A Detroit-area teacher claimed she was fired from her job after the school received a complaint about her side hustle as a rapper, local media reported. Domonique Brown, a former U.S. history teach…
Why can’t teachers get respectable side jobs like mine did when I was a kid, like bagging groceries?
Seriously though, she was highly regarded by her colleagues and students and was awarded Teacher of the Month, so clearly she was doing things right and it appears that she was able to keep both sides of her life a comfortable distance from one another. They’re throwing the baby out with the bath water in a time when good teachers are harder to find, we can’t afford to lose more of them.
That’s because they know how highly valued she is and they wouldn’t want to increase a teachers pay when they could instead line their own pockets with that money. It’s an on going issue nationwide. After I left high school they let every single beloved teacher go and replaced them all with lower paid ones. The next budget meeting someone from the community asked them why the SI got a pay raise of $15k but they ended the meeting without an answer this was 10 years ago and now the position is nearly matched with the high schools entire budget…
Why can’t teachers get respectable side jobs like mine did when I was a kid, like bagging groceries?
Seriously though, she was highly regarded by her colleagues and students and was awarded Teacher of the Month, so clearly she was doing things right and it appears that she was able to keep both sides of her life a comfortable distance from one another. They’re throwing the baby out with the bath water in a time when good teachers are harder to find, we can’t afford to lose more of them.
That’s because they know how highly valued she is and they wouldn’t want to increase a teachers pay when they could instead line their own pockets with that money. It’s an on going issue nationwide. After I left high school they let every single beloved teacher go and replaced them all with lower paid ones. The next budget meeting someone from the community asked them why the SI got a pay raise of $15k but they ended the meeting without an answer this was 10 years ago and now the position is nearly matched with the high schools entire budget…