u/Baldricks_Turnip

Skilled ES can be the difference between a classroom teacher drowning or keeping their head above water. I want good wages for our respected colleagues.

I do wonder if part of what keeps their wages low (other than just the fact that any line of work manned almost exclusively by women, especially a 'care' job, is always underpaid) is the fear that we would lose teachers who choose to be ES instead.

So my pondering is...how good would ES pay have to be for you to consider the change? I'm a 0.6 primary school teacher in Victoria on 70K. At this point, I could not fathom going to full time and dealing with all the workload that would come with that. If a full time ES got 60-65, I'd consider it.