Rush said today that Chicago’s teachers are already the highest paid in the country. I guess they want combat pay!
Let's be fair. A friend of mine is a teacher and he tells story after story about 5th graders that'll make you want to cry.
A whole lot of these kids are essentially on their own; they're not properly fed, they're not properly dressed and they're seldom remotely clean.
I'm no fan of the NEA and in fact would lay a lion's share of the disaster right at their feet, but the day to day that the actual teachers deal w/ is no walk in the park--especially in big city schools.