As I sit here looking across at my neighbor who teaches in the local district and watch him roll out at noon again after a night of having his friends over to party I think back not too many years to when I was just starting out in the world of work.
I never had a job where I only was required to work 180 days out of the year and as my early summers wore on I began to meet many who taught who didn't either. Much like the rest of us who work for a living they found that a teachers salary was just not enough to carry them through the whole year without finding summer work to fill the gap. If you are in your 60's you might also remember a time in America when teachers were not overpaid for their work.
School budgets were in line and districts were able to keep up with maintenance and building without saddling the taxpayer with huge debts in the form of bond issues. I got to know many teachers who worked in the summer, they did lot work at dealerships, seasonal sales, they filled employment gaps all through this country and no one thought the worse of them because they had menial jobs.
Not the guy across the street in 2012, while his school district flounders under a mountain of debt he leads a playboy lifestyle of the rich and famous, getting up at noon staying up late puttering about in the afternoons.
My, My, poor baby, he should take a cruise, at least then I wouldn't have to look at him.
Teachers take note:
Recently cash strapped cities like Scranton have begun to take drastic measures, just think if you were knocked down to Federal Minimum Wage. It's time for concessions, no one is fooled by your Ad Spots about "investing in our teachers", we've been there done that, we are not impressed with the result.
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