When it comes to teachers, America doesn’t mind getting away cheap.
The minimum salary for a teacher in Pennsylvania is $18,500 a year.
That’s not a lot of money – roughly $9.63 an hour.
It’s barely more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour ($15,080 annually).
But in many states there is no minimum teacher salary – so the minimum wage IS a teacher’s minimum salary!
You could probably make more as a dishwasher, cashier or parking lot attendant. So why take on a four-year education degree, mountains of student loan debt, and the added challenge of a (likely unpaid) internship?
Just pick up a broom and start sweeping.
Perhaps that’s why a group of Congressional Democrats have proposed a national minimum salary for teachers.
Rep. Frederica Wilson and Rep. Jamaal Bowman, (both former teachers) and six other members of the…
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