[MNJohnnie]

Not bad for a 9 month work year

[9999lakes]

Just one word -- VOUCHERS -- the panacea that would solve every single educational problem the US faces.

[SouthCarolinaKit]

Not bad when they've proven to be more incompetent year after year! If I had school-aged kids, I'd consider it child-abuse to send them to public schools; I'd quit my job (senior computer planner) and home school them. Anyone with a logical braid could teach more in 1/2 / day than they do in a month!
Their biggest drawback is that they care NOTHING about anything but their salaries!

[luckystarmom]

Where is it a 9 month work year??? The teachers in California start in mid August, and end the school year in mid-June.

Lots of school districts also require the teachers to take courses during the summer, so that means they are working all year long.

[FrankR]

"Not bad for a 9 month work year "

Don't forget all the holidays during the year. The really bad part is, we're paying these people to turn our children into godless, America-haters.