You couldn’t do that with the $39,000 starter salary you made at the beginning of your career — and with $67,000 being the most you could make after working 25 years as a teacher, you won’t even be able to do it then!
I should know — even when I went from being a teacher to a middle school principal, I was trying to budget my way to freedom. And when I wasn’t trying to make $1 out of 15 cents, I was doing what we all do when we’re told “There’s no money left in the budget”.
Buying arts and crafts for the kids with our own money. Making pizza parties stretch until the kids are left with a slice so small it’s practically a sliver.
Ain’t that a tragic metaphor for what we educators have to settle for?