Auntie Charo's Soapbox

In defense of Oyaol Ngirairikl, I didn't have the comparative salaries and benefits, but did have the gist of the story.....Clark County needs teachers and we seem to have many.....unhappy teachers that are looking for better feeding grounds and they seem to know that....so they're here with the carrot....
PDN says that there's a $3K higher starting salary and that they're offering a $2K sigh-up salaries and are opening up 10 schools in August. PDN compares salaries at GPSS base at $26.197 with bebbies at $35,197, DODEA at $35,917, not indicating the bennies, Clark Countie reporting a $29,133 base and $40,291 bennies.
So, with the $2K sigh-up fee and the $3k difference in start-up, there's a real good reason to think about leaving the broken school system and go somewhere to earn better money, and I wouldn't blame anyone from doing that, but what would happen to our poor children if that happened?
I see that Senator BJ Cruz wants to give all teachers a $10K increase, perhaps to keep the teachers here....teaching. Unfortunately, he should have introduced this idea/bill earlier on....instead of at this late date. Introducing this now makes it look like a way to buy votes. It also comes at a time when the government has zero dollars. The timing stinks.....I think that the amoung is a bit extreme. I'm sure that raises are due but that they're not necessarily $10K across the board.
Whatever, the teachers need a raise as do our nurses, as do our firemen as do our cops. We can't live without these people. We can give the teaches their raises by cutting the salaries of those who are employed at the central office, we can give the nurses their increases by cutting the salaries of those working in the 'front-Adelup/executive/hospital offices, likewise fire and police officers from their civilian clerks who are found to make more than the officers that are on the streets putting their lives on the line.
We have too many secretaries and PIO people making more money than those who save lives, it's time we reversed salaries.