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Poll: Who got some help from parents for a downpayment. I think this is common, dh doens
28 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]We did (and I inherited $ from my grandmother that we also used). DH and I are both teachers -- we would have never been able to save without help.
[ Reply | Options ]So sad that teachers are paid obscenely low salaries ... while IB idiots who contribute nothing to society are paid obscenely high salaries.
[ Reply | Options ]What's also sad is that the middle class is being squeezed out of NYC--teachers, social workers, cops, etc. The people who keep society going.
[ Reply | Options ]The IB idiots pay the obscene taxes that keep everything else running--including public ed. Until now, at least. Which is why Bloomberg is making massive cuts. If there was no Wall Street and no finance there'd be no money anywhere to pay for any public services.
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If you look at their work divided out by the hours spent working, the teachers make a ton more. IBers work 80-100 hour weeks.
[ Reply | Options ]Well, I wouldn't go that far, by IBers don't get the summer and winter and spring breaks and every public holiday off. And IF (big if) they do get away, that Blackberry is a constant companion. Always work to do. Always (if they want to keep their job, anyway).
[ Reply | Options ]From a NYC public HS teacher at one of the more prestigious schools: I am so freaking sick of that view of teachers. While I get out of work at 3:30 (but I rarely get out of the building until later due to helping students after school) and I get to give my dcs dinner and help with homework, I am up for hours after my kids go to sleep making lesson plans, making tests, marking papers, communicating with parents, communicating with students that need homework help, and more. And my vacations are spent with more of the same. Do you get to make a few phone calls during the day? Check your email? Use the restroom when you need to? Not me. I get one 40 minute lunch and a 40 minute prep period during the day and that is it. Teachers work really HARD. It is not easy to teach and I'd like to see you try. You'd probably run out the door before the day was through. And how can the responder above you say that teachers make WAY more? A starting teacher in NYC makes around 40K a year and the max salary (only attained after 22 years of teaching and with the maximum education credit) is around 100K. I really don't think that's proportional to the salaries of NYC IBers.
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That's the result of a CHOICE you made to pursue a career which, while obviously worthwhile, fulfilling and worthy of much respect, is well known not to be lucrative. I'm so tired of listening to people complain about the results of their own decisions! The people who choose to go into finance (and I'm not one of them, by the way, though I do know many) recognized that the profession is extremely competitive, demanding, and often unpleasant (and generally only the reasonably good ones make the big bucks, despite what the press would currently have you believe ... though there are obviously a few exceptions).
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