You said: “If you walked into a court room for a case on fraud with a single piece of paper to support your claim, they’d throw your case out.”

Really? How do you draw that conclusion? How could you know if one piece of paper is or is not enough to support an allegation of fraud? In my experience, a piece of paper can be enough to prove fraud. Yes, one piece of paper.

You are really out of your league here with your criticisms. You have no basis whatsoever for claiming I’m not making a “just” or “sound” opinion. In fact, my opinions are backed in general by years of experience and research, as well as the ability to understand and analyze issues.

Should you like to comment again on this blog, please bring some actual facts or substance.

As far as other supporting articles, I haven’t another single article cited by you on any of your other posts addressing teacher pay. This post is about teacher salary. It’s the only post you’ve made about it and the article you cited is the only information you used. You call me ignorant yet you can’t answer any of my questions or even follow what I post. I have read your other posts and they have nothing to do with this issue. Most of your posts involve you ranting over some issue while you call people idiots and stupid. Many times, like this post, you find one single article to support what you’re talking about. Many of your sources don’t exist anymore. You keep talking as though you are completely informed on this subject yet most of your posts are simply an opinion you toss out and rave on about. If you walked into a court room for a case on fraud with a single piece of paper to support your claim, they’d throw your case out.

I’m sorry, but you rant and rave about the educational system where you are at and how horrible and bad the teachers, administration, and other people are. They might be. But you lack anything that actually helps people understand the problem or even any suggestions on how to fix it. Most of your supporting information is shallow or non-existant. I can understand being angry with a school district. But don’t claim things as fact about a whole profession. Don’t look at things through such a narrow view. You clearly aren’t finding all the information to make a just and sound opinion. I think you’ve already made up your mind about education, teachers, and schools. Now you’re just trying to find information to support your opinion.

This entire discussion is based off one single piece of information.
How can any opinion be formed on something when there has only been a single clue presented. What I cited was not research, it was another opinion. An opinion like yours. But they used more than one source to base it off of. My point is not the relevence of the article you cited. My point is how you and others are making an entire one sided opinion on something without looking beyond one single source.

I don’t see an education degree or listed employment in any school on your “About Tracy” page. You must have accidentally left that out.

And not that it matters… But I’ve been teaching for the last 9 years, so I think I’ve got a fairly good grasp on what the job entails.

http://encarta.msn.com/column_teacherpaymain_tamimhome/are_teachers_overpaid.html

He didn’t just look at one thing. He actually collected evidence from several different areas and constructed an opinion based on it.

So far, most of the people here have done nothing but run around yelling “Look! I have the proof I’m right!! It’s all right here!” At the same time you ignore anything else out there that might suggest something different.

I’m pretty sure not a single person who has posted here, saying teachers are overpaid, actually knows what it is to teach. What teachers actually have to do. If I thought the same way I could say accountants have it easy, they just plug numbers into a calculator. Farmers have it easy, they just sit and drive machines around. Doctors have it easy they just look at someone, write down some notes, and charge a fee. Police have it easy, they sit and pull people over all day, not a very tough job. Of course, I’m not that ignorant.

A completely worthless blog post based off a competely unclear view of reality.