What if your employer asks you to stay late and you say you can't. Can the employer say, "I'm paying for your FREE housing!" Are you required to work over the summer? Most teachers take the summer off. This seems like a good idea, but what happens if the teacher becomes seriously ill and has to go on FMLA? There are so many scenarios where I can see this going wrong.
@@johngo9541 oh stop it! This country sends billions of dollars to Israel and Ukraine to make a few, so investing in the kids would be a better investment than throwing money away on those countries. Those countries need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
My first full-time teaching position was in rural Idaho where the school district provided a teacherage (a home they owned) to live in. That year I was paid 20K and rent was $150 a month, taken out pre-taxes. the house wasn't' much but I walked to work. I've always thought all school districts should have these for staff.
I agree. Having a decent home provided to workers that are just starting out, can be quite beneficial. Especially if it’s a short walk to work. Living wages should always be provided but decent affordable housing is helpful too.
Speaking as a fmr teacher (albeit, college) this seems great until you're laid off and now you're homeless too. Also my coworkers who accepted housing had to follow strict rules about decor, parking, outdoor furniture and even an unspoken code of honor/ethics thing where they'd be pulled aside and spoken to if word got out that they had a party that got loud or went late. I never accepted the housing and instead demanded the monetary equivalent be added to my paycheck (you'd get more pay but would have to find your own housing and the equivalent was peanuts so dont expect it to cover private housing.) I watched so many coworker friends feel fed up and controlled under the housing option. i may have paid more to have my own off campus place but I credit my sanity to making that choice. Definitely something to think about before agreeing to it.
This is a very creative solution. Educators get housing, the college students get experience. This could be expanded & offer experience to trade schools as well. I'm for it as long as the educators are qualified & the students are thriving.
As a working mom of two children under age 5 I have such respect and gratitude for early childhood employees. Give them allllll the things they deserve.
I actually preferred the system whereby you would be the person in charge of the early childhood development of your own preschool children, but that's gone out the window for maybe half the nation.
@mandycole3757 no it is not an excuse. Giving them free housing means that they can use their wages for other things and not have to worry about not being able to pay their bills. Rent would be the main expense anyways.
@@mandycole3757I don't believe that. Some jobs do not "deserve a living wage", because they are commonly understood as being secondary sources of household income, plus there is not a scarce supply of qualified (or qualifiable) labor. My dishwasher job as a teen was not expected to provide me with a living wage. Nor are any minimum-wage jobs out there today. It's a mistake to advocate that adult breadwinners should take these jobs and then expect to earn "a living wage". And what is a "living wage" anyway? The ability to afford high rents in the location of choice? The alternative is to live elsewhere where rent is lower. Now, specifically for the job of "teacher" (as opposed to professors at colleges and universities), it's not a minimum-wage job, but the same concept applies. If the pay is what it is (and takes into account a slightly shorter work year and often the promise of a pension), then single breadwinners should ask themselves if they really want the job, and whether they will be able to afford living in the location of their choice. Instead of demanding a taxpayer boost to their earnings to make this happen, they should find another more lucrative position in another field, or plan to teach in a cheaper location. Otherwise they should leave the teaching jobs to those for whom it's a secondary household income. Another point: If you raise the salaries for teachers, to make those salaries equivalent to those of many dreary office jobs, then those office workers might just end up flooding the teacher market, taking those jobs from those who otherwise would become teachers. So these are just some thoughts for your consideration. I personally have no use for the "they are educating our children so deserve to be paid well" argument. Teachers are a mixed bag: some are good, some are bad, some are unfit for other jobs, some are indoctrinators, some do it primarily to avoid other types of work and for the time off in summer. But most, I assume, enjoy teaching at the grade school level, are dedicated to their classes, but don't enjoy the administrative mandates.
@@mandycole3757 Notice that the early educator's hourly was $14.22, that is only .77 lower than what is considered a "living wage." The costs associated with increasing the income of that teacher is such that it's cheaper to give them a home.
I'm glad they have temporary relief, but your employer providing housing won't end any better than your employer providing healthcare. Now you'll ignore the bad pay, because it lets you keep your home, but you still can't afford to leave. If things get really bad and you quit, or you get fired, or you get too sick to work, you also get kicked out of your home! You still have no savings, because your boss had no reason to ever pay you a living wage!
Agreed. There should be some protections guaranteeing you can continue to rent the place at a reasonable rate for a certain amount of time after leaving the job.
If rent is provided why the he'll would anyone want to leave save up. People work 3 jobs just to pay the rent it's the reason we work to put a roof over the head. If it's provided than that knocks off about 1/3 or even 2/3 of your monthly expenses. I would save till a find something more suitable. People always got something to complain about a don't look at the bigger picture.
When I took a teaching job in China from 2009-2013, the monthly's pay was categorized in parts of the % as housing, so we only pay tax for the non housing amount. The employer was a Singaporean private company. This can be adopted here too
NO. This is a stupid idea. Your housing should not be tied to your job. That will make it alot harder to leave a bad job or avoid getting fired. This is what they did for me when I was teaching in korea. Not worth it
I can appreciate this creative solution to a growing problem and it's application. However, why are these people that are entrusted to care for other people's kids only making 14.55 an hour/29,000 a year? That's subpar pay. Chances are these people have to go to work sick, use food banks, emergencies cannot happen. It seems as though it's the same application of tying healthcare to your job. It was started very long ago but insurance companies came in and saw the profit so now we're in a healthcare crisis based on what someone else thinks you need. BTW, it's none of our business why the father is or isn't involved. It could very easily be a DV, rape/SA, death situation.
There has to be something better than paying the teachers low wages and requiring them to pay into the state retirement. They literally take out $800 of your check.
It is really bad when politicians can give themselves a raise judges can get a raise, but yet teachers can’t get a raise and they’re teaching the future of this country. That’s a damn shame.
This is serfdom. Pay people a living salary, or do without the service. People are very selfish. They expect people to care for their children, but they don't want to pay for it.
C'mon America, these people are educating your children. How are they not earning good wages? How are we comfortable with them not being able to keep a roof over their heads? Some of you will nickel and dime the teacher who is teaching your child to read but think the finance bro on the other side of town deserves his outrageous salary and bonus.
The short answer is that it was never set up as a single breadwinner job. Teacher pay alone is not enough for a roof. (The same goes for most restaurant and hospitality jobs, yet adult immigrants entering those positions has led to America treating those jobs as single-breadwinner jobs now as well, which is a mistake.) The expectation was that a teacher always relied on someone else in the household to have the primary salary. This method still works well, but is not as common as before, because many women get married later or remain single. If they are teachers, they are left trying to make ends meet in a career that was never designed for that. But even so, why is teacher pay "so low"? (even after adjusting for reduced work in summer, and (if applicable) pensions) It's because the skills are not deemed scarce enough (unlike at the university level). "Anyone" can become a teacher. That means that existing teachers can be replaced by others, many of whom would work at the existing pay rate (because those replacements would be either young singles or else those who will rely on someone else's primary income).
@richatlarge462 …except it was originally a job mostly done by men and who were the breadwinners and it was reasonably paid then. Not well paid, but not poverty wages. So what changed? …women started doing it. As for the skillset not being deemed scarce enough. Have you missed all the headlines about America’s teacher shortage? 🥴
@@naomi5495 I don't know when mostly men were teachers, but mostly women have been teachers ever since World War II and probably before that. But yes, one unintended consequence of women going into professions is that there are more people chasing limited jobs, so the pay goes down, as covered in Economics 1. Or else, which might be more applicable here, when women became teachers, they tended to live in households in which their husbands were the primary breadwinners, and hence were willing to work as teachers at the pay rate offered. What I mean by the skillset not being scarce is that almost anybody who wants to be can become a teacher. The reason there is a shortage is not based on skills, it's based on the deterioration of the teaching experience due to how schools are being run, and frankly due to the quality of families with kids in public schools in most cities.
schools are businesses first, they are incorporated. Their job first is to make money for shareholders and lastly, give product. This isnt a joke. Education is just something they produce. This is basically shrinkflation but for education. Alot good their unions have done for them, their admins get paid 6figs while they fight for min wage
Who is paying the property or school taxes? And I guess if there’s a conflict with the employee and they are let go….they lose the housing? Do they owe any money back? Like my job has tuition reimbursement, but if you leave in a certain time frame….you have to pay it back.
@2:10 They are probably not doing this out of altruism, but rather out of necessity in order to retain staff. Connecticut doesn't have a lot of affordable housing, and the ppl who live there want teachers to teach but not to live in their community in planned housing. A lot of those areas are very suburban and residential, and they want it to stay that way.
This housing solution for teachers may seem like a generous idea, but I see it as an insult to teachers. People that go to college and earn teaching degrees should get a decent salary so they can purchase a house or afford rent. It's absurd that teachers should have to depend on handouts. Increase teacher pay by paying teachers to stay one to three hours after the students leave school for the day to plan lessons, prepare learning materials, grade assignments, communicate with parents and colleagues, tutor students, etc. This is what teachers do anyway, but without pay which is unacceptable.
Why are teachers paid so low? Imagine going to school paying over $200k for school (undergrad and masters) just to get paid less than your student who works at Taco Bell after school. 🤷🏽♀️ Could have just saved the $200k and went straight to Taco Bell after graduating high school. At least after 4yrs you’ll be a shift manager making more that minimum wage
Friends Center for Children is remarkable in many ways. It's a co-op, which means every family contributes something and that lowers cost per child. It grew out of Friends asking the Meeting's neighbors what they needed and how the Meeting could help.
Hopefully they put some of the money they don't need to spend on rent into retirement savings, then collect retirement pay and social security after retiring. If they do it right they will hopefully be able to afford to buy eventually or at least make ends meet in retirement. It's a matter of planning and financial discipline.
Another idea would be to allow teachers not to have to pay income tax and give them really low interest rate loans on properties (with no property taxes attached). Those are two simple ideas that could be implemented immediately.
Our society is set up to respect the rich and criticize the poor -- even those poor working full time jobs. I hope more states can make housing available for teachers.
What about other dchool staff as well? These programs exclude a lot of people when other school staff arent making millions either. I just had a coworker at a school get evicted and she lost her job too because she was calling off of work to secure housing.
Are these good, safe houses or slums? Is this trapping teachers into a cycle of poverty? This seems good on the surface, but I worry that this is gilded chains.
We have this in my country, The teachers that work at the school had shared housing, it was like an apartment style. The location of the housing was also across from the school therefore you were able to save a lot. To be honest, it actually worked really well.
This is a great idea. We need more people to take jobs like this, but if they can't afford to, they will do something else, or they will be stressed everyday and not give kids the kind of attention they deserve. This should definitely stop the turnover of employees. They should try something like this with caretakers for seniors too. We need caretakers, but many aren't paid enough. People who aren't paid enough usually don't do as good of a job.
I hope I get a job with my degree soon. I work in child care in NYS. I make 15$ an hour. If I didn’t live with my boyfriend who pays most the rent I would make -1000 a month and need S8 . I already get Food Stamps. I wouldn’t be able to afford housing.
This exists at schools with GDP level money. Bringing the college students in - who will incur wilder childcare costs in 5-10 years - is the kind of reality check needed for structural change.
Did I miss how this is being financed? This seems to be the key component of making it feasible. I'm assuming the owner of the day care had a large savings and investments to pull from. I doubt most day care owners could afford such an option.
Sadly many so called parents don't want to raise their children. Many send them to school to be baby sat. A former teacher told me in 2001 not to think about it let alone do it. Teachers deserve excellent pay for the impossible job they have. Children are the future not us old people.
My childhood friend’s mother worked at a preschool and had a a living space that was connected to it. There should be care for teachers just as they care for future generations.
👏👏👏 Policies need to change but given the resources now, this was smart. I workes for a school in Colombia that provided housing. Unfortunately my boss was pretty toxic, so i was still stressed havinbmy job tied to my house. However, it was MUCH better than not knowing if i could make rent each month or not being able to afford it at all
I am confused. I understand that Connecticut is offering FREE housing to early childhood teachers. What this story failed to explain is HOW. Who bought the land to plop this house down on? Who is paying for the house if it's rent-free for the teachers? I know the Yale architecture students drew the plans and help build the homes, but I am not understanding the financing part. Somebody has to be paying for the housing. Free is never free.
Great idea. If schools can't pay that much, at least give some form of incentive in order to retain teachers. Having a decent place to go home after a tiring day would help them destress and provide quality care for our kids the next day. This could minimize teachers leaving the profession.
Some private secondary, colleges, and universities offer housing as an incentive and to ease the realities of lower pay. It makes sense and the needs and benefits seem obvious. Bravo to this school.
It makes more sense than paying them more money? They have the money to buy property and pay for taxes and maintenance, but no money to pay staff a living wage?
While you raise pay for politicians, ceos, lawyers, athletes and celebrities. Look at sports making money obsolete by offering 9 figure pay days while teachers cant afford houses. Greed.
Glad theyre doing this. Wished they offered this before i switched careers. I'd be told if i was close to losing my apartment at times "well you didn't major in this field to get rich so suck it up".
This is a good thing, but A daycare worker is not a teacher. It’s the same as calling a nurse’s aid a nurse. They are two different things. One is a college educated person and one is not. There is a distinction
Great idea. This is thinking about a 2 part problem and creating a bold solution. My only comment is on the houses themselves. Is the design practical and sustainable? Sorry, but my experience with architects has been designing creative spaces that use bad material, waste space and impractical designs for real living. The 2 story space may be visual pleasing but is it practical? Cost effective? Not saying design ugly basic and cheap. Just asking, is this the best design, wisest choice in materials for the need while being creative?
Everyone's situation is different. In 2008, I left the US to teach in Korea for about the same salary. Similar to this, I received a free apartment. With a salary of less than $40k USD but a free apartment (and no vehicle), I was able to pay off some debts and save money for the first time in my life. It's not a bad deal and will surely offer stability to the woman in this particular story. After she's recovered financially, she may choose to do something else like I did after 5 years of teaching.
The way you say this is as if you think owning is the norm. It isn't its the exception. With her salary she isn't going to own anything. Which puts her in permanent renting status. So free housing is a massive benefit. Its basically a wage increase. I'm not saying its the answer for everything or everyone's situation but don't dismiss this out of hand.
@@writerconsidered actually, home ownership is the norm when you look up the stats but at at $14.22 per hour its not the norm. She's making a total of $29,577.6 a year pre-tax. At most, she can only spend $690.14 for a monthly mortgage (if she's using the 28% gross to income ratio rule), which means that she'll only be able to have a mortgage of $94,150 30 years at 7.994% interest rate (standard). If her husband makes the same amount, they'll have a budge of $188,300. Which means they'll have to invest some money over several years, and get lucky to purchase a house in that area.
@@BearingMySeoul not sure when you went to S.K., but you shouldn't have debt. Either you graduated and had debt from student loads and/or credit card debt, or you had additional debt (e.g. medical). Regardless, its absurd that someone with a college degree has debt and has to teach in English making $2k a month, but Is reflective what the market bears. You could have easily made $2k a week with a skill that was valuable.
@@Sam11747 I'm around the age of the teacher in this video. Choices that seem absurd now were not when we were graduating and choosing majors. We've also weathered multiple economic crashes: the first tech boom and crash, Y2K, 9-11, and 2008. Some people found themselves on the wrong side of all of them. By God's grace, I was in Korea for the last one and have been building upwards since then. Not everyone was so fortunate.
@@danielszymanski-jw5kq This video isn't about public schools. I think it's about a private pre-school. Hopefully public school teachers make more money than the teacher in this video.
Everyone who pays for housing and/or pays taxes IS chipping in for public schools, only they probably don't realize it. Landlords are property owners too, and they simply pass on their property taxes to renters.
@@gemmeldrakes2758 unfortunately that's ended when she agreed to appear on a public TV show and mention a son, sans a father. I didn't see anyone force her to do that. Like it or not the public will have opinions on publicly available matters. It comes with the territory.
There is no free housing. Someone is paying for it. If you take into account free housing and a pension and summers off, teacher pay suddenly doesn't look too bad. But in any case the conversation is missing the point, which is this: teacher pay is what it is because of two factors: (1) the skills are not scarce (people who choose high-paying other careers could become teachers, but not necessarily vice versa), and (2) teaching is best viewed in terms of being a secondary, not primary, household income. If teachers expect to be a sole breadwinner with a career in teaching, they should set their sights on the university level, not the grade school level. Also, it needs to be said: not all teachers are heroic, just because they have kids in their charge. Some may be spouting ideology, or may even be bad at their jobs, and some might feel like glorified babysitters. All this is possible, and is wrapped up in the teacher pay topic.
Wow. I have so much to say. For one, teachers are not paid for their “summers off.” We are paid for 10 months of work but the money is spread to 12 months. The paycheck I receive in July is from work I was not paid for in January. Many teachers are required to complete professional development work over the summer and others choose to plan for the next year during this time. Teacher pay is low because it has traditionally been a woman’s job, and seen as less important. We could have had higher paying careers as well. I personally have a Masters Degree and chose to teach in public school because my professor told me that I would be paid more that way than at a university (because K-12 schools offer increased wage as you earn more college credits). I knew going into teaching that I wouldn’t be rich, but that doesn’t mean that teachers everywhere should accept unlivable wages. To your last point I agree, not all teachers are heroes. However, heroism is not a prerequisite to a fair wage.
Teachers are legally required to talk to kids for typically only 6 hours a day x 180 days yearly. In exchange, the average teacher gets $57k. That is over $50 hourly, plus a pension for life and a surviving beneficiary, plus PSLF to forgive any amount of federal student debt. $50 hourly is more than 6x the federal minimum wage. Groceries yearly, property taxes, and utilities, and an unlimited bus pass yearly per person are only $10k (maximum) per person yearly. $57k is exceedingly more than enough to support a family today in the US. People need to get a grip on reality. Stop trying to get overpaid to babysit. Stop it. Just stop it.
NEVER NEVER tie your housing to your job.
PAY. YOUR. TEACHERS
Yes, but if she works there a couple of years and stacks her money she will be fine.
I came here to say this
@@Allinmyworldwhat money? That is well below poverty wages for a job requiring a degree.
What if your employer asks you to stay late and you say you can't. Can the employer say, "I'm paying for your FREE housing!" Are you required to work over the summer? Most teachers take the summer off. This seems like a good idea, but what happens if the teacher becomes seriously ill and has to go on FMLA? There are so many scenarios where I can see this going wrong.
They look for any reason not to increase wages. Always.
If children are the future, then why do we invest so little in them. 😡
Pretty sure if this goes on much longer we have no future.
@@bessermt Yup!
The children are supposed to work and pay the retirement of the older folks.
Nothing could go wrong with this system 😃
It’s cause there are millions of them, even thousands a year would be billions of dollars
@@johngo9541 oh stop it! This country sends billions of dollars to Israel and Ukraine to make a few, so investing in the kids would be a better investment than throwing money away on those countries. Those countries need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!
My first full-time teaching position was in rural Idaho where the school district provided a teacherage (a home they owned) to live in. That year I was paid 20K and rent was $150 a month, taken out pre-taxes. the house wasn't' much but I walked to work. I've always thought all school districts should have these for staff.
I agree. Having a decent home provided to workers that are just starting out, can be quite beneficial. Especially if it’s a short walk to work. Living wages should always be provided but decent affordable housing is helpful too.
Speaking as a fmr teacher (albeit, college) this seems great until you're laid off and now you're homeless too. Also my coworkers who accepted housing had to follow strict rules about decor, parking, outdoor furniture and even an unspoken code of honor/ethics thing where they'd be pulled aside and spoken to if word got out that they had a party that got loud or went late. I never accepted the housing and instead demanded the monetary equivalent be added to my paycheck (you'd get more pay but would have to find your own housing and the equivalent was peanuts so dont expect it to cover private housing.) I watched so many coworker friends feel fed up and controlled under the housing option. i may have paid more to have my own off campus place but I credit my sanity to making that choice. Definitely something to think about before agreeing to it.
Save what you would normally pay for housing
This is a very creative solution. Educators get housing, the college students get experience. This could be expanded & offer experience to trade schools as well. I'm for it as long as the educators are qualified & the students are thriving.
nowadays with bad unions, you can bet unqualified teachers would be included.
Y’all will do anything other than pay teachers more
There will be drama with the professors. They're always is with humans.
It’s indentured servitude. Kings and pharaohs did this to make people build their kingdoms.
$29K a year for a full-time educator? How is this possible in a so-called "first-world economy"?
Its not free housing, it is a benefit like retirement, health insurance.
As a working mom of two children under age 5 I have such respect and gratitude for early childhood employees. Give them allllll the things they deserve.
I actually preferred the system whereby you would be the person in charge of the early childhood development of your own preschool children, but that's gone out the window for maybe half the nation.
They deserve a living wage. This is an excuse not to pay them what they deserve. If you can't pay people a living wage, then do without the service.
@mandycole3757 no it is not an excuse. Giving them free housing means that they can use their wages for other things and not have to worry about not being able to pay their bills. Rent would be the main expense anyways.
@@mandycole3757I don't believe that. Some jobs do not "deserve a living wage", because they are commonly understood as being secondary sources of household income, plus there is not a scarce supply of qualified (or qualifiable) labor. My dishwasher job as a teen was not expected to provide me with a living wage. Nor are any minimum-wage jobs out there today. It's a mistake to advocate that adult breadwinners should take these jobs and then expect to earn "a living wage".
And what is a "living wage" anyway? The ability to afford high rents in the location of choice? The alternative is to live elsewhere where rent is lower.
Now, specifically for the job of "teacher" (as opposed to professors at colleges and universities), it's not a minimum-wage job, but the same concept applies. If the pay is what it is (and takes into account a slightly shorter work year and often the promise of a pension), then single breadwinners should ask themselves if they really want the job, and whether they will be able to afford living in the location of their choice. Instead of demanding a taxpayer boost to their earnings to make this happen, they should find another more lucrative position in another field, or plan to teach in a cheaper location. Otherwise they should leave the teaching jobs to those for whom it's a secondary household income.
Another point: If you raise the salaries for teachers, to make those salaries equivalent to those of many dreary office jobs, then those office workers might just end up flooding the teacher market, taking those jobs from those who otherwise would become teachers.
So these are just some thoughts for your consideration. I personally have no use for the "they are educating our children so deserve to be paid well" argument. Teachers are a mixed bag: some are good, some are bad, some are unfit for other jobs, some are indoctrinators, some do it primarily to avoid other types of work and for the time off in summer. But most, I assume, enjoy teaching at the grade school level, are dedicated to their classes, but don't enjoy the administrative mandates.
@@mandycole3757 Notice that the early educator's hourly was $14.22, that is only .77 lower than what is considered a "living wage." The costs associated with increasing the income of that teacher is such that it's cheaper to give them a home.
If they can afford to provide housing they can afford livable wages.
I'm glad they have temporary relief, but your employer providing housing won't end any better than your employer providing healthcare. Now you'll ignore the bad pay, because it lets you keep your home, but you still can't afford to leave. If things get really bad and you quit, or you get fired, or you get too sick to work, you also get kicked out of your home! You still have no savings, because your boss had no reason to ever pay you a living wage!
Agreed. There should be some protections guaranteeing you can continue to rent the place at a reasonable rate for a certain amount of time after leaving the job.
Good point.
If someone is not paying rent then they should be able to save money and have a savings.
If rent is provided why the he'll would anyone want to leave save up. People work 3 jobs just to pay the rent it's the reason we work to put a roof over the head. If it's provided than that knocks off about 1/3 or even 2/3 of your monthly expenses. I would save till a find something more suitable. People always got something to complain about a don't look at the bigger picture.
@@felipenunez2058 So basically, you agree that people will get locked into bad jobs because of housing. Good to know.
When I took a teaching job in China from 2009-2013, the monthly's pay was categorized in parts of the % as housing, so we only pay tax for the non housing amount. The employer was a Singaporean private company. This can be adopted here too
That changed just before the pandemic. China now taxes housing, transportation, and free tuition for dependent children benefits.
Beautiful things happen when humans collaborate outside of the box.
NO. This is a stupid idea. Your housing should not be tied to your job. That will make it alot harder to leave a bad job or avoid getting fired. This is what they did for me when I was teaching in korea. Not worth it
What happens if they want to take a position at a different school? Do they lose housing?
I would think so.
they want to entrap teachers into low-paying positions so they don't leave
I can appreciate this creative solution to a growing problem and it's application. However, why are these people that are entrusted to care for other people's kids only making 14.55 an hour/29,000 a year? That's subpar pay. Chances are these people have to go to work sick, use food banks, emergencies cannot happen.
It seems as though it's the same application of tying healthcare to your job. It was started very long ago but insurance companies came in and saw the profit so now we're in a healthcare crisis based on what someone else thinks you need.
BTW, it's none of our business why the father is or isn't involved. It could very easily be a DV, rape/SA, death situation.
There has to be something better than paying the teachers low wages and requiring them to pay into the state retirement. They literally take out $800 of your check.
Wow! This was my idea last year but for public school teachers.
Have you reached out to your local trade schools and unis for working through this project? Try and make it happen!
It is really bad when politicians can give themselves a raise judges can get a raise, but yet teachers can’t get a raise and they’re teaching the future of this country. That’s a damn shame.
This is serfdom. Pay people a living salary, or do without the service. People are very selfish. They expect people to care for their children, but they don't want to pay for it.
C'mon America, these people are educating your children. How are they not earning good wages? How are we comfortable with them not being able to keep a roof over their heads? Some of you will nickel and dime the teacher who is teaching your child to read but think the finance bro on the other side of town deserves his outrageous salary and bonus.
The short answer is that it was never set up as a single breadwinner job. Teacher pay alone is not enough for a roof. (The same goes for most restaurant and hospitality jobs, yet adult immigrants entering those positions has led to America treating those jobs as single-breadwinner jobs now as well, which is a mistake.)
The expectation was that a teacher always relied on someone else in the household to have the primary salary. This method still works well, but is not as common as before, because many women get married later or remain single. If they are teachers, they are left trying to make ends meet in a career that was never designed for that.
But even so, why is teacher pay "so low"? (even after adjusting for reduced work in summer, and (if applicable) pensions)
It's because the skills are not deemed scarce enough (unlike at the university level). "Anyone" can become a teacher. That means that existing teachers can be replaced by others, many of whom would work at the existing pay rate (because those replacements would be either young singles or else those who will rely on someone else's primary income).
@richatlarge462 …except it was originally a job mostly done by men and who were the breadwinners and it was reasonably paid then. Not well paid, but not poverty wages. So what changed? …women started doing it.
As for the skillset not being deemed scarce enough. Have you missed all the headlines about America’s teacher shortage? 🥴
@@naomi5495 I don't know when mostly men were teachers, but mostly women have been teachers ever since World War II and probably before that.
But yes, one unintended consequence of women going into professions is that there are more people chasing limited jobs, so the pay goes down, as covered in Economics 1. Or else, which might be more applicable here, when women became teachers, they tended to live in households in which their husbands were the primary breadwinners, and hence were willing to work as teachers at the pay rate offered.
What I mean by the skillset not being scarce is that almost anybody who wants to be can become a teacher. The reason there is a shortage is not based on skills, it's based on the deterioration of the teaching experience due to how schools are being run, and frankly due to the quality of families with kids in public schools in most cities.
schools are businesses first, they are incorporated. Their job first is to make money for shareholders and lastly, give product. This isnt a joke. Education is just something they produce. This is basically shrinkflation but for education. Alot good their unions have done for them, their admins get paid 6figs while they fight for min wage
Who is paying the property or school taxes? And I guess if there’s a conflict with the employee and they are let go….they lose the housing? Do they owe any money back? Like my job has tuition reimbursement, but if you leave in a certain time frame….you have to pay it back.
I love seeing this solution in action! I am so appreciative of teachers!
@2:10 They are probably not doing this out of altruism, but rather out of necessity in order to retain staff. Connecticut doesn't have a lot of affordable housing, and the ppl who live there want teachers to teach but not to live in their community in planned housing. A lot of those areas are very suburban and residential, and they want it to stay that way.
This is why I only do 1099 contracts with early childhood because $14 or $15 an hour is not enough with taxes taken out!
This housing solution for teachers may seem like a generous idea, but I see it as an insult to teachers. People that go to college and earn teaching degrees should get a decent salary so they can purchase a house or afford rent. It's absurd that teachers should have to depend on handouts. Increase teacher pay by paying teachers to stay one to three hours after the students leave school for the day to plan lessons, prepare learning materials, grade assignments, communicate with parents and colleagues, tutor students, etc. This is what teachers do anyway, but without pay which is unacceptable.
Why are teachers paid so low? Imagine going to school paying over $200k for school (undergrad and masters) just to get paid less than your student who works at Taco Bell after school. 🤷🏽♀️ Could have just saved the $200k and went straight to Taco Bell after graduating high school. At least after 4yrs you’ll be a shift manager making more that minimum wage
Exactly.
mcdonalds is literally paying more
Friends Center for Children is remarkable in many ways. It's a co-op, which means every family contributes something and that lowers cost per child. It grew out of Friends asking the Meeting's neighbors what they needed and how the Meeting could help.
That’s all great but what about the mental health workers I literally saw my salary stay the same and McDonald’s salary surpassed mine in ten years
The problem with this is a house is a way to build wealth and retire. How do these people retire if their housing is 100% dependent on working .
Hopefully they put some of the money they don't need to spend on rent into retirement savings, then collect retirement pay and social security after retiring. If they do it right they will hopefully be able to afford to buy eventually or at least make ends meet in retirement. It's a matter of planning and financial discipline.
Another idea would be to allow teachers not to have to pay income tax and give them really low interest rate loans on properties (with no property taxes attached). Those are two simple ideas that could be implemented immediately.
Our society is set up to respect the rich and criticize the poor -- even those poor working full time jobs. I hope more states can make housing available for teachers.
What about other dchool staff as well? These programs exclude a lot of people when other school staff arent making millions either.
I just had a coworker at a school get evicted and she lost her job too because she was calling off of work to secure housing.
This is so sweet. I love this 💖
These are the things I want to do when I win the power ball or mega millions.
Hopefully you would
This is an EXCELLENT program! I LOVE this!
Are these good, safe houses or slums? Is this trapping teachers into a cycle of poverty? This seems good on the surface, but I worry that this is gilded chains.
And at the end of the day, you're not a home owner. You are living in work housing-for as long as that lasts.
The house at the end looked really nice
No thanks don’t want to be owned by the state
I spent the last 10 years teaching abroad because my housing was provided
This is so amazing! Kudos to the principal for coming up wit this initiative!
Really? This was easier than providing a living wage.
Wow! CBS, thank you for sharing this story ❤!
We have this in my country, The teachers that work at the school had shared housing, it was like an apartment style. The location of the housing was also across from the school therefore you were able to save a lot. To be honest, it actually worked really well.
Wow!!! This is awesome
If you lose your job, you also lose your housing. You don’t want to be in that situation
She'll become homeless once she retires.
Love it. The milk of human kindness.
Why not just use this money to pay teacher more?
This is a great idea. We need more people to take jobs like this, but if they can't afford to, they will do something else, or they will be stressed everyday and not give kids the kind of attention they deserve. This should definitely stop the turnover of employees. They should try something like this with caretakers for seniors too. We need caretakers, but many aren't paid enough. People who aren't paid enough usually don't do as good of a job.
Some still do a good job but don't stay long
@@naturegirl2110 Agree, some people will always try to do a good job.
when you tie a house to your job, they can easily pull the rug and make you homeless if they choose to
It’s not a perfect solution but it’s a try. There is always room for improvement.
If only the Philippine government can come up with a solution like this for the private school teachers
Low paid civil servants definitely ahould get assistance. They are connected to supporting our children.
Basically slavery of old is better than current workers
I hope I get a job with my degree soon. I work in child care in NYS. I make 15$ an hour. If I didn’t live with my boyfriend who pays most the rent I would make -1000 a month and need S8 . I already get Food Stamps. I wouldn’t be able to afford housing.
Amazing!
Great idea!
Love this idea!
This exists at schools with GDP level money.
Bringing the college students in - who will incur wilder childcare costs in 5-10 years - is the kind of reality check needed for structural change.
Did I miss how this is being financed? This seems to be the key component of making it feasible. I'm assuming the owner of the day care had a large savings and investments to pull from. I doubt most day care owners could afford such an option.
This should be done for Social Workers with a Bachelor's Degree who don't get paid much.
The house is beautiful!
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This is a wonderful idea!
Sadly many so called parents don't want to raise their children. Many send them to school to be baby sat. A former teacher told me in 2001 not to think about it let alone do it. Teachers deserve excellent pay for the impossible job they have. Children are the future not us old people.
You got good advice! Teaching leads to extreme poverty in my state to say nothing of the stress, etc.
My childhood friend’s mother worked at a preschool and had a a living space that was connected to it. There should be care for teachers just as they care for future generations.
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Policies need to change but given the resources now, this was smart. I workes for a school in Colombia that provided housing. Unfortunately my boss was pretty toxic, so i was still stressed havinbmy job tied to my house. However, it was MUCH better than not knowing if i could make rent each month or not being able to afford it at all
This is so smart and truly caring.
I am confused. I understand that Connecticut is offering FREE housing to early childhood teachers. What this story failed to explain is HOW. Who bought the land to plop this house down on? Who is paying for the house if it's rent-free for the teachers? I know the Yale architecture students drew the plans and help build the homes, but I am not understanding the financing part. Somebody has to be paying for the housing. Free is never free.
You will not own anything, and you will love it.
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Great idea. If schools can't pay that much, at least give some form of incentive in order to retain teachers. Having a decent place to go home after a tiring day would help them destress and provide quality care for our kids the next day. This could minimize teachers leaving the profession.
Some private secondary, colleges, and universities offer housing as an incentive and to ease the realities of lower pay. It makes sense and the needs and benefits seem obvious. Bravo to this school.
It makes more sense than paying them more money? They have the money to buy property and pay for taxes and maintenance, but no money to pay staff a living wage?
@@SonyaTheSidePieceCrumbSnatcherGood point.
Do that in my state and I’ll go back to teaching 😂
If you’re talking about California Eddie ever gonna happen the state is for the rich Democrats only and they’re Chinese investors
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While you raise pay for politicians, ceos, lawyers, athletes and celebrities. Look at sports making money obsolete by offering 9 figure pay days while teachers cant afford houses. Greed.
Not a viable solution.
Prof. Thomas Sowell called SOFT APARTHEID!! This is nothing more than a gimmick….
Glad theyre doing this. Wished they offered this before i switched careers. I'd be told if i was close to losing my apartment at times "well you didn't major in this field to get rich so suck it up".
I remember hearing about this place during the pandemic I’m
Amazed by this solution from Ms.Calderon
This is a good thing, but
A daycare worker is not a teacher.
It’s the same as calling a nurse’s aid a nurse.
They are two different things.
One is a college educated person and one is not.
There is a distinction
Great. Maybe she can earn more units and become a certificated teacher and work at a public school. It would possibly pay more.
Yay! Housing connected with jobs.
Good
I don’t mind my taxes paying for this..NOT on those migrants.
Great idea. This is thinking about a 2 part problem and creating a bold solution.
My only comment is on the houses themselves. Is the design practical and sustainable? Sorry, but my experience with architects has been designing creative spaces that use bad material, waste space and impractical designs for real living. The 2 story space may be visual pleasing but is it practical? Cost effective? Not saying design ugly basic and cheap. Just asking, is this the best design, wisest choice in materials for the need while being creative?
Wow beautiful, It reminds me back to like pre world war one when employers who often have housing for employees.
They're glorified babysitters. The amount of education required to do the job is absurd. Offering "free" housing they will never own is a sick joke.
Everyone's situation is different. In 2008, I left the US to teach in Korea for about the same salary. Similar to this, I received a free apartment. With a salary of less than $40k USD but a free apartment (and no vehicle), I was able to pay off some debts and save money for the first time in my life. It's not a bad deal and will surely offer stability to the woman in this particular story. After she's recovered financially, she may choose to do something else like I did after 5 years of teaching.
The way you say this is as if you think owning is the norm. It isn't its the exception. With her salary she isn't going to own anything. Which puts her in permanent renting status. So free housing is a massive benefit. Its basically a wage increase.
I'm not saying its the answer for everything or everyone's situation but don't dismiss this out of hand.
@@writerconsidered actually, home ownership is the norm when you look up the stats but at at $14.22 per hour its not the norm. She's making a total of $29,577.6 a year pre-tax. At most, she can only spend $690.14 for a monthly mortgage (if she's using the 28% gross to income ratio rule), which means that she'll only be able to have a mortgage of $94,150 30 years at 7.994% interest rate (standard). If her husband makes the same amount, they'll have a budge of $188,300. Which means they'll have to invest some money over several years, and get lucky to purchase a house in that area.
@@BearingMySeoul not sure when you went to S.K., but you shouldn't have debt. Either you graduated and had debt from student loads and/or credit card debt, or you had additional debt (e.g. medical). Regardless, its absurd that someone with a college degree has debt and has to teach in English making $2k a month, but Is reflective what the market bears. You could have easily made $2k a week with a skill that was valuable.
@@Sam11747 I'm around the age of the teacher in this video. Choices that seem absurd now were not when we were graduating and choosing majors. We've also weathered multiple economic crashes: the first tech boom and crash, Y2K, 9-11, and 2008. Some people found themselves on the wrong side of all of them. By God's grace, I was in Korea for the last one and have been building upwards since then. Not everyone was so fortunate.
Stop having only property owners pay for schools!! Every one needs to chip.in !!
Property owners? Parents are paying a fortune to send their kids to places like this.
@@les0101s lmao 🤣 😂! Property owners in pa are the only ones that pay for public education! The funding problem is because of that
@@danielszymanski-jw5kq This video isn't about public schools. I think it's about a private pre-school. Hopefully public school teachers make more money than the teacher in this video.
Everyone who pays for housing and/or pays taxes IS chipping in for public schools, only they probably don't realize it. Landlords are property owners too, and they simply pass on their property taxes to renters.
@@richatlarge462 Agree. Rents go up at least once a year, sometimes twice, and landlords bring up property taxes as one of the main reasons.
Where’s the father of her kids? I think supporting families, including the father, is the solution.
Where do you think he is? He probably dipped. It's not uncommon.
Or may be she was riding the CC, and doesn't know who the father is. It's not that uncommon.
That's none of your business. How are you helping your community?
Or maybe not speculate or pass judgement on the life on someone you don't know? I wish that were more common.
@@gemmeldrakes2758 unfortunately that's ended when she agreed to appear on a public TV show and mention a son, sans a father. I didn't see anyone force her to do that. Like it or not the public will have opinions on publicly available matters. It comes with the territory.
No equity, but a very nice program.
There is no free housing. Someone is paying for it. If you take into account free housing and a pension and summers off, teacher pay suddenly doesn't look too bad. But in any case the conversation is missing the point, which is this: teacher pay is what it is because of two factors: (1) the skills are not scarce (people who choose high-paying other careers could become teachers, but not necessarily vice versa), and (2) teaching is best viewed in terms of being a secondary, not primary, household income. If teachers expect to be a sole breadwinner with a career in teaching, they should set their sights on the university level, not the grade school level.
Also, it needs to be said: not all teachers are heroic, just because they have kids in their charge. Some may be spouting ideology, or may even be bad at their jobs, and some might feel like glorified babysitters. All this is possible, and is wrapped up in the teacher pay topic.
Wow. I have so much to say. For one, teachers are not paid for their “summers off.” We are paid for 10 months of work but the money is spread to 12 months. The paycheck I receive in July is from work I was not paid for in January. Many teachers are required to complete professional development work over the summer and others choose to plan for the next year during this time. Teacher pay is low because it has traditionally been a woman’s job, and seen as less important. We could have had higher paying careers as well. I personally have a Masters Degree and chose to teach in public school because my professor told me that I would be paid more that way than at a university (because K-12 schools offer increased wage as you earn more college credits). I knew going into teaching that I wouldn’t be rich, but that doesn’t mean that teachers everywhere should accept unlivable wages. To your last point I agree, not all teachers are heroes. However, heroism is not a prerequisite to a fair wage.
Teachers are legally required to talk to kids for typically only 6 hours a day x 180 days yearly. In exchange, the average teacher gets $57k. That is over $50 hourly, plus a pension for life and a surviving beneficiary, plus PSLF to forgive any amount of federal student debt.
$50 hourly is more than 6x the federal minimum wage.
Groceries yearly, property taxes, and utilities, and an unlimited bus pass yearly per person are only $10k (maximum) per person yearly. $57k is exceedingly more than enough to support a family today in the US.
People need to get a grip on reality.
Stop trying to get overpaid to babysit.
Stop it.
Just stop it.
she's a single mom. where are her baby daddy's child support money
I dont care about this. Im not a teacher.
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