Red and Rover by Brian Basset for May 04, 2012

LOL – best reason I’ve heard for a teacher pay raise yet!

You might consider payola, Red!

It works with cows and cheese.

Where I live teachers avg of 85k and 70% make over 100k, so I don’t cry about their pay

We need all the police & firemen we can get. But we can lower the number politicians so there’d be more moeny for teachers.

Still I hope teachers can be as objective as umpires without being nearly as blind.

In Utah, teachers begin at $28k and usually cap out around $57k…pretty pathetic! Raises would be great – take it from politicians, administrators, wherever, but our teachers need the support and our students need well educated teachers who want to be there!

The biggest problem is the number of Administrators it takes today. Why would an elementary school with about 150 students need a principle, 2 vice principals and a secretary for each. These positions are non-teaching. The secretaries make about 35K a year but the principle and the 2 vice principals make at least 90K each. The median teacher’s salary in the district is 45K.

Note this is not an average. An example: if there is 5 people making 20K and one making 100K the average salary would be 60K where the mean would be only 33K. So don’t give me the average, tell me the median.

PRFC: Or coaches, or stadia, or 15 assistant superintendents, or five in charge of standardized test cheating (never know for or against), etc.

Brian, did you expect to engender this kind of political debate with today’s strip? More $$$$$$ for teachers!!!!

Lets also cut some beauracrats and their pay. That might help. Also cut the politicians pay, starting at the Federal level.