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To: TimF who wrote (8422)	6/7/2011 12:30:09 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Seems to me it depends on perspective. Some look at how much a teacher gets paid, but I look at how much a teacher costs me. Take your state budget for education, and divide that by the number of teachers in the classroom. I'll almost guarantee that we pay more than $200K per teacher.

To: TimF who wrote (8422)	6/7/2011 2:47:04 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13056

A better way to go would be to reward good teachers with high pay, fire the worst teachers, and inject more competition in to the system, rather than having most K-12 education be from a socialized monopoly, that gives poor people little choice as to where and how their kids will be educated. Yes I think the best teachers should make a LOT more. As to changing it from a "socialized monopoly", good luck. No country in the world has a predominant voucher system, for good reason.