Reply #5: My family would be incredibly wealthy if this were the case

[Marrah_G]

My father, an aunt and an uncle all worked for apx 45 years at a public schools in a wealthy Boston suburb.....Oh yeah.... we would be very well off. Even my mother was a substitute teacher when I was in elementary school.

Instead my mom worked part time, we shopped at discount and thrift stores, they made good investments and worked very,very hard to be able to retire comfortably.

Teaching was never a 5 day a week, 5 hour a day job. It was afternoons, weekends, summers. It was coaching, tutoring, class trips....

I don't have one memory of a holiday as a child that my aunt was not grading papers while whatever sports game was on the tube.

My father put everything he had into the kids he taught and he loved every second of it... up until the end when the standardized testing crap started.