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I for one am sick and tired of hearing about the underpaid teachers. No one snuck up and changed the pay scale when they started teaching. They knew the pay when they signed on. If they had wanted more pay they could have taken chemistry, biology, or calculus in college instead of those mind numbing time wasting education courses.

My wife suffered through those courses so she could teach because she loved to teach. She knew her pay wouldn't buy us a new Lexus every year. She just loved teaching and young people.

And paying paper pushing administrators, counselors and assorted flunkies those inflated salaries is just plain stupid. I'm never voting for a school bond issue again.

My wife is a teacher who chooses to teach for less at private schools just so she doesn't have to deal with the TEA... She doesn't complain (much) that she makes far less than public school teachers who have less education than her.

..and to be blunt, even at the current pay rate, teacher's salaries are very competitive with similar work in the corporate world, except, the corporate world doesn't get 3 months off in the summer.