RALEIGH (March 6, 2025) – Apparently a math teacher knows how to play the odds.
Erin Walsh – who has taught for more than 30 years in Onslow County Schools – won our drawing among teachers who submitted Teachers Talk videos for two tickets to the UNC-Duke basketball game on Saturday.
In her video, Walsh recounts how she retired after 29 years of teaching, sat out six months, then returned to make more money as a part-time math teacher:
“If North Carolina wants to keep recruiting the best and the brightest, the pay scale must change,” she says.
“It is now frozen from year 15 to year 25, meaning your experience, your knowledge, your presence isn’t really valued, in my opinion…. North Carolina can do better.”
Doug Glasgow says
We’ll put by a veteran educator!! I worked for 44 years retiring
in 2006 . l held a variety of public school positions with a master’s degree. I was fortunate to work in a public school setting that had a generous local suppliment and participated in an optional 401-k plan. Those last two benefits are the only things that enabled my wife and I to have a family of 3 and a a modest middle class life style. It’s more than past time for the state legislature to recognize the valuable work educators do for the future residents of North Carolina. The time to reward public school educator is now. They deserve a decent standard of living!! As an aside I’ve continued to work 14 more years as a $15 an hour substitute teacher in a heavily minority system because I felt called to this profession.