[Vision2020] Idaho Teachers Among Nation's Lowest Paid

[keely emerinemix]

Thanks, Don -- good to hear from you, and I appreciate your thoughts.  
Frankly, I would find $29,000 tight even if I were single and childless, 
especially if I had to pay off loans.  And the job is important in and of 
itself, not as an augmentation of another wage earner's salary.  Which, I'm 
sure, we can all agree on.

Right?  Can't we?

Or do we persist in thinking that we can "afford" to pay those who work with 
children less because, heck, if they were really worth it, they'd be . . . 
(fill in the blank).

That kind of thinking devalues children as well as teachers, and is a 
significant reason why other malevolent, immoral and destructive things 
often "fill in the blanks" of our kids' lives.

Mercy.

keely emerine mix

From: Don Coombs <mushroom at moscow.com>
Reply-To: mushroom at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Idaho Teachers Among Nation's Lowest Paid
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:16:49 -0700

  Pat Kraut wrote:
>I have lived in Idaho a long time and know the $29 thou would go a long 
>way.
>Especially if its a two income household.

You're coming close to suggesting that teachers' salaries can be low because 
a lot of teachers are women and a lot of women are married to men who have 
fulltime jobs. I thought this particular line of logic went out of fashion 
about 50 years ago.

Notice that I didn't say you actually suggested that.

But doesn't not caring a lot about teachers' salaries suggest that you don't 
care a lot about the children the teachers teach?

Don Coombs


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