn't help but feel sorry that they were being sold false promises. Once you are left to fend for yourself, the picture looks much different.
I love checking out stories out of Colo because I used to live there, so I vicariously live there through RUclips. Imagine my delight over a small town I am not only familiar with, but an ex-boyfriend lives there. Yeah, there is a lot of price gouging in Simla. And there is no way anyone making $35k can live there without a room mate
She sounded fairly superior and definitely condescending when she seemed shocked that they helped the waitress expedite her accreditation process and hired her. Like they had definitely reached the bottom of the barrel by doing so. It appears that reporters are in short supply as well...
@Carolyn Gardner Yes ma'am, my only concern was with the seemingly superior tone the reporter had. She probably meant nothing by it, but in her position perception is everything. I'm fairly familiar with benefits and shortcomings of rural life. We purposely relocated to a rural area to allow our children to reap the benefits of the aforementioned environment. I can unequivocally state that the benefits and lifestyle of small town life and and K-12 education on the same small campus are well worth giving up conveniences like having Dominoes delivered and the like....
States really need to start investing in there current and future teachers. State and Federal grants to build campus housing for teachers. Then incentives to help teachers buy their house that helps them stay in the community
Sonic Crash The ISD that I grew up in does “provide” housing, but at a cost to that employee, thus reducing the paycheck. This ISD is a rural district in Texas, pays well, but is still behind in pay scale compared to the larger districts. You are Very correct that districts need to provide better pay scales, more incentives, and Support their Teachers, not giving into the parents at every turn.
Teachers are expected to be well trained professionals with managerial skills, but are usually paid less than McDonalds assistant manager. I guess people value their hamburgers more than their kids and the nations future.
Believe it or not, there is no shortage of teachers on the Colorado Front Range (the I-25 corridor from Fort Collins to Pueblo). My son majored in Education at the University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley. When he graduated, the entire class had to settle for part time teaching positions, many as low as 20 hours a week. He was "lucky" and was offered a 32 hour position, which was upgraded to full time the following year. He teaches in a Denver suburb and is paid quite a bit more than the teachers in rural schools. This is because voters in the school district where he teaches have voted to pay additional property taxes to provide extra funding to the district. Still, it isn't a princely sum and he sometimes teaches summer school and coaches school sports to earn extra money. He earns less than half of what I do.
maybe its cause my home state Colorado has become ridiculously overpriced while paying most jobs the same as 10 years ago when it cost around 1/2 as much to live here
If we humans live for 500 years , teaching little kids for part of our lives would be so rewarding for our souls but unfortunately life is so short we must chose a path in life to make money leaving the rewarding thing for human growth in second place , rural teachers deserve top dollar for helping humanity.
@@newtec-kd6vy Good. You can say that all you want, but people making 35,000 a year aren't going to stay in the profession long. So amazing to have a teacher shortage. It's time to pay up or deal with no teachers.
@@kgalpenis The could just get a summer job and make more money. NO im not working all year to pay some teacher who has never left school more then me.
@@newtec-kd6vy I'm sorry you're not going to support paying teachers more. You will reap the benefits of that one day, if you haven't already. Good luck!
The United States has got to stop the dumbing down of America. Teachers should be paid well. I have people from the United States call me an educted liberal elitist and think they are insulting me
@Coelophysis Not directly, but a good deal of money goes to Washington that could remain in the states. Someone is paying those 14,000 federal employees and over 95,000 management and operating contractor and other contractor employees at the Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C. and 83 field locations. That someone is the U.S. taxpayers.
Paying more is part of the solution, as are smaller classes, better school funding, more appreciation for the job, etc. In Germany I earn about 60.000 dollars a year, taking about the taxes, minus taxes care I still have 46.000 dollars left. As an elemantary school teacher, I am at the low end of the teacher-income-spectrum. Middleschool or Highschool teachers earn more.
Teachers where I live make 100,000+ with experience. Straight out of school about 70 K depending on the district.Remember teachers only work 8 months. If they want to make more money most do private tutoring during their breaks.
How about tapping into kids' natural inclination: some combination of home schooling, distance learning, online learning, educational software? NO, wait. That's an affront to the pedagogical establishment (teachers' unions).
“It’s all about the kids” is getting very very old. Teacher shortages are all over the country and it’s going to get worse and worse. Keep treating teachers like dirt in the US and you won’t have any!!!
35,000 WOWZER, That NOTHING. MAn, those states need to really change things up. And I was thinking of moving to this great state of Colorado. NEVERMIND
@@JTDyer21 and you would still be charged for child abuse regardless. It's obvious you don't have any experience dealing with such students. Can tell you from experience such tactics don't work.
It's not just the budget. If you look at some of the other countries in the world, the students there do much better than us with 1/10 of the budget. This is because their parents value education. Here in the US, some parents look at school more like a daycare. The teachers get no respect and blamed for students' lack of progress when in reality, the family environment is the problem.
The problem is no one --- not even locals --- wants to live in rural America. Educated professionals dream of living in glamorous California, New York, Florida, Boston.
Maybe the school needs to address how the students can create wealth in the area. Obviously the town doesn't have an industry to help pay for things and when your local economy is built on service instead of production, you get poor towns. Maybe if the kids learned less about PC and more about economics they would have solutions instead of just woe is me.
I'll bet that if we offered the parsonage tax benefits we give to clergy to teachers in rural districts, that could be a huge selling point. We've got to think creatively, America. Teachers are worth it.
you would pay more taxes to give teachers a raise. That´s how the world works buddy. But you´re not volunteering for that, right? Just complaining like you care, just like everyone else. No one cares about other peoples hardships. especially when it would increase your taxes.
Oh the problemb only in the rural area? Come on US...you guys dont do anything to help teachers...The world's largest economy and cant pay teachers? Its a disgrace
When talking about the waitress studying to become a teacher, this interviewer totally snubbed her nose and was so condescending when she said ‘you hired a waitress????!!!?’. Same reaction when noting that one teacher lived in a Mobil home. tiny trailer homes on all the tlc shows are all the trend now for people wanting to save money.. but for this girl doing it she was mocking it. my first few years out of college as new nurse working in ny, I lived in a studio apartment that was probably half as small as that girls trailer... it’s not the end of the world.
She reacted that way because they hired someone who was unqualified for the position. That's how desperate the school is. There's nothing wrong with having a waitress dreaming about becoming a teacher but it is problematic if she is hired before even being certified to work in a subject which she knows nothing about. As for the trailer, for a professional, living in one is not the best example of success. The expectation is that a student graduating from college will be better off for it; living in a nice house and a comfortable lifestyle.
Bottom line, no matter what: If you don't have good/wise administrators backing you as a teacher you will feel abandoned, disrespected and unsupported! Why would anyone want to stay at a school that believes it is okay for the students to lay down the law?!
The teacher problem in America is a big one because 1) they don’t get paid enough , 2) they are not respected because people are not paying out of pocket so they see public school teachers as baby sitters .But they love there unions so let teachers suffer
The obvious here: you have got to get the $$ right and you have to....well you have to look at the motivations of people graduating college. This old "all about the children" thing is outdated and was never true. It is certainly about the kids....like I love the kids, but you HAVE to get real and make this an attractive job again.
Exactly. And to move to the middle of nowhere, they will demand more pay to relocate to somewhere they don't want to be. And a rural area doesn't have buckets of money to give teachers unwilling to move there to double their salary. Soooo, they are increasingly turning to Filipino teachers who are more willing to come to the US and work anywhere in the US.
Time for cash strapped school districts to move to online platforms. If you can’t and won’t pay a person a decent wage for a professional service, you have to start thinking in 2020 terms. Besides this model is grossly obsolete.
A teacher living in a camper. This is heartbreaking. She is a trooper.
As long as teachers keep getting treated like garbage, it’s going to be difficult to find good ones.
Their strategy here is: get young teachers who are still pretty energetic and have a strong sense of altruism, and then use them up for a few years. Rinse and repeat. I guess the blame is on the people of CO, who seem to be more concerned about getting high than actually paying their teachers a living wage.
Nathan McCleskey unfortunately, it’s not just being disrespected. My state is one of the lowest paying (or even is) in the country. Everything continues to increase in prices (thanks Texans, Floridans, and Californians), yet our wages stay the same. And sorry for posting on a 1 month old comment
It is sad! My parents told me
To always be respectful of teachers, pay attention, get your homework done or no playtime. Teachers, nurses, cops - what happened to respecting these professions?
RainyJane Newer generations who disregard/challenge authority with no correction and the erosion of traditional values (for good or bad).
Maybe pay the teachers more so they actually afford to eat. I don’t know....
Republicans are against that.
ScootMagoot46 Hilary lost fair and square get over it already Libtard
@@jonmacdonald5345 I'm guessing you're the product of one of these poorly funded rural schools?
Alex Chopra The 49ers suck a bag of donkey Dick's! and I went to private Schools in the suburbs!
Well shucks Jethro, did it prepare you for an exciting career in manual labor?
Pathetic the state cannot pay enough. $35K is less than someone who are uneducated can make. This has not changed in 40 years.
Teachers only work 8 months a year, think before you speak
Big Red Bid Stupid. Teachers work from August to May, that’s 10 months. The point is $35K is a pathetic wage too have to deal with a kid who has a parent as Big and Stupid as you.
M M So your district is August to May? No Christmas Break? No Thanksgiving Break? Spring Break? Memorial day? Veterans day? Columbus Day ? Presidents’ day or like my District a week ??? Sorry but all those holidays are paid and they stay home with their kids while us normal people have to still work and then pay people to watch our kids in the summer and on holiday breaks
Teachers work year round. They have continuing education requirements, planning for the next year, summer school, and other things that have to be accomplished before fall. And, many teachers work second and third jobs, from waitressing to Walmart to make ends meet. How do we expect kids to get a quality education if we don't pay for teachers who aren't exhausted from a night shift at Dollar general! I don't understand the hatred for education in this country.
Caitlin Broza Sorry my mother and sister are Teachers and they don’t plan for more then a week for the next year as you teach the same thing every year unless teaching a new grade lol, nice try though. Also Teachers that do teach Summer school get paid extra for it so once again nice try, Continue education requirements ? lol stop making things up, you get a degree and you are good and only need to keep up with changes to curriculum which are usually very minor, but hey if you think a teacher needs a month to prepare for teacher her next years 2nd grade class after teaching it for 10 years then you really have no faith in their abilities 😂
Fun fact in 1986 I had a full scholarship to Trenton state and wanted to be a teacher found out that in 4 years when I started working I would be earning less per hr then I was as a part-time plumbers helper So I quit college and got my plumbing license in the same 4 years today my net is about 200k/yr I still enjoy teaching the new apprentices's and they actually appreciate what I am doing for them. No shock that can't find any good teachers
Pay the teachers more than the pencil pushing administrators.
Thats true in the US they are one of the lowest pay out off the OECD.
Yeah, the administration at this school is a joke.
College is getting more expensive for people who want to become teachers too
Not to mention all of the unnecessary red tape and useless classes they try and make them pass before teaching. There's a resource teacher who makes $85,000/annually at a middle school near me and all she does it walk around trying to get kids in trouble. The superintendent makes $175,000/annually for doing absolutely nothing.
CJ, Yes, this is why the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program should be appreciated. So many people want to have an attitude about the student loans being forgiven for public service workers. I hope they never have to seek public medical assistance, try to educate their kids in a rural area, or need crucial legal advice from public interest lawyers who will not take all your money.
Never ending cycle
Actually if you’re willing to teach in this kind of places they usually have a loan forgiveness program if you stay for 5 years via Teach for America.
That’s why they have a high turn over, people bounce out as soon as they get their loan paid for, but then again who can blame them.
Love when you guys do stories like this. So meaningful to draw attention to real hardworking Americans that are making a real difference. It’s important we help out communities like this ❤️
They're considering it because they're still college students, once they graduate and have several offers on the table.......nope
It's crazy that teaching isn't respected. They are teaching the next generation of adults.
Republicans call education “socialism”.
Yea, and do a terrible job at it.
@@coolbeans6148 As a whole, yes. But there are good teachers in there too.
@@bekahnavarro agreed.
@@coolbeans6148 Maybe if they got paid a decent wage they would care more. I remember one of my Jr. high teachers having to work at a grocery store during summer break. That was in the 80s. He was a great teacher too.
People aren’t going to realize the impact until it’s starts to negatively impact the work force and society at large. The kids pay the ultimate price unfortunately 😔
These garbage kids don’t take education seriously anyways maybe one or two but have you even been in a class room lately. It’s a damn jungle
That principal seems like such a nice, competent and witty guy. Rural schools offer a sense of community that is hard to achieve elsewhere, but 35k$...yikes. Should be closer to 50k!
To work half the year? Plus amazing benefits..... look at the average in that town it’s 42,000. So let’s take money from someone working a full year with two weeks vacation, to give it to someone working 180 days so they can make more then the tax payer.
You make it sound as if teaching was a random job. It's one of the most important jobs in any town, together with doctors. So the average income is a meaningless reference. Great teachers can inspire and help a whole community get together, improve, and develop. That should be worth something.
abcdefghijklmno29753 it’s extremely important, can’t steal from the common people to give to a teacher (Democratic voter). Teaching is easy, given state lesson plans.
I'm not quite sure I even understand what you are saying? But I'm guessing you're not a teacher or particularly close to a school environment?
abcdefghijklmno29753 I teach college classes at night, I know many teachers. They all understand how easy their job is. Considering they came the real world (industry) then went to teach to slow down.
Pay them more money
cuellar4500 get out of here with all of your sense making! Lol.
Ummm where does the money come from?
John Smith the government
Republicans would call that Socialism.
Our taxes.
Ask that Superintendent what his salary is?
Start by getting rid of that incompetent Sec. Of Education Betsy Devos. Take a good look at the school districts administrators. Many of them are also incompetent and are NOT at all supportive and respectful to their teachers. Ask teachers what they need and want , then actually ,listen to them. Money is a part of the issue but not the only issue.
Exactly
As 14 year teacher I will tell you the problem..... our society says we care about education but we don't. Teachers need high degrees, get minimum pay, little respect from students parent or administration and you expect to get good results under these conditions?
Anyone else not going to talk about how what we teacher our kids is the same information we taught 100 years ago and yet the world is different from even 10 years ago.
All these comments here are great but talk is cheap. If the shoe fits wear it.
“Your dating pool is limited” sounds great
This teacher shortage seems to be a Nationwide problem. Low pay, corrupt unions and out of control students who are immune from discipline. It's a virtual suicide mission to try to earn a living teaching at an inner city school. I would never want a loved one of mine to even think about going into this thankless and many times dangerous profession.
I agree with everything until you mentioned "inner city school". Since this video is about rural Colorado... clearly it's hard to be a teacher anywhere in America right now.
@@SL-lz9jr I should have made myself more clear....I was trying to say that if things are bad even in rural Colorado then it's definitely a suicide mission to take a teaching job in the inner-city what with all the violent attacks on teachers.
Where (furious) did your information about unions came from? I am a proud member of the National Education Association - Retired. Our leadership is our membership, and we do great things together. In no other career do moral and ethical issues show up on their negotiations. Fewer kids in classes, more / any supplies, building safety, these and more are all issues typically addressed in dealing with admin. My first job nearly 45 years ago in the thumb area of Michigan, newly hired married teachers (both working with one child qualified for food stamps!
Retired school librarian
@@veralenora4033 There are an awful lot of You Tube videos on the topic of union corruption. Maybe your particular union was an exception.
Calm down, be happy and enjoy life my dear.
@@JackTheSkunk Thank you.
We have this conversation every year, yet teachers around this country are still having to go on strike for a livable wage. Meanwhile, thanks to Trump they don't even get their tax write off for buying classroom supplies anymore. I come from a family of teachers and vowed never to become one. Kids are getting more and more disrespectful, too many gun shootings, teachers get no respect--if ya ask me, teachers should get the same respect as our first responders and military officers-and they have lots of student debt that comes with a low, low salary. Yet, our country wonders why our kids our kidding dumber.
Pay more and parents need to discipline their children.
35k a year??? Wow!
@Tong Po that comes to about 33-40 a year, not that great for someone with ba. Fast food managers start out at about 50.
Lol, I work in a call center and get almost 40k a year
They should protest like teachers from other states have been doing recently.
@Tong Po And their contracts are for that same time. They don't get paid the other 2-3 months unless they ask that their 10 month salary be spread over 12 months instead. Otherwise, they have to find another job during those months.
@@MrTmenzo
They did, but nothing came of it. Then there was an election item allocating more funds for education & it didn't pass. In my district we did pass an increase in teaching salaries. Teachers in Colorado are paid somewhere in the bottom 5 of salary levels nationwide. They can't afford housing in the towns & cities where they teach & many of them work at other jobs both during the school year & on breaks. Rural school teachers are even worse off compared to those in urban & suburban areas. No one who hasn't taught can validly appreciate the profession. For the first time ever, parents are discouraging their children from entering the teaching profession. Colorado has a very highly educated work force, but that won't continue if schools aren't appropriately funded & teachers can't earn a living wage.
Since I left college in 1987, at 35K annually this would mean a $515 raise per year over 32 years. Pathetic - glad I sale widgets at $100K annually.
My first teaching job in 1985 paid $14,500.
I left after eight years - I had enough. There's been a significant decline in parenting since the 1960s, and I can only imagine what it would be like to spend an entire day in a classroom now.
As a retired teacher, the problems are as diverse as the individual schools and systems. I was fortunate to be in a good public school. The problem of salary is a real issue, but it is only one.
When I was in school,if you got in trouble at school,you got it worse when your parents learned of the situation. The real problem is parental apathy and breakdown of parenting. Evening meals are nonexistent.
The lack of discipline is widespread due to school systems practicing defective teaching. Teachers do what is required to prevent lawsuits. The students know that the school system will not properly discipline in fear of lawsuits.
The problem will continue to worsen unless parents decide to be parents (not friends) to their children and demand discipline and the parents are held accountable for their children's actions.
Yet the defense programs in the US have endless money to throw around. Just check the federal waste for the numbers.
When we stop funding that you'll eat the barrel of a rifle
Fulcanelli prove it.
@@cm581 type "william cooper new world order documented" in your search bar. Then do "william cooper treason"
@@cm581 I proved it. Where'd you go?
@@TrevorHamberger prefers the military-industrial complex to children. There's some kind of threat somewhere that's bigger than you can imagine pressing down on us. BE SCARED!
Funny, this is true in all businesses. You get what you pay for. Look at Walmart. They want super employees at low low prices. Lines are still long...and service is just as bad.
They pay their employees their worth based on supply and demand , plus they are pretty stupid if they have to work at Walmart
Their prices are still the best around though. Significantly better than competitors on certain items.
use self check out or order online and be done w it.
God damn!! Homeless people get treated better than teachers in Colorado!!
Republicans call all the plans to pay teachers more “socialism”.
@@blackout07blue The rightie answer to this problem is to privatize schools. Imagine the help for these rural kids if we gave them vouchers.
How to be innappropriate: be over 50 and discuss the dating pool with female undergrads.
I didn't find what he said in this video to be inappropriate. They are there to make a big decision and he was just informing them that the dating pool in a rural area is small. That's something to be considered before they make the leap and move out there.
0:40 what were those to cars up to
Hmmm... thought that Colorado legalized pot and was gonna use that tax money to pay for education? Didn't take long to break that promise!
Oh, they legalized gambling in MD almost 10 years ago with the promise that the money would go to education. HA! Saw through that immediately though other people were duped. It is just a vice that brings nothing positive for students they promised to help
was just about to say that lol
Teachers are one of the key pillars of any community. They deserve better salary. Half the people using RUclips own their skills to teachers, whatever part of the world your from.
35k to pay a teacher who has Student loans is crap.
It doesn't matter how much "community you offer or small town feel you offer" them they will be waving the flag once things like marriage and kids enter the picture.
When all the 20 something single women raised their hand at the end of the show and said they would work at a rural school for basically NOTHING, I couldn't help but feel sorry that they were being sold false promises.
Once you are left to fend for yourself, the picture looks much different.
Pay them plenty and take away unnecessary requirements. Problem solved.
Exactly
Myself and other teachers are leaving the teaching profession due to low pay. We’re educated with Masters degrees and just barley afford our rent.
YaboiDrizzyDrew that’s one reason why I left teaching.
I love checking out stories out of Colo because I used to live there, so I vicariously live there through RUclips. Imagine my delight over a small town I am not only familiar with, but an ex-boyfriend lives there. Yeah, there is a lot of price gouging in Simla. And there is no way anyone making $35k can live there without a room mate
Hi,how are you?Good morning .Where did you live in Colorado.I’m lived Boulder Colo.
A teacher salary works as a second income but not as the major supporter of a family.
She sounded fairly superior and definitely condescending when she seemed shocked that they helped the waitress expedite her accreditation process and hired her. Like they had definitely reached the bottom of the barrel by doing so. It appears that reporters are in short supply as well...
@Carolyn Gardner
Yes ma'am, my only concern was with the seemingly superior tone the reporter had. She probably meant nothing by it, but in her position perception is everything.
I'm fairly familiar with benefits and shortcomings of rural life. We purposely relocated to a rural area to allow our children to reap the benefits of the aforementioned environment. I can unequivocally state that the benefits and lifestyle of small town life and and K-12 education on the same small campus are well worth giving up conveniences like having Dominoes delivered and the like....
Stop taxing all teachers salaries... this is a start in the right direction.
Step two, loan forgiveness.
Yeah I wouldn't work for less then it costs to live either Especially if I have a four-year college degree and loans to pay
States really need to start investing in there current and future teachers. State and Federal grants to build campus housing for teachers. Then incentives to help teachers buy their house that helps them stay in the community
Republicans would call you socialist for that.
@@blackout07blue But bailing out the Car industry and Banks is not Socialism. I Never got that.
Sonic Crash The ISD that I grew up in does “provide” housing, but at a cost to that employee, thus reducing the paycheck. This ISD is a rural district in Texas, pays well, but is still behind in pay scale compared to the larger districts.
You are Very correct that districts need to provide better pay scales, more incentives, and Support their Teachers, not giving into the parents at every turn.
My daughter was kicked and bruised two days in a row by a Kindergarten student. Nothing can be done to remove this child from the classroom.
Time to start taxing religious groups and giving tax free status to teachers instead.
I'm all for tax free income for k-12 teachers
Yes on both suggestions.
Teachers are expected to be well trained professionals with managerial skills, but are usually paid less than McDonalds assistant manager. I guess people value their hamburgers more than their kids and the nations future.
Yeah food is more important than glorified baby sitters. Education is easier than ever now with iphones.
This is off topic but...the interviewer is gorgeous.😍
She look like a discount Indian girl lol
I work at a airport and everyone thinks I made a load of money but I only bring home 34k a year...
Believe it or not, there is no shortage of teachers on the Colorado Front Range (the I-25 corridor from Fort Collins to Pueblo). My son majored in Education at the University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley. When he graduated, the entire class had to settle for part time teaching positions, many as low as 20 hours a week. He was "lucky" and was offered a 32 hour position, which was upgraded to full time the following year. He teaches in a Denver suburb and is paid quite a bit more than the teachers in rural schools. This is because voters in the school district where he teaches have voted to pay additional property taxes to provide extra funding to the district. Still, it isn't a princely sum and he sometimes teaches summer school and coaches school sports to earn extra money. He earns less than half of what I do.
maybe its cause my home state Colorado has become ridiculously overpriced while paying most jobs the same as 10 years ago when it cost around 1/2 as much to live here
If we humans live for 500 years , teaching little kids for part of our lives would be so rewarding for our souls but unfortunately life is so short we must chose a path in life to make money leaving the rewarding thing for human growth in second place , rural teachers deserve top dollar for helping humanity.
I started in 2013 in Florida at 37,000
What I like is that the kids are well behaved:)
I would love to a teacher out there and I would not mind living in trailer
Mary Bauer used to be my teacher at another school!
What school was that ?
Pay more so they can afford to live and maybe they will all apply
35,000 starting out to only work 180 days a years is AMAZING!!!!
@@newtec-kd6vy Good. You can say that all you want, but people making 35,000 a year aren't going to stay in the profession long. So amazing to have a teacher shortage. It's time to pay up or deal with no teachers.
@@kgalpenis The could just get a summer job and make more money. NO im not working all year to pay some teacher who has never left school more then me.
@@newtec-kd6vy I'm sorry you're not going to support paying teachers more. You will reap the benefits of that one day, if you haven't already. Good luck!
The United States has got to stop the dumbing down of America. Teachers should be paid well. I have people from the United States call me an educted liberal elitist and think they are insulting me
Start education reform by getting rid of the Department of Education. Use that wasted money to pay teachers more.
@Coelophysis Not directly, but a good deal of money goes to Washington that could remain in the states. Someone is paying those 14,000 federal employees and over 95,000 management and operating contractor and other contractor employees at the Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C. and 83 field locations. That someone is the U.S. taxpayers.
Paying more is part of the solution, as are smaller classes, better school funding, more appreciation for the job, etc.
In Germany I earn about 60.000 dollars a year, taking about the taxes, minus taxes care I still have 46.000 dollars left. As an elemantary school teacher, I am at the low end of the teacher-income-spectrum. Middleschool or Highschool teachers earn more.
Great video!
How about offering more money
I’d love to have that trailer
Better start paying people.If you don’t have the money people taking there talents elsewhere .
Grew up in a town like this, too bad I'm not younger would jump on an opportunity like this.
Teachers where I live make 100,000+ with experience. Straight out of school about 70 K depending on the district.Remember teachers only work 8 months. If they want to make more money most do private tutoring during their breaks.
can an international applicants apply for a teaching jobs in colorado?
How about tapping into kids' natural inclination: some combination of home schooling, distance learning, online learning, educational software? NO, wait. That's an affront to the pedagogical establishment (teachers' unions).
Everyone says pay them more , fine , buts it’s coming out of our paycheck unless they take it from somewhere else . Easier said than done .
Not just teachers, any career now, some don’t pay enough and everything cost higher
“It’s all about the kids” is getting very very old. Teacher shortages are all over the country and it’s going to get worse and worse. Keep treating teachers like dirt in the US and you won’t have any!!!
Watching this video made me realize that even in a developped teachers are underpaid and don't get offered at least the minimum to a decent life.
35,000 WOWZER, That NOTHING. MAn, those states need to really change things up. And I was thinking of moving to this great state of Colorado. NEVERMIND
$35,000? Then they wonder why there are no applicants?
MONEY!
Oh I would love to teach. Sign me up. Just let those kids get crazy and try to disrespect me. They would find a new definition of pain in their life.
Go out and get licensed.
You would get arrested for child abuse.
@@chrysiarose, excuse me but whipping a child with a wooden paddle for rebellious behavior is not child abuse.
@@JTDyer21 and you would still be charged for child abuse regardless. It's obvious you don't have any experience dealing with such students. Can tell you from experience such tactics don't work.
Man if i can fight my student loans 😡
$35,000? You make that much working full-time at McDonalds, and don't even need student loans.
It's not just the budget. If you look at some of the other countries in the world, the students there do much better than us with 1/10 of the budget. This is because their parents value education. Here in the US, some parents look at school more like a daycare. The teachers get no respect and blamed for students' lack of progress when in reality, the family environment is the problem.
The problem is no one --- not even locals --- wants to live in rural America. Educated professionals dream of living in glamorous California, New York, Florida, Boston.
Maybe the school needs to address how the students can create wealth in the area. Obviously the town doesn't have an industry to help pay for things and when your local economy is built on service instead of production, you get poor towns. Maybe if the kids learned less about PC and more about economics they would have solutions instead of just woe is me.
I made $29,500 as a 7th and 8th grade math teacher for my first 4 years of teaching in a inner city public school WITHOUT A RAISE...
I'll bet that if we offered the parsonage tax benefits we give to clergy to teachers in rural districts, that could be a huge selling point. We've got to think creatively, America. Teachers are worth it.
Time for a complete overhaul of the educational system ! Get with the program .
you would pay more taxes to give teachers a raise. That´s how the world works buddy. But you´re not volunteering for that, right? Just complaining like you care, just like everyone else. No one cares about other peoples hardships. especially when it would increase your taxes.
God bless Teachers
Oh the problemb only in the rural area? Come on US...you guys dont do anything to help teachers...The world's largest economy and cant pay teachers? Its a disgrace
Inner cities have the same problem
When talking about the waitress studying to become a teacher, this interviewer totally snubbed her nose and was so condescending when she said ‘you hired a waitress????!!!?’.
Same reaction when noting that one teacher lived in a Mobil home. tiny trailer homes on all the tlc shows are all the trend now for people wanting to save money.. but for this girl doing it she was mocking it. my first few years out of college as new nurse working in ny, I lived in a studio apartment that was probably half as small as that girls trailer... it’s not the end of the world.
She reacted that way because they hired someone who was unqualified for the position. That's how desperate the school is. There's nothing wrong with having a waitress dreaming about becoming a teacher but it is problematic if she is hired before even being certified to work in a subject which she knows nothing about. As for the trailer, for a professional, living in one is not the best example of success. The expectation is that a student graduating from college will be better off for it; living in a nice house and a comfortable lifestyle.
@@wheeface i know that Maryland has a program where soon to be teachers have a year to finish their program but can be hired.
There were 550 kids in my graduating class.
Damn hard to realize that blonde 26 year old is my age and making 35000 a year
Bottom line, no matter what: If you don't have good/wise administrators backing you as a teacher you will feel abandoned, disrespected and unsupported! Why would anyone want to stay at a school that believes it is okay for the students to lay down the law?!
Just saying...
With all the tax money collected from marijuana sales (and it's a lot), why isn't the state paying their teachers more?
More home schools and online school programs with decentralised learning happening now, teachers find other means to teach using technology.
$35k well yeah thats not going to help things
How do you expect people to live out there when they barely afford to? Build them a house? Give them free food. Something, like my goodness.
The teacher problem in America is a big one because 1) they don’t get paid enough ,
2) they are not respected because people are not paying out of pocket so they see public school teachers as baby sitters .But they love there unions so let teachers suffer
I am up for it to come teach math if you’d like to hire.
35k is way too low
The American dream is dead.
Fools...you gotta pay up
The obvious here: you have got to get the $$ right and you have to....well you have to look at the motivations of people graduating college. This old "all about the children" thing is outdated and was never true. It is certainly about the kids....like I love the kids, but you HAVE to get real and make this an attractive job again.
but thennnnn, we have a space military program now...
Yayyy
Don’t you think that the tax money CO is getting from weed should help put a dent into raising salaries?
It's hard to find teachers simply because nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere.
Exactly. And to move to the middle of nowhere, they will demand more pay to relocate to somewhere they don't want to be. And a rural area doesn't have buckets of money to give teachers unwilling to move there to double their salary.
Soooo, they are increasingly turning to Filipino teachers who are more willing to come to the US and work anywhere in the US.
That was a really nice camper!
The reporter seemed very judgemental.
Time for cash strapped school districts to move to online platforms. If you can’t and won’t pay a person a decent wage for a professional service, you have to start thinking in 2020 terms. Besides this model is grossly obsolete.
Aspiring teachers that don't have enough sense to wear a seat belt.
WHO exactly dictates how much a teacher gets paid?
Student loans aren't worth it.
@@coolbeans6148 is an expert on that because he isn't educated. He don't need none o' that there book larnin'!