[pt17]

"There was a time when educators' salaries were pitiful," Callahan said.

Well, that's certainly true. Before I went into IS/computers in the late 60's, I was getting paid in the vicinity of $4000 per year teaching HS math, from freshman algebra to senior calculus. Upon leaving, I immediately tripled my salary and reduced my workday from 12 hours to 9.

And there was a time when high school graduates were educated.

You know, I loved teaching math and my students did well. I never had a student who took the NMSQT and scored an lower than in the top tenth percentile - most were in the 99th percentile (and I didn't teach for the test :-). The combination of low pay, unbelievable administrative ignorance and BS, NEA thuggery and my wife's having twins forced me to leave. For right or for wrong, I've never looked back.

[laredo44]

I immediately tripled my salary and reduced my workday from 12 hours to 9.

What could you possibly have been doing for 12 hours a day?