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To: tejek who wrote (195725)	7/24/2004 8:01:06 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572630

Ted, With an average salary of 55K, how can any teacher in OC afford a house with the median price approaching $400K? Move to Riverside County? ;-) Anyway, $55K is a state figure, not necessarily the O.C. You'd figure that Orange County would pay their teachers more simply because of increased cost-of-living, but I don't know for sure whether that's the case. Back to your question, "How can any teacher in OC afford a house with the median price approaching $400K?" I think a better question would be, "How can ANYONE in OC afford a house?" The answer is dual-income, which I see a LOT of around here. Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (195725)	7/24/2004 8:10:32 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572630

Ted, This teacher conversation reminds of an elementary teacher I knew in Chicago many years ago. She taught in a really, really dangerous school on the south side. She had to be escorted to and from her car, kids in class with knives, didn't get paid squat, all the stories you hear. But she loved it, she couldn't imagine doing anything else. I was amazed that ANYONE would do that. I think there are a group of folks that just want to teach kids, regardless of the compensation. And then there are probably a bunch of people that would like to teach, but won't because of the compensation. If we paid teachers what their qualifications are worth in the private sector, we would probably get more competition by including that second group; and subsequently a more quality end product. But what do I know, I don't have kids. I just pay for other people's kids with my property taxes. If anybody is unhappy with their kids public school education, and want's to send me a refund, send me a PM. <Also, for those that rail against school cost, isn't it primarily a local issue wrt property taxes? You can fight that on a local level, and make your local schools inferior, right? I admit I don't know a lot about the issue>. John