[billhilly]

Reading comprehension is not your long suit, is it? The conclusion one could take from this analysis is that teacher pay is excessive; hardly an argument for "stealing more tax dollars at gun point for the teacher's union..."

[Beck_isright]

Bite moi. The point is that teachers as a national average do not make more than more than many of the professions in the list. This posting is a blatant unionist attempt to win sympathy. The problem is those senior members in the teacher's unions earn absurd salaries at the expense of the teachers. For example, the administrative staff in Broward County, FL who were able to spend taxpayer dollars for $2,000 per night suitesin Las Vegas for some sort of "convention" obviously are overpaid and allowed to abuse the system. But GOD FORBID a taxpayer say something negative about the holy grail of "educators". Please. Get a life and go back to DU.