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Originally posted by baltassoc
You're still pissed that Mrs. Hooper gave you a "C" on your essay on the wit and wisdom of The Fountainhead in 11th grade, aren't you?
$12,500 in benefits? Do you have any idea what your benefits cost your firm? What do they want, good health insurance and some sort of contribution to a retirement account? How dare they!
I have no doubt that there are lazy teachers who are paid too much. I also believe that teachers have made substantial advances in pay over the last decade, at least in the geographic areas where I have acquantences who teach. But it's still not the sweet life you make it out to be. And when you come to a point where you have kids, perhaps you will ask yourself "Am I really comfortable leaving my kid all day with someone who's best option in life was taking a job paying $30k a year?" You better hope that the reason s/he's there is because s/he's independantly wealthy and really likes kids.
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My kids will go to private school because its the easiest guarantee of getting into a solid college. Again, you get what you pay for. Personally, having gone to private and public school, the only difference I ever saw was quality of available drugs (favoring private, of course), but the college market dictates that I must purchase the brats some prestige, so what the fuck. What else am I going to spend on? I hope I won't be drinking and blowing cash on crap by that age...
I'd really prefer to set my kids up with an apprenticeship with a developer in the area and give them the money I'd spend on college, because I think prestige colleges are a scam these days, but selah... that ain't going to happen. I LOVED college and it'd be unfair to rob the kids of the best and only four year party they're ever going to see.
