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Significant-Bat9453 OP t1_it0dett wrote

Reply to comment by -Horatio_Alger_Jr- in Anyone have any updates on the Haverhill teacher strike? by Significant-Bat9453

But you DO know that Haverhill teachers are making $10,000 less than all of the other districts in the Merrimack Valley, right?

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-Horatio_Alger_Jr- t1_it1ugyb wrote

>But you DO know that Haverhill teachers are making $10,000 less than all of the other districts in the Merrimack Valley, right?

Not sure why that matters.

Haverhill Public Schools is a public school district located in HAVERHILL, MA. It has 7,771 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 13 to 1. According to state test scores, 37% of students are at least proficient in math and 39% in reading.

Maybe they need to do a better job teaching the children before they demand more money. The teachers in Haverhill are within the median income of the town they are employed by.

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realFancyStrawberry t1_it19qr4 wrote

Yes $10k. My roommate who is a teacher in Haverhill is making ~$50k which is $10k less than even state average.

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Educational-List8475 t1_it2t96g wrote

Is your teacher friend early career? That could also explain why they are “below” average. Although being below average doesn’t mean anything if you’re within say like one standard deviation of the average.

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realFancyStrawberry t1_it37v8v wrote

They have been a teacher for boston public schools for 4 years and a teacher at haverhill for about 2-3 years. She has stated to me that she is being payed 10k less than she should be but she is also in the process of completing her masters.

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Educational-List8475 t1_it3bywp wrote

So about 6-7 years total teaching. Yeah that’s pretty decent experience, maybe not quite mid career yet though. I don’t know much about how teachers earn raises. Are they on a step system like other government/municipal employees? I wonder if she’ll get bumped up after getting her masters. Could be she’s being paid less because she doesn’t have that yet? I think a masters is required in MA after so many years of teaching.

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realFancyStrawberry t1_it3qi34 wrote

Masters is required in Massachusetts. Once she gets the degree she is supposed to have a 20-30k pay increase. Managing the degree while also working with larger class sizes and and now sharing another room with another teacher has been putting a lot of stress on her. The school committee contract initially offered a raise in salary for 3% to cover inflation and then reduced the raise to 1.5%. The state of the economy is hitting the teachers hard.

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Educational-List8475 t1_it3qpkr wrote

Would that 20-30k put her in line with what the other teachers are making? And yeah even 3% isn’t like to help with how crazy things have been.

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