$9/hour charter school teachers in Arizona??? [View all]

[HiPointDem]

Post Script: September 23, 2012

I received this comment from a mother-in-law of a teacher working in a charter school. This clearly outlines all that is wrong with privatizing our schools:

My daughter-in-law is a charter school teacher in Tucson Arizona – as it was the only job she could get as public schools are closing and they are laying off public teachers due to lack of funding. She get paid only $9 an hour – she is expected to work 10 or so hours( with no overtime) – clean her classroom (as the Owner of the Charter school does no want to hire a janitor – “too expensive”) AND Charter School teachers are not covered by a Union. The woman who owns the school owns 6 others – and is quite weathly – THIS IS A BUSINESS MONEY MAKING endeavor — AND they take precious financial resources from the “regular” Public Schools. Vote NO on this Initiative!!

http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/the-inconvenient-truth-about-initiative-1240/


I found it unbelievable so I went looking through job ads. Didn't find a $9/hr teaching job, but found an $11/hr teaching job, which is about as bad -- that's $22.8K a year for a full regular year. Here's the job description:

Teachers, Assistant Teachers, and Aids (sic)

(I thought the 'aids' might be the fault of the website until i found the same ad on another site.)

We are a progressive, alternative learning community dedicated to offering opportunities to students that don't fit in the "one size fits all" conventional public school system. We are looking for persons of generous spirit, personal integrity, and a gift for tolerance with many of the skills of a stand-up comic to challenge our students to re-discover their JOY in learning. We are a four year charter high school on the East side of Tucson that has several elementary level trained teachers because so many of our students come to us reading below the 5th grade level.

What we do here is unique and conventional educational training leads to a different path. As a charter school, we are not required to hire certified teachers except in Special Education. We are in construction of our new 34,000 sq/ft facility and we are in need of help in virtually all of our departments, full time and part time for both primary and assistant teachers and aides.

This is your opportunity to get involved in our project of reclamation and make a difference in the lives of these denied students as we have for the last 11 years. Please check out our web page for details at Employment at CompassHighSchool.com. Our process begins with an email reply with a resume and letter of interest/introduction.

Location: East Tucson
Compensation: $11 -$15 per hour depending on experience

(So experience gets you $15 an hour. Wow.)

http://tucson.craigslist.org/edu/3300385237.html

Whoever's doing their copy has some kind of literacy problem:

Teacher and Teacher Assistants Positions Wanted

http://www.compasshighschool.com/employment.html