Home financing ever possible? Probably not!

You only have to discipline the heli and sub parents^^

I think our math teacher is cool. She said she no longer reads or answers emails^^

In the private sector, that would be considered refusal to work

After a personal scolding from parents for no response to an email between 11:30 PM and 7 AM, my wife completely canceled this approach.
Husband of a Berlin MINT grammar school teacher.
By the way, real professionals, meaning teacher parents, never complain about how work is going with their own child.
The child is told that some teachers are different, and you just have to deal with that. That also applies to the child’s further life.

The salaries of civil servants were indeed low in the 80s and 90s. Today, none of them would earn more or take an equivalent job in the private sector.

What exactly is an equivalent job?

50+ hour workweek with team leadership responsibility and frequent weekend work. Very limited ability to schedule oneself. No "work tunnel" at the workplace. Therefore, a home office is indispensable. An official work assignment with very little content. A thousand unofficial necessities that can almost arbitrarily consume time: e.g., organizing the IT management of the schools on the side in their free time by the teachers themselves. No additional salaries or bonuses.

What exactly is equivalent to that?

I was in a better-paid business position. I couldn’t say that I had to work equivalently hard or was demanded in an equivalently diverse way. The difference: I often had to prove my performance. Often, at school, only the students have to do that.

The profession has changed significantly due to staff shortages, the "loser kids" of digitalization at home, and above all the trend toward full-day schooling. Negatively. That’s what older colleagues tell me.

So, as a civil servant, I had direct personnel responsibility for 250 directly subordinate employees, and in a representative capacity for over 1500. Additionally, I had technical responsibility and decision-making authority over the area of 2 districts. What would be an appropriate salary in the private sector for a similar area of responsibility?

In my impression, the ratio of civil servants to employees shifts with the qualification level/career path. In the middle service, you hardly earn more outside for adequate work and personal qualification, whereas in the higher service, it looks very different very quickly.

It is also often omitted that the 70% pension is based on the relatively low gross salaries of civil servants. In discussions about "income," on the other hand, people like to speak of the net amount and conveniently forget things like health insurance, etc.

I may have hinted at it somewhere here before. I was once interested in a career change. But the (missing) salary is the showstopper for me. Even now that Berlin has reinstated civil service. I simply couldn't afford it (regardless of whether I could endure it for more than 5 years)...

It is often overlooked that the 70% pension refers to the relatively low gross salaries of civil servants. In the discussion about "income," people like to talk about net income and conveniently forget things like health insurance, etc.

That was also the compensation that employees in civil servant-equivalent positions used to have: more in retirement, but less net salary. Back then, the pension rate was even higher and, above all, the pension was not taxed. Since that was changed, the pension has been "upgraded." Not because it has become better, but because the alternatives have been worsened. Otherwise, what you say about the higher service and the "equivalent" positions in the private sector is correct. I always smile when people write here that you don't earn that much there... true! It is often significantly more.

I might have hinted at it somewhere here before. I was once interested in a lateral entry. But the (lack of) salary is the showstopper for me. Even now that Berlin is civil service again. I simply couldn’t afford it (regardless of whether I could endure it for more than 5 years)...

And I traded salary for meaning. But I had a prior inclination towards working with young people through club work. I regret nothing.