And they'll pay it back with interest.
Outrage at Headteacher's £200k pay package
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And they'll pay it back with interest.
Isn't this typical BBC reporting. Headteacher earns 200k. After tax thats around 120k, so straight off the bat 80k is going back to the government coffers.
Now i dont know how much this headteacher has done compared to other headteachers, but one thing is that this isnt 200k for just being a primary school headteacher for 1 year. There is backdated pay, overtime pay etc. But what about the value back to the community that he is providing (i know this is highly debatable) but a headteacher can make a significant contribution to the wider community by helping children, especially at a primary school level.
Do i think he's worth 200k ? well i havent done enough digging to see what he has exactly achieved and what that deserves, but a salary of 200k doesn't seem overly excessive. If he has achieved something extraordinary which is an example to all headteachers, then maybe a salary of '200k' is a very good incentive for all headteachers and those that aspire to work in the educational industry.
Now i dont know how much this headteacher has done compared to other headteachers, but one thing is that this isnt 200k for just being a primary school headteacher for 1 year. There is backdated pay, overtime pay etc. But what about the value back to the community that he is providing (i know this is highly debatable) but a headteacher can make a significant contribution to the wider community by helping children, especially at a primary school level.
Do i think he's worth 200k ? well i havent done enough digging to see what he has exactly achieved and what that deserves, but a salary of 200k doesn't seem overly excessive. If he has achieved something extraordinary which is an example to all headteachers, then maybe a salary of '200k' is a very good incentive for all headteachers and those that aspire to work in the educational industry.
Simple jealousy. Teachers are vastly underpaid for an essential role that they serve in society. As a generalisation if teachers were paid better you would attract better qualified teachers. Simples.
People justify the fact that teachers deserve "poor" pay because they "work less" no they don't. My partner is a teacher. I earn double what she does and then some and whilst I put in 50-55 hours a week at work she works equally as many if not more hours than me every week and so what if a lot of that is done at home.
Teachers have a hard time of it and I don't envy her. She wants to leave the profession as do many of her colleagues (from what she tells me) due to the poor deal they get.
But it would have been much cheaper and more efficient to not have collected that money, redistributed it, and collected it again, so that point is moot.
Except then you wouldn't be able to justify the jobs of the collectors, redistributors and re-collectors
so out of interst does anyone know how much the back pay was?
i keep seeing this 200k figure banded about perhaps he has been underpaid for the last 5/6 years and the bulk of that 200k is backpayments, the 200k figure is just sensasionalist headling grabbing crap.
would there be as much outrage if the headline was head teacher gets paid 83k + overtime and backdated payments? no and fwiw without living beside the school or having pupils at the school you cant say whether he's worth it or not.
i keep seeing this 200k figure banded about perhaps he has been underpaid for the last 5/6 years and the bulk of that 200k is backpayments, the 200k figure is just sensasionalist headling grabbing crap.
would there be as much outrage if the headline was head teacher gets paid 83k + overtime and backdated payments? no and fwiw without living beside the school or having pupils at the school you cant say whether he's worth it or not.
just found it 51k in backdated pay and another 20k in overtime
not so sensational is it?
head teacher paid 83k salary plus 20k in overtime, also given 51k of money he is owed for previous work plus a bit of a bonus on top for doing a cracking job
not so sensational is it?
head teacher paid 83k salary plus 20k in overtime, also given 51k of money he is owed for previous work plus a bit of a bonus on top for doing a cracking job
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its about supply and demand, people pay billions to watch football and buy team kit's, etc.
schools are funded by tax, so they have to run a tight ship, therefore i think £200k is excessive for a head teacher, especially when the money should be going towards the children's education, not so the teacher can buy a new house, car and a few holidays.