[Bob Seger]

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I like your way of thinking, I would bet though you would have the potential of making more money though, through some type of innovation, where I gave up that right. So, do you believe that someone with seven years of college education should make? Who do you want your children to be taught by?

I also would think that you are getting a discounted rate for your child's education, because of the following fact, for one child in a child care unit it is roughly $400 dollars a week, or close to it. That is close to $1,600 a month times that by nine months (an average of one school year) That is 14,400 a year. I am betting that you do not pay that in taxes. Now let us times that by 25 because that is the number of kids I have in my classroom, when I am not on my lunch, $360,000 per class. Not bad, I again like the way you think!

7 years? I dont think that is all required. To enhance your standing, maybe, but not required. What do you think you should make? Did you not know the prevailing wage scale and the benefit package when you went into your field? I would think that anyone smart enough to determine that they can instuct others would be smart enough to know what they are getting into, but that just my opinion. There had to be some reason for choosing your profession. Could it be the relatively good wages based on hours worked? Every weekend off? Every holiday off? A good retirement package? Perhaps it's the 3 months summer vacation, along with the weeks vacation in the fall, the 3 weeks vacation at Christmas and another vacation week in the spring? Perhaps all of the above? I think that Oldschool touched on the days teachers report to their classrooms vs. the average private sector employee.


So are you comparing and justifying the teaching profession as a subsitute for paying a baby sitter? Surely you didn't just imply that? If so, I think you just made "a case in point" statement.


As for making more by being innovative and perhaps making more money doing something on your own, are you also prepared to risk it all to a potential total loss as a possible consequence as well?. It works that way too. Far more often than receiving the windfall version, I might add.

For what it's worth, I dont have a problem with teachers getting what they get right now, I just dont think a tax paying community should be subjected to walkout and strike tactics. Again, just my opinion. I stress again, to try it in the other world, and see how that world is living right now. The ones paying your wages are conceeding every where they turn around. Do state and federal employees receive a special gift from God that they are exempt from the trials, challanges and consessions than those that are footing the bill ?