TEACHERS: Get paid too much

Does anybody besides me get tired of teachers always complaining about how they don’t get paid enough? First of all they should only get 75 percent of the pay they now receive. That’s all they “work.” A good machinist that labors at a machine making products for the medical field or car parts might make $40,000 a year if he is lucky. Reality is closer to $30,000 around here. That’s 8 hours per day, 5 days a week. They don’t get 3 months a year off.

Education in Idaho receives half of the entire budget of the state, and yet we hear the same tired mantra that we don’t get any money. If most of these teachers had to work in the private sector they could not hold a job. If they did, the job would pay half as much as they make now. Take a drive through your local school parking lot and see how many nice cars there are. Now go check out the cars at a machine shop. It’s obvious where their hearts are.

DARRELL JOHNSON

Hayden