Your Aug. 22 front page story on teachers getting almost a 13 percent raise in Woodland can only be disheartening for the rest of us who must come up with more taxes to pay the unholy increase that will now be demanded by every other district in the state.
Where will the money come from?
It is a published fact that the current average salary of a Washington public teacher is over $55,000 a year for less than 180 days of classroom time. Will raising it to over $60,000 offer a better education to a student? It will fuel demands for another such increase next year. America doesn’t take public education serious. If it did we would have a minimum 200-day school year with six or more class periods each day.
America ranks at or near the bottom when compared with other modern countries in math and science and language skills.
The effort to compete just isn’t there. There should be push back against teacher unions which would make the old Teamster union blush with envy. Teachers who strike should be terminated from their jobs. Washington, with its high taxation, is on the path of following California and New York — watching their people flee for other parts of the country. It’s time to say a loud no to the greed of teachers and their unions.
