Posted on 04/28/2005 5:10:55 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Teacher Jolene Cortez tried making ends meet on her $30,841-a-year salary. Cortez, 33, of 3660 Orchard Ave., was charged this week with possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver. Police allegedly found two ounces of meth, a scale, drug records and $2,775 in cash when searching Cortez's apartment, garage and vehicle.
Police said the second-grade teacher at Omaha's Conestoga Magnet Center told them she was selling the meth for extra money.
"It's hard to make it on the salary that they gave us," Cortez said. "I don't want to live lavishly, but I would like, if my son needs a haircut, to be able to get a haircut for him.
"I needed a little bit of help."
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Cry me a river. If you can't make a living on your current salary, then you have two options:
$30G for 10 months of work???? That ain't shabby.
Where's the father?
At least she wasn't sleeping with one of her students.
that would be 8 months ayear, with full bennys and a very lucrative retirement plan
I know $30,000 isn't what it used to be- but surely a single mom and young child can live on that? With child support, unless there's a non-existent father out there..
The victim staus is so chic these days, isn't it?
Around here, school starts in late Aug and ends in early June.
Where's papa?
I've seen people earning six figures who are in debt and struggling...it depends on your lifestyle and whether or not you can support it. Maybe this lady needs to cut back on a few things.
How about a second job?
Cell phone, cable, either higher rent for a house, eating out often, etc.
I know people with no college education making that much just doing mindless data entry.
Also, I feel that it's not too much to ask to pay our teachers well, after all they are responsible for the minds of some of our children.
With that said, I also believe that there should be no tenure for teachers.
This is crazy--her concern is to be able to get her son a haircut when he needs it. She doesn't seem to be concerned that her son is being raised by a criminal, though. What a role model she is for that son--and her second grade students.
Single dad, sole custody of his 12 year old daughter, making it on $27,000 a year. No child support, thanks to a dead-beat mom (she's only $7,800 in the hole). However, I'm a drug dealer for a living (I work for a pharmacy benefits manager that runs a mail order pharmacy).
"There are some things that happen that shouldn't be happening," she said. "People are human."
Cortez doesn't know whether she'll seek another job while she is suspended with pay from Conestoga.
Right now, she is focused on keeping her son sheltered from the accusations.
"I'm not a bad person," she said. "I'm not what they're portraying me to be."
I think $30k for 10 months work is pretty darn good money.
I think it depends on where you're at. Here, that's nothing.
So she decides to supplement her income with a little blood money. Methamphetamine is a vicious drug that can break a person down. What excellent judgement by someone entrusted to teach young children.
She is so interested in caring for her son that she engaged in behavior that ensured he'll now be raised by someone else. Now, when she gets out of prison, I'm guessing she won't even be able to get a job making near as much as she had already been making. Dumb bunny.
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