It’s fairly common knowledge that most teachers at public schools don’t make a lot of money. Teachers don’t become teachers because they have a desire to get rich. Instead, they do it for the love of teaching.
While it’s easy to say that teachers don’t make a lot of money, it gets a little more real when you see an example of a real teacher’s salary on paper. Many people were surprised just how little teachers actually make after one teacher shared her salary.
Elisabeth Milich teachers 2nd grade at Whispering Wind Academy in Arizona. In 2018, she received a raise, and the raise was so small, that she felt frustrated.