Teacher steals $20, forced to quit her $94,996 career?!?

[tricky_ab]

A Connecticut woman quit her teaching job that paid $94,996 just after she was caught in a police sting stealing $20 from another teacher’s purse, according to authorities.

Susan Dinnean, 55, of Redding, Conn., told police she planned to return the money....
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I guess crime doesn't pay:nono:

[implayaz9]

jesus.
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[DALAZ_68]

omfg r u serious...lol

[duffman1278]

You can never make enough money.

[Future240]

When the hell did teachers start getting paid that much?

[HyperTek]

When the hell did teachers start getting paid that much?

esp a middle school teacher too

times is hard now a days even upper class teachers are feeling it lol

[RiversideS13]

good job, she get paid too much for a middle school teacher and she steal coworker's money. that is not cool

[Bubbles]

I'm not sure a person who would risk nearly 100 grand for less than a year's work at a cush job to gain 20 bucks is fit to be teaching anybody anything.

[sleep]

Tenured teachers can make up to $120k

She had been a teacher for 22 years.......

[g6civcx]

Middlebrook Middle School, in Wilton, got a math lesson in basic subtraction after teacher reported two $50 bills were stolen from her wallet in mid-October, reports the Stamford Advocate.

Less than a week later, on Oct. 21, the same teacher called police to report that another $70 was gone from her purse.

Did she steal the $120 as well? If so, that seems to be more than just $20.

[240sxChillen]

95k? Damn i remember in Elementary asking my teachers how much they made and they said "Not A lot" Fuckin lies.

[JRex]

I think it's time to become a teacher. dang

[FRpilot]

Tenured teachers can make up to $120k

She had been a teacher for 22 years.......

i thought tenured college professors with PhD or whatever credentials they hold make $100K/year and every other teacher in elementary, middle, hs, even junior college are the ones not making good salaries.

[I LUV MY S13]

When the hell did teachers start getting paid that much?

first thing that i thought:squint:

[tricky_ab]

"Police and the school principal confronted Dinnean, and she allegedly admitted taking money from other teachers and even from the principal’s purse.

Her 22-year career as a teacher ended Monday. She was arrested Tuesday on three counts of larceny and posted a $2,500 bond."


It's almost unbelievable that someone would do this! Oh I had asked my friend's dad (Who is a school administrator) how she could be making so much money. He explained:

Most schools increase your pay by a certain percentage for every year you stay with them. For instance at my father's school, every year a teacher stays with them, they get a 3% raise. So for instance if someone starts out at 30K a year, after ten years they would be making 40K. And thats not counting other kinds of raises they may receive over the years (for instance a much larger raise at 5 and 10 years).

[ryguy]

lol serves the woman right, if it was her that was stealing the whole time.

I think we could really fix some of these state budget situations if we quit paying these teachers this much. No teacher ever deserves to make more than 60k a year, teaching has got to be the easiest friggin job, you dont have to do anything but grade papers. Pretty much anything 6th grade and lower requires no skill whatsoever besides persistence.

i thought tenured college professors with PhD or whatever credentials they hold make $100K/year and every other teacher in elementary, middle, hs, even junior college are the ones not making good salaries.

College professors salaries vary wildly. English/liberal arts teachers don't make much, but business/finance teachers make a hell of a lot of money, easily over 100k a year. They have to pay the professors something comparable to what they can make in the public sector. Plus, they're teaching things that are actually difficult. One of my business professors drives a newer 911 turbo.

[Pactin]

teaching has got to be the easiest friggin job, you dont have to do anything but grade papers. Pretty much anything 6th grade and lower requires no skill whatsoever besides persistence.

wow

msglength

[Kouki_Love]

omh.. what a dumb B%$^!!!!

[TheWolf]

unions.... where a theiving elementary school teacher can't get enough just by working over the school board... must work over other teachers...

[Future240]

Originally Posted by ryguy
teaching has got to be the easiest friggin job, you dont have to do anything but grade papers. Pretty much anything 6th grade and lower requires no skill whatsoever besides persistence.


This has got to be the dumbest statement in this thread. You didn't have to do anything but make a solid addition to the thread. Pretty much seems like you are a complete dumbass since quality posting requires nothing but intelligence.

[ryguy]

This has got to be the dumbest statement in this thread. You didn't have to do anything but make a solid addition to the thread. Pretty much seems like you are a complete dumbass since quality posting requires nothing but intelligence.

Please, enlighten me on the hardest points of elementary school teaching, aside from dealing with the kids. Other than that, you are teaching things you yourself learned in elementary school. The kids arent even assholes yet until 7th grade.

[kingkilburn]

Teaching effectively is very difficult. Just because you understand a subject doesn't mean you can convey that information to others, especially children. It's the asshole teachers like you that make school impossible to enjoy.

[ryguy]

Zilvia, I apologize for my absolute idiocy.
My first post was totally ridiculous. I was talking about careers/professions, jobs that require a bachelors degree. Of course I don't think teaching is easier than delivering pizzas or being a photographer or something. I just think teaching is easier than being a lawyer, working in finance, or engineering things.

[ronmcdon]

Being a 'good' elementary school teacher isn't easy at all.
You have to be able to teach the academic material well,
& effectively discipline the kids in an effective manner.
You have to be pretty much a therapist and have rediculous amounts of patience to deal with those kids.
You are with your class pretty much the whole day of the class.
You might have to spend a lot of afterschool hrs working with kids.

Of course, there are lots of 'bad' teachers who do more harm than good.
maybe protected by poor school admin with no quality control and/or unions.

I studied some elementary school teaching,
and spent some 50 hrs in different classrooms.
It's really the type of work you have to have some passion for.
imo, the work and training aren't worth the current pay.
Not all elementary teachers make bank.
The median income is around 37k.

90-something grand a year isn't peanuts,
but it certainly isn't a huge amount for some career you've worked 22 yrs in.
(at least not in this day & age).

I don't think you can compare teaching to engineering & law,
any more than you can compare law to engineering.
It's a totally different discipline
pay among the disciplines might have a good deal of descrepancy as well.

[!Zar!]

Zilvia, I apologize for my absolute idiocy.
My first post was totally ridiculous. I was talking about careers/professions, jobs that require a bachelors degree. Of course I don't think teaching is easier than delivering pizzas or being a photographer or something. I just think teaching is easier than being a lawyer, working in finance, or engineering things.


How is teaching any different than a lawyer? Both require someone who speaks well. Both require you to gather information the best you can and explain it in a coherent way to a group of people.

I know many people who are being educated in child development and classes of that nature. Trying to keep people interested in what you are teaching and how to convey your meaning is far from easy. I have taken a quantum reasoning and deduction class. It focused heavily on this. It is much harder than you would think.

As for the teacher who was fired, she just happened to get caught. Who knows how long she had been stealing from other teacher and what other unethical things she as doing. Doing that was dumb on her part. Might have only been $20 or whatever, but it doesn't mean she should be let go. Kind of like people who get caught from stealing a candy bar or something from a store then end up getting in trouble with the police. Wrong is wrong.

[Matej]

Despite all the negative response, I kind of agree with ryguy.

Of course there are great teachers who really enjoy teaching, always go the extra mile, take pride and joy in their subject of expertise, and you can tell who those teachers are, and I would like to thank them.

However, there are a lot of teachers who only do the bare minimum that they are required to do. Teaching is a job after all, and with any job, there are a few achievers who strive to be great, but most of the employees just come in the morning, do their work, and can't wait to get out in the afternoon. I am speaking about all levels of education here, from preschool to university. And the bare minimum really is not that bad. You have to know coursework for one year/semester, and every year/semester you teach the same thing. And if the students are expected to learn it, then it definitely should be no problem for you.

Of course many say the real challenge is dealing with the students and a bunch of psychological blah blah blah.
If you can go a few months without submitting to your urge to kill someone, and if you are able to tell students to be quiet a few times a day, then you can get by.
Keep in mind, I am not talking about being a great role model here, or that I approve of this, I am just saying that it really is not that hard if you are just doing the bare minimum. And unfortunately that is how a lot of teachers are.

And best of all, you get pretty much the same breaks as the students. Paid summer break.

However, I think teachers deserve the money they make much more than any football player or millionaire pro athlete.

[keistyle]

this just sounds funny.

"....after she was caught in a police sting stealing $20..."

[tricky_ab]

this just sounds funny.

"....after she was caught in a police sting stealing $20..."

Well it should as that is their tax dollars hard at work!

[edspecR]

i cant believe some of you guys. what are you? still in elementary hating on your teacher because she caught you spitting on another dude's shoes in the playground? "we pay teachers too much" come on, really? you obviously are a reason why we DONT pay teachers enough, failures of intelligence right there.

[ranger240]

i was in redding thursday. that town is about as exciting as watching the movie Fargo. picture some huge hills, some woods, old stone walls in those woods, a few old churches, and a nice old huge house every so often.

that is redding ct.

she probably started stealing for the thrill of it. there is definitely no other way to get one in that town.

[Devil Man]

in all honesty i dont think teachers get paid enough.

none the less this woman in this story should not have been doing what she did and needed to go!

[fckillerbee]

haha and family guy goes through my mind...lol.

imo teachers are more important than most careers in the world. they are the developement of our children. They create the foundation for our lives in the future. It is teachers that will encourage to be doctors, and pilots, and police officers.

This lady obviosly was doing it for the thrill. House always wins. lol

[WanganRunner]

Teacher salaries, like cop salaries or politician's salaries, depend entirely on the jurisdiction wherein they work.

In my county, all of the above make pretty good money. In some other county, maybe not so much.

Affluent counties/cities that can get away with charging high property taxes can pay their people more.

[azndoc]

Teachers make good money.

We've been lied to our whole lives.

[zenki.life]

Teachers make good money.

We've been lied to our whole lives.

i know right