Red and Rover by Brian Basset for May 04, 2012

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    comicgos  almost 12 years ago

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

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    Catfeet Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    You might consider payola, Red!

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    rogebr  almost 12 years ago

    It works with cows and cheese.

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    Totalloser Premium Member almost 12 years ago

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

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    GROG Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    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.

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    woltmanns  almost 12 years ago

    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!

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    GoodDoctor  almost 12 years ago

    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.

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    hippogriff  almost 12 years ago

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

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    scottie4851 Premium Member almost 12 years ago

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

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    Big_Tex  almost 12 years ago

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

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