The 8th grade teacher explained that she'd been left with a $1,100 monthly salary, despite her rent being $1,800 alone.
"I'm not asking my district for more money," she said."My district is paying me a salary that is subsidized because I didn't start at the beginning of the year, but the way that they have the payroll set up is that whatever your annual salary is, they divide that to give you equal checks, two equal checks a month all the way until next August.
"Most districts I teach at give you the option to choose: nine months or 12. This district does not, you are only allowed to do the 12 month pay periods. Normally that wouldn't be a problem, if I was making a full annual salary, but because my salary is very much smaller than what it would normally be because I didn't start at this school at the beginning of the school year because i just moved, they are taking that smaller salary and still stretching it all the way to next august.
According to the teacher, she was not aware of this when she was initially hired and showed the camera various printed emails showing her asking for clarification on the payroll system. Low wages in teaching are far from a new problem, and neither is the premise of having a"side hustle" like Aponte.found that 16 percent of teachers have non-school jobs over the summer, with new teachers being even more likely to take one on. Around a third of teachers with one year or less experience had jobs over the summer, while 20 percent with two to four years of experience had summer jobs.
Around 20 percent of teachers also held second jobs during the school year too, accounting for 9 percent of their annual income. According to the
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