Tribune Watchdog: Suburbs' $100,000 teachers

"Glenbard Township High School District 87 in DuPage asked its union to reopen contract talks "and they were not interested in doing it,'' said Chris McClain, the assistant superintendent for business services. Glenbard is cutting staff and reducing costs as it projects declining revenues and reserves in the next five years. A third of its teachers earned $100,000 or more in 2009."

So when they say that teachers earn more than a 100k is that total compensation or just salary.

I am curious, because my stepdaughter just graduated from college in education. 4 years cost 120k plus she is told she would need to go on for a masters. She told me that starting salaries are in the 30's. I am frankly surprised that anyone even bothers going into teaching.

In the full Trib article they had a distribution of the $100K teachers by speciality. The largest group was phys ed teachers! Can someone confirm that the phys ed total comp gets augmented by coaching positions? I don't see any other reason why they'd be the largest $100K specialty?

According to the D87 salary schedule, a new teacher with a BS starts at $48,130.

D87 salary schedule

Wow....I knew I got the wrong degree....

I don't know why we even teach phys ed in schools. Save a lot of money if you eliminated it and get back more class time. It's by no means a universal offering in the rest of the world.

....and yet the rest of the world is seemingly less obese than we are....odd....

I work my fingers to the bone. I have no guaranteed pay raise,no union. I attend seminars and keep up with literature in my field--yup, you guessed no pay raise--in fact I PAY --for this continuing education. With those in education enjoying the summer off, 2 wks off at Christmas,etc I wonder what was I thinking to not go into education. Now, many teachers are being layed off and unfortunately it is the young,new teachers. If the selfish unions would participate in negotiate for more fair compensation in light of the current economy, perhaps not as many would need to be layed off. Ridiculous.

I apologize for the typo in my post.
I meant to say "if the selfish unions would participate in NEGOTIATIONS for more fair compensation .......

9 week in summer, 2 weeks at christmas, 1 week spring,,,hmmm 12 weeks. that would be an entire fiscal quarter. they'll be getting no sympathy until their schedule looks even a little bit like everyone else's. and throw in the eating their young....

Bio, what is it with you and gym class?

With America tipping the scales we should be making the case for more phys ed. Today phys ed includes stress management, yoga, among other things. Didn't we have this discussion before? Add in the kids, even at the HS level, that still need that movement and energy release.
And quite frankly some kids only shine in this area.
I'm impressed with the knowledge my kids leaned at Hadley regarding proper use of machines, taking their pulse and the such.
Even my oldest just demonstated her newly acquired bowling skills this summer, because of the bowling unit in jr/sr gym.

You want to pay phys ed teachers to teach kids yoga and stress management? Parents can prepare their kids for such life skills- not taxpayers IMO. As GESM2 points out- the rest of the world does not have our obesity problem without PE- clearly PE is not the answer and is not working here anyway. And with all the non-school team sports available I'd rather save the tax money. Gotta start to cut somewhere.

last i heard only 2 states require gym for 4 years. bottom line: can't afford it. and any benefit from PE is offset by the CRAP they feed kids in the cafeteria. best PE: walk up and down the hill and the building at west. that'll keep you in shape.

lol Howdy. It does beg the point though that there are plenty of extra curricular athletic activities- from swimming to soccer. And can you imagine the cost savings if we didn't have to double the land area and add the additional building space to provide all the athletic fields, gymnasiums, equipment, not to mention the teacher salaries. HUGE savings IMO.

Well at least we know better than to believe political BS out of Jack Roeser and Bill Zettler and their "Champion News". Cripes, they even supported Keyes years ago.

As part of the Deficit reduction plan. One item being considered is to move retirement age for SS to seventy from its current sixty six.

So, while government employees will be retiring in their early fifties the rest of us will have to work until we reach seventy.

The three Illinois Pension funds are expected to run out of money in 2018.

You can disagree with the politics of the people who run "The Champions" web site but by and large their facts are correct.

If you believe undocumented tripe written in political smear rags, you're beyond my help. Jack Roeser, Homophobic Republican Who Spread Mark Kirk Gay Rumor, On The Rise In State GOP

I am not a NUT JOB!

The Democrats are actually rejoicing- First he slanders Kirk and then he supports him- Even the Tea Party is trying to distance themselves.

Sorry, not taking the bait- so your opinion is based on unsubstantiated bs like that found on smear rags like the "Champion News"- BTW Mr. Retnut or whatever his name is, that writes all the Champion article portends to have his "own" mathematical formula to evaluate the "real" value of public pensions LOL. Obviously I prefer actual facts from as close to unbiased sources as I can find in order to understand the world I live in.

You mean like this Bio.

Love how you tap dance when facts don't match your world view. I guess those facts are the ones you choose to ignore.

Bankrupt Illinois

Now why would I possibly have a problem with that story? Did you read my last message or look at the Champion site? Hello, McFLY! "knock on the forehead" are you really telling me you can't see a difference in the reporting? Whoa.