Reply #70: Teachers (among other 'lowly public servents') need to be paid MORE than

[Stinky The Clown]

the non-contributors (I'm thinking here of the worst of the worst ... the 'personalities' of every stripe that suck the air - and money - from the environment they happen to inhabit.) I know that won't happen, but they deserve every penny they get ... and then some.

Its sad when, as a society, we think so little of our teachers (and fire and police and medics, etc.) that we don't even pay them enough to live where they work.