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To: Road Walker who wrote (194893)	7/18/2004 7:06:22 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572702

re: If you were really worried about the quality of the teachers, you would raise their pay. As it is, the quality of teachers are far better than the system deserves. The Republican mantra is that more money attracts better talent in everything except government. In government, the less you pay, the more you get. As ridiculous as that sounds, I think you're right. One of the teachers in whose classroom I spent time has taught for 15 years. She taught English to Japanese aborigines for 2 of those years. She is incredibly talented. I bet her annual salary is roughly $70k (the starting salary is somewhere between $40-50k) in a city where the median price of a house is $295K. And people think they have a right to complain about the quality of our teachers. AS IF, the left has hijacked our schools. lol ted