RIF Me, Please. I Can’t Afford to Teach.
I’m going to sound like a total a-hole, but will someone RIF me, please? If you’re one of the thousands of teachers in the LAUSD who got a Reduction in Force notice, I will happily trade my job for your un-employment.
I’ve got three year old twins and childcare runs about $600 a week. After all the furlough days that hit LAUSD teachers over the last few years, take-home pay is about $1,200 a week. So for me, after childcare, take home pay is about $600 ($280 in a five week month). Unemployment is currently $450 a week.
You get the idea?
PESJA Los Angeles (@PESJA_LA) replied:
You mean all the nonsense from Newt Gingrich, Michelle Rhee, and Ben Boychuck about teachers being overpaid and only working a few hours a year are untrue? Call us flabbergasted.
March 16, 2012 at 5:39 pm. Permalink.
oneteacherleftbehind replied:
Hope I didn’t ruin your weekend, PESJA, with my shocking news.
March 16, 2012 at 7:23 pm. Permalink.
Ruth replied:
I taught Family & Consumer Education for 15 years. School budgets cut my department and often my job to save money. My last contract was for 31%. I also had to go to college for 6 credits to maintain my license. The school suggested I get a Masters. I would have to live on borrowed money because I would not be making any. I left and I have been living on part-time work
July 13, 2012 at 3:13 pm. Permalink.