[glory]

You can defend yourself all you want--NO TEACHER is worth 50K a year, well maybe a few, but they are tried and true and have proven their worth.

As for pay and not wanted underpaid teachers to teach your children--well fine, you dig deeper in your pocket and pay your teacher what you think he or she is worth, stop robbing and taking from my children to do it. I must make the point though that you are wrong. Some of the very best teachers I ever had were when teachers were only making 19k a year. They were marvelous and had a passion for children that I am hard pressed to find in most modern day teachers. The people who were interested in making a buck were free to pass up the profession and move on to more lucrative deals. Now I fear that many teachers put up with kids just because the deal is lucrative and that is NOT what I want for my kids.

[Amelia]

Some of the very best teachers I ever had were when teachers were only making 19k a year.

You could buy a brand new car then for about $5000, too, right?

[ReagansShinyHair]

"You can defend yourself all you want--NO TEACHER is worth 50K a year, well maybe a few, but they are tried and true and have proven their worth."


I don't make anywhere close to $50k. Average teacher pay in my area is $34k, average housing cost is $320,000. So evidently, I am expected to share a trailer with another family so that I can make ends meet.


"As for pay and not wanted underpaid teachers to teach your children--well fine, you dig deeper in your pocket and pay your teacher what you think he or she is worth, stop robbing and taking from my children to do it."


You really have no idea how much of education monies goes to maintain and inflate a bloated beaucracy, do you?


"Some of the very best teachers I ever had were when teachers were only making 19k a year. They were marvelous and had a passion for children that I am hard pressed to find in most modern day teachers. The people who were interested in making a buck were free to pass up the profession and move on to more lucrative deals."


So, you know most modern day teachers, do you? That's quite a thick phone book you must have. That's funny, because I don't know most teachers, but most of the teachers that I DO know love kids and love teaching. I know a few who are losers and should be fired.