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Can we drop this phony argument of tax payer money vs private money please? Did anyone take economics? Money or capital moves from private to public hands and back again in a circular flow.. QP you’re a taxpayer so you pay my salery.. well true but last i checked teachers were tax payers too and I also believe that teachers use this money to then purchase goods and services from private companies so whatever company you work for some of your money came from teachers.. It also probably came from government grants if you do research ect.. My point is there really no such thing as public and private money it flows around and around and we’re all paying eachother.

Wait QP, you really think we lobby for policies that line our pockets at the expense of kids? Do you know who we go into and work with everyday? We lobby for policies that allow us to maximize our potential as educators of children, and what many who are not in the field fail to recognize is the amount of work and stress our job truly is. Anyone who has not spent a year in the classroom has no ability to comprehend how many hours a week the average teacher truly puts in- both in and out of the classroom. A decent part of my salary is put back into my students in classroom materials the budget cuts have taken away year after year. As to your other point, about us lobbying the government for the protection of salaries and benefits, the government IS our employer, much like you would go to your boss, we are required to deal with the often inept politicians in the government to guarantee our job safety and salary. We provide a public service through the government, one that it seems your avail yourself of for your own children? I suppose I do not understand your bitterness towards those that are in the classroom with your children on a daily basis. I have not read all your posts, but you seem to harbor a grudge against teachers. Is there a reason for this?

Must have been the teachers fault that QP doesn’t know her stuff. Still waiting for an answer from yesterday about paid vacation days.