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To: SilentZ who wrote (244514)	8/2/2005 10:55:29 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572036

>Engineers, lawyers, secretaries, salespeople, plumbers don't get tenure, why should 6th grade teachers? Compare the salaries of the above occupations to those of teachers. Busboys, McDonalds managers, call center employees, the guys who clean your clubs at the golf course, the person who drives a minivan with ten people to the airport, loads of poorly paid people don't get tenure. Are you saying teachers should get tenure because they make less than engineers? I don't even see what salary has to do with it. Teachers pay is low because the supply of teachers is extremely high. Its a very rewarding job, so lots of people try to do it. What does teacher pay have to do with tenure?

To: SilentZ who wrote (244514)	8/2/2005 11:54:36 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572036

Z, Compare the salaries of the above occupations to those of teachers. Like I said before, here in California a teacher makes $50K a year, which isn't bad considering he or she gets the summer off as well. Yet California schools continue to lag behind. Throwing more money at the problem will only increase the bureaucracies and the unions. Arnold is promoting a measure that changes things, yet he's receiving a powerful backlash from the teachers' unions because, quite simply, the unions are more interested in benefits than in providing quality of service. (And if you think about it, that's all the unions can promise.) Tenchusatsu