re: EBR teachers receive $8500/year raise. 6th highest in state…

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Their argument here is that they don't need any new buildings since they have the infrastructure to hold the student capacity they've been hovering at for quite some time now.

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There are 6400 planned lots in the school district that have been approved but not built.

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EBR

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Hazard pay.

LP residents working in Baton Rouge, helping to fund these teacher raises, while the teachers in their own parish lose funding.

Sure, plenty of families bailed for Central, Zachary, AP, and LP, but the waitlists for the magnet programs in EBRP are still long. That’s my problem with the whole system. If your child doesn’t get into the magnet program, you’re stuck with either private schools or the varying quality of the remaining public/charter options.

Im really curious how many these remaining high performing students you mention get left out especially considering the magnet programs account economic disadvantage.

and EBR will still be a c- school district

At the end of the day teachers need a raise. Of you look at the article this is the first real raise they have received in 20 years as cost of living and everything else has increased. While teachers only play a small part and can't perform miracles they do a lot of growth throughout the year but there still needs to be home training.
Teachers now have the burden of not only teaching the curriculum but maintaining discipline, working as a counselor, a nurse, a librarian, etc as many schools don't have full-time positions in these areas so therefore the burden falls on the teacher. While they work 182-212 days a year depending on their status many do go to summer training, come in and work in the classroom during the summer, come in and work school improvement, or PBIS during the summer. Many districts don't pay for this while some will.
It isn't a "hard" job in a sense on labor but it can be a mentally draining job, especially when you get teachers that actually care about their students and want to see them do well. They devote extra time for them, skip their own planning period, and essentially work from the moment they arrive at school until they leave without a real break.
The hate and blame for teachers needs to be readjusted as school districts continue to create positions that are not needed instead of focusing on the students and the teachers earning those growth scores. Schools don't need 3+ principals, districts don't need 5+ curriculum "specialist" plus counseling specialists, they don't need 3+ master teachers plus 3 or more mentor teachers on every campus. Federal funding during COVID, many districts created many positions and rather than remove them now they say they are "vital" when more work is falling on the teacher in the classroom than anywhere else.

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So, the same vale as law enforcement, EMT’s, firemen?

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.......yes.

Raise pay for important jobs. Across the board. What's important?

Medicine - Pay them
Law Enforcement - Pay them
Education - Pay them
Researchers - Pay them
Farmers - Pay them. I'm split on this because farming is essentially trading on commodities, so the market should work it out, but that doesn't happen when you have big corporations pushing little farmers out.

People get pissed about taxes because government officials are sleazy and wasteful. The actual government workers are people trying to do jobs. If you raise the pay, better folks go to those jobs. And there are some great policeman and fireman and teachers who don't do it for the money. But there are way more people who would be awesome at those jobs that don't look at them because of the pay.

If I’m forced to be a teacher, salary is way under my list of priorities. The children I’m teaching is paramount.

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That's a weak arse salary for a job that requires a degree.

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not really - don’t forget Southern is in BR and they hand you a degree if you pay

And that salary is about $10,000 more than a librarian I gets paid at the public library and you have to have a masters degree to be a librarian I at ebrpl

Id rather work at the library