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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 344409" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>I understand. I don't think teachers are asking for sympathy though, and perhaps that is where we differ. I have heard that comment before, that I am just as educated so I should make as much as teachers. I have a neighbor who has no children, married a man with grown children. She refuses to vote for a school levy and has threatened to move from our city if we ask for one more dime. Many in the neighborhood hope she does. She continues to corner me in the grocery store or wherever and compalin that teachers work "three hours a day and have three months off and make too much and have too much job security." She doesn't seem to get that I don't want to hear it anymore, even though I have walked away from her and told her so much to her face. </p><p></p><p>This woman works in the health insurance profession, selling health insurance plans to companies. She and her husband both make very very good incomes. She has redecorated her newly built home three times in ten years and just again got all new appliances, carpeting and granite counter tops, all the while complaining that the schools didn't need any more money and the teachers should take a pay cut. She posted signs in her yard against the school levy while we failed them for two years and lost busing and all extra currciulars. With all her education she failed to understand that her home property values are tied to how good the school system is.</p><p></p><p>The last time we spoke I told her that when insurance company executives, particularly health insurance companies, stopped taking the free handouts and huge salaries and benefits, I would talk to her. That our family was paying $36,000 a year in health premiums because we had preexisting conditions and couldn't get into any group plans, and that we were contemplating dropping health coverage because it was bankrupting us. She defends the insurance companies profits saying that they are a business and entitled to make whatever profit they can.</p><p></p><p>I don't mean to pick on you, I really don't. I just don't know of any teachers here who are wealthy on their salary. </p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 344409, member: 59"] I understand. I don't think teachers are asking for sympathy though, and perhaps that is where we differ. I have heard that comment before, that I am just as educated so I should make as much as teachers. I have a neighbor who has no children, married a man with grown children. She refuses to vote for a school levy and has threatened to move from our city if we ask for one more dime. Many in the neighborhood hope she does. She continues to corner me in the grocery store or wherever and compalin that teachers work "three hours a day and have three months off and make too much and have too much job security." She doesn't seem to get that I don't want to hear it anymore, even though I have walked away from her and told her so much to her face. This woman works in the health insurance profession, selling health insurance plans to companies. She and her husband both make very very good incomes. She has redecorated her newly built home three times in ten years and just again got all new appliances, carpeting and granite counter tops, all the while complaining that the schools didn't need any more money and the teachers should take a pay cut. She posted signs in her yard against the school levy while we failed them for two years and lost busing and all extra currciulars. With all her education she failed to understand that her home property values are tied to how good the school system is. The last time we spoke I told her that when insurance company executives, particularly health insurance companies, stopped taking the free handouts and huge salaries and benefits, I would talk to her. That our family was paying $36,000 a year in health premiums because we had preexisting conditions and couldn't get into any group plans, and that we were contemplating dropping health coverage because it was bankrupting us. She defends the insurance companies profits saying that they are a business and entitled to make whatever profit they can. I don't mean to pick on you, I really don't. I just don't know of any teachers here who are wealthy on their salary. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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