Two ladies I went to high school with who became teachers posted on FB they are leaving. I know some teachers who did an early retirement in their 50s too. Seems like nowadays it's not worth it.
Seems like a lot of teachers are retiring early or quitting
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If you start teaching at 22, by the time you are 54, you have 32 years teaching, and have achieved your 85 factor. You now qualify for your full pension. Why would you stick around?
Unreduced pension too, also defined benefits. And with the way the little shits are behaving in school these days who can blame the teaches for bailing early.
Types of pensions
Learn about unreduced, reduced and disability pensions and their eligibility criteria
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Thank you for the info. Is this standard for all Gov't agencies. City, Province and Federal.?
It could be me ( I know a few people that worked for the Gov't ) but I notice these people end up disappearing and when they pass away at early age 60 - 72 some with mental issues. Am I imagining this?
It could be me ( I know a few people that worked for the Gov't ) but I notice these people end up disappearing and when they pass away at early age 60 - 72 some with mental issues. Am I imagining this?
Unreduced pension too, also defined benefits. And with the way the little shits are behaving in school these days who can blame the teaches for bailing early.
Types of pensions
Learn about unreduced, reduced and disability pensions and their eligibility criteria
A little misleading.
Teachers pay over 10% of their salary into their pensions.
Teachers get no post retirement healthcare from their former employer. There are plans they can buy.
They work for 8 months and get paid for 12 months in addition to vacations.
Let them quit and get lost. Plenty of people don't even have enough to pay rent and put food on the table.
CP
Let them quit and get lost. Plenty of people don't even have enough to pay rent and put food on the table.
CP
I have seen it a few times myself, it is more complicated than it looks. Teachers spend years feeling underpaid ( merely because the unions say they are ) and sometimes disrespected by students, and often the union rules make things worse instead of better. By the time they reach pension age, many feel pressure to retire, not because they want to, but because they’ve hit the maximum payout. When they finally leave, they lose the routine, the purpose, and the daily structure that teaching gave them. That emptiness can be hard to handle, and without something new to fill the gap, health and mental struggles can set in. Very often teachers will gripe and complain, but this is as good as their life can be for them.
I'm not sure what the Toronto school board does these days but I grew up in the 90s and we'd get homework at grade 4 and up. Coming how with textbooks and novels to read then be quizzed on them. Not sure if they still implement homework. My kids deal with Trillium school board and there's no homework until maybe grade 8 otherwise not until high school starts. So they basically come home with no work and it's on me to give them some added practice stuff which isn't my responsibility and there's not much quiz stuff either. A lot of the kids struggle to read/write too and probably spend most of the time on social media clips. At least with homework it would give them a chance to do something at home for an extra hour or two which involves practice. Teachers have it extremely easy besides dealing with some abusive degenerate parents/kids.
1: The educational hurdles to be a teacher are not high. Anyone with half a brain can get an arts degree and finish teachers college. You could be a teacher if you wanted to.
2: Starting salary after a min. 5 years of post secondary is ~55k. IF you can get full time. you're more likely to be doing supply/occasional, so you'll be making less than that.
3: You top out at 100k in year 10. That's not nothing, but it doesn't buy a house in the GTA.
Don't be jealous. Unionize.
Don’t blame them one bit. From being unsafe in the classroom to being asked to do the impossible over covid with online learning with no structure in place to being a political punching bag over the past 30 yrs, all for a salary that gets a 1% raise every year thats not even close to the cost of inflation.
Want to retain teachers? Pay them more and make the schools a safe work environment (as required by law). Otherwise the exodus will continue and your kid will be stuck in a classroom of 45 kids on a regular basis since there aren’t enough teachers.
If this is going to turn into a “lets beat up on teachers” thread, lets start by looking at the time off and salaries of firefighters, police officers, MP’s and MPPS and senators.
ps: just for comparison sake, a manager at mcdonalds makes 80k a year and a mid level buyer at costco makes 86k. Both those jobs sound way less stressful with better benefits than teaching.
Want the best for your kid? Gonna have to pay competitive wages like everyone else in our capitalist society,
Want to retain teachers? Pay them more and make the schools a safe work environment (as required by law). Otherwise the exodus will continue and your kid will be stuck in a classroom of 45 kids on a regular basis since there aren’t enough teachers.
If this is going to turn into a “lets beat up on teachers” thread, lets start by looking at the time off and salaries of firefighters, police officers, MP’s and MPPS and senators.
ps: just for comparison sake, a manager at mcdonalds makes 80k a year and a mid level buyer at costco makes 86k. Both those jobs sound way less stressful with better benefits than teaching.
Want the best for your kid? Gonna have to pay competitive wages like everyone else in our capitalist society,
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