Yes, it was a similar thing I saw for teachers in NY. The family member and his wife both teach at the same school. She only started a few years ago around age 26 or so and in 2009 she made $60K, maternity leave cut her 2010 salary to $38K. They did both go to college though. There was some superintendent in NY state listed at $485,000, total insanity there!!!
It’s just galling to see that kind of pay for fairly new teachers, when someone like my husband had to work 21 yrs. to make that much. His medical coverage was based on how many hours he worked per year, don’t work enough hours, oh well! The constant lie that they’re all underpaid is so insulting to the intelligence, as though the truth is an unknown.
Well, our governor certainly let the cat out of the bag, so the lie should just die a quick death at this point. He talked about the millions in retirement benefits for them as well; when a teacher complained at one of his public forums (after understating her income, which people were able to verify), he simply said, “You don’t have to do this for a living”. She shut up...
The teachers’ unions fought his election already; he’s not exactly making a new enemy.