[festus]

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, public school teachers earned $34.06 per hour in 2005, 36% more than the hourly wage of the average white-collar worker and 11% more than the average professional specialty or technical worker.

As it turns out, the famously successful Detroit schools are at the top of the "bricks without straw" heap:

Metro Detroit leads the nation, paying its public school teachers, on average, $47.28 per hour. That's 61% more than the average white-collar worker in the Detroit area and 36% more than the average professional worker. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009612

Facts really have a way of getting in the way of a good liberal sky is falling rant eh ?

[phillyfanatic]

Of course, any leftist so called Christian organization would hustle the NEA and their pacifist socialist agendas when it comes to a 50 state curriculum. There is no compromise with home schooling, the need for more private schools and charter schools, vouchers, and no compromise with states' righters who want curriculum that is more classical, conservative and American tradition-sided. Barry Lynn does not represent 80 million Evangelicals. Neither does the NEA. And I have been teaching for 45 years; even led tours for the NEA but have resigned my life membership since they actually undermine America on every one of its curriculum agendas.