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To: LindyBill who wrote (26469)	1/27/2004 6:45:14 AM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793905

Hello LB, Teachers operate on the basis of "if you just paid me more, I would work harder." They never seem to understand that this is nonsense. I just can not sit here an listen to you degrade teachers like this. I'm sitting here at 2:26am listening to my poor, exhausted wife sleeping in her recliner where she collapses and falls to sleep most every night. We rise at 5:30am every morning and she leaves the house at 6:45am to begin her day as a high school chemistry teacher at 7:30am. Each day she teaches 154 chemistry students comprising three College Prep Chem classes and one Advanced Placement Chem class (50 students). She prepares and delivers her lectures, conducts lecture and homework discussions, holds daily office hours during her prep period and lunch hour, prepares lab handouts and lab setups, grades daily homework, prepares/administers/grades quizzes and exams, prepares college recommendation letters for dozens of students. Why justlast week alone I mailed over 30 of them. All this and still, she sponsors the Chemistry Club (the largest club on campus with over 50 members), the Black and Latino Student Union, and three science teams preparing for competition next month. Last week was Finals and I dropped in each day to help her with some photocopying and to help her run several after school practice competitions for the two Marine Science teams and the Science Bowl team. These kids are enthusiastic and sharp! She works them hard but this preparation has paid off with each year's team winning the Regional title in the DOE National Science Bowl almost every year for the past two decades while twice advancing to the Finals in Washington DC, and once winning First Place in the DOE National Science Bowl. Last week she began each day at school at 7am and did not leave the campus until after 9pm -- even 10:45pm two nights running. She rarely has a chance to take a bathroom or lunch break before 2:45pm. She has taught here for 20 years. This high school is a hell of a place to get a good education. The kids win competitions of all types year in and year out. The entire staff is dedicated and hard working. So Bill, it pains me greatly to see you constantly taking cheap shots at these dedicated people -- people, who in my mind, are subsidizing the education of the children in their communities. Perhaps your mother was almost run down by a school bus while pregnant with you, perhaps not, but your hypercritical harping on this issue damages my regard for your opinions in general. --fl