District Info
Career Prospect: 
Dead End Job

Calumet County

County Seat: 
Chilton
WCA District: 
East Central

Teachers are truly the nicest, kindest people in the world; generous to a fault looking to improve their students’ lives, often at the expense of their own lives and their families. For these truly wonderful people, accepting a teaching position in a county filled with MAGA cult members is a major culture shock.

We created this website to tell the stories of the many ways that Act 10 upended teachers’ lives and careers since 2011. These are stories that the Mainstream Media Bosses have intentionally ignored. Wisconsin’s Mainstream Media has supported the Republican Dictatorship that has ruled Wisconsin since 2011 through active suppression of reporting on how Act 10 decimated 50 years of improvements in teachers’ lives and working conditions. The Mainstream Media has endorsed many Republican politicians that keep the Wisconsin Republican Dictatorship alive and well.

Teaching and living in this county requires one to be comfortable with being treated as a second class citizen at best, and more likely shunned as a pariah by the majority of your neighbors. Many of your neighbors will be angry Trump-worshipping bullies who are still pissed at teachers for the closing of schools for 2 months at the beginning of the pandemic  Most of your neighbors give 100% support to Republican candidates who have worked to defund public education and punish teachers for making kids wear masks when in-person classes resumed.  

Before the majority of your neighbors in this county joined the Trump cult, they were “Standing With Walker” to smack teachers around from 2011 to 2018. Due to Act 10 wiping out 50 years of improvement in teacher working conditions and employment protections, thousands of teachers in counties across Wisconsin lost their jobs and careers.

Most of your neighbors will be MAGA Republicans who are strong supporters of the Wisconsin Republican Dictatorship that slashed over 4 BILLION dollars in state aid to public schools since 2011-the largest cuts to public schools in America, while giving the largest state tax dollar funding increases in America to private and religious schools that carefully select and retain their students in order to keep the “more costly to educate” (handicapped & disabled) students out.

Wisconsin is the only state in America without tenure or collective bargaining protections keeping teachers from being unjustly terminated or non-renewed. Since 2011, hundreds of teachers in Republican controlled Wisconsin counties have been non-renewed or terminated as retribution for signing a petition to recall Governor Walker, or making a Facebook post or posting a lawn sign supporting a Democratic candidate. 

Before you accept one of the thousands of open teaching positions in Wisconsin, we hope that you will give careful consideration to leaving Wisconsin for numerous other places in America(like our neighbors in Minnesota & Illinois) that appreciate and welcome high quality teachers to become productive residents of their state and boost their states’ economies far ahead of Wisconsin’s stagnant economic growth since Act 10 was imposed in 2011 by the Republican Dictatorship that still rules Wisconsin.

Since 2011, thousands of great teachers and administrators have enjoyed significant career advancement by leaving Wisconsin. We think that you will too.

Political Environment
2016 Election: 
58% Trump
2018 Election: 
60% Walker
2020 Election: 
59% Trump
COVID Rate: 
53% Fully Vaccinated
Money Stolen From This District's Taxpayers to Fund School Vouchers Across Wisconsin
Latest Available Data: 2022-23 School Year: 
$257,462
The Republican Dictatorship that rules 'Wisconsin has underfunded public schools since 2011 while giving the largest funding increases in America to private & parochial voucher schools.
Average Teacher Salaries
2010-2011 Average Salary: 
$48,766
2022-23 Projected Salary at 26.3% Inflation Rate: 
$61,591
2022-23 Average Salary: 
$56,970
Average Teacher Salary Performance
WERC Inflation Rate Since July 2011 : 
26.3
Real Salary Change: 
16.8%
2022-23 Purchasing Power Change : 
$-4,621

In this heavily MAGA Republican voting county, we rank the career potential of this district to be a Dead End job due to the below inflation 16.8% increase in Average Teacher salaries since 2011. 

 

 

Estimated Average Teacher Income Loss Since 2011 From Act 10
$91,631

The Republican Dictatorship that has Ruled Wisconsin Since 2011 has underfunded public schools by over 4 Billion dollars in order to provide massive tax cuts to the wealthiest individual taxpayers and big business and manufacturers by severely reducing teacher salaries & benefits.

Superintendent Earnings
2010-2011 Superintendent Salary: 
$114,334
2022-23 Projected Salary at 26.3% Inflation Rate : 
$144,404
2022-23 Superintendent Salary: 
$144,200
Superintendent Salary Performance
WERC Inflation Rate Since July 2011 : 
26.3
Real Salary Change: 
26.1%
2022-23 Purchasing Power Change: 
$-204
Ten Year Teacher Salaries
Median 2020-2021 First Year Teacher Salary: 
$42,217
Projected Ten Year Salary in 2020-21: 
$53,320
Ten Year Teacher Salary Performance
10 Year WERC Inflation Rate: 
26.3
Real Salary Change : 
0.0%
Real Purchasing Power Change*: 
$0

 

Teach in this District?

Sick of watching your School Board give big raises to the Superintendent while teachers get scraps?

This year, send a message to the School Board that Teachers are as Important as the Superintendent.

 

We hope that you will use the information on our website to find a better district or State to teach in.

 

However:

 

If you plan to return to your current district, HOLD your signed contract until June 12-14 before returning it.            (all Wisconsin contracts due Saturday June 15)

 

Make your district commit to a LARGE raise IF they want your contract returned earlier.

 

If EVERY Wisconsin teacher in Districts like this one united in HOLDING their signed contracts until 3 days before the deadline, we could accomplish better raises for EVERYONE by compressing the time school districts have to recruit and sign teachers to staff schools for SY 2024-25.

 

Stand Together!!!  Rise Together!!!

Just by Following the Rules of the Republican Dictatorship that Controls  Wisconsin.