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To: Grut
$28,357 really does not seem like a wage someone could live on in Hawaii.

Sure doesn't. When my wife was looking to get hired on somewhere, the folks from Hawaii were at every single event and job fair she went to. Everyone always came over to their booth and looked - wow, Hawaii! - but after seeing what they were offering, just about everyone realized that the salary levels were such that the only way it was affordable was if you lived in a refrigerator carton under a bridge and ate cat food.

12 posted on 04/28/2005 12:52:24 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: general_re

That's the case for averaging out the salaries. The problem is attracting new teachers and keeping them beyond the first years. But a person who's already been there for twenty years is not likely to be going elsewhere -- yet those are the very ones whose pay is being boosted, to the detriment of those we really need -- those fresh, idealistic people with a passion for teaching. And not only those who are looking towards retirement so they can collect a pension as well as be rehired back at their old jobs -- for double pay! That's the new gambit in civil service.


17 posted on 04/28/2005 1:08:51 PM PDT by MikeHu
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