Capt. Al Haynes sorta OT.

Matthew S. Whiting wrote:
Newps wrote:

A year ago December the teachers in our district went on strike for
better pay and benefits. The conventional wisdom is that your typical
public school teacher is lucky to make $30K after many hard years of
teaching. Since teachers salaries are a matter of public record a
full page ad was taken out in the Sunday paper the first weekend of
the strike. Every teacher in the school district was listed, by name,
and how much they made for that current school year. Turns out the
average teacher salary is $41.5 here with 25-30% of the teachers
making more than $50K per year. Starting pay was mid $20's. You
could literally see the support for the teachers evaporate on that
Sunday. A settlement was reached shortly there after. A teacher
strike will not ever happen here again.


Did the teachers then post the salaries of the administration personnel?
That would be very eye opening...

That was also in the ad however it wasn't relavant because people
weren't complaing about the number of administrators or their pay,
before or after the ad.



Even the salaries you list above are way below the average in my area
for jobs that require a master's degree.

That depends where you live obviously. What was finally driven home to
a lot of people was the fact that simply by spending more dollars does
not make education better.