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Do people need a reason to SAH?
| Sun, 07-18-2010 - 9:28am |
This theme was touched upon in another thread and I wanted to discuss it further.
| Sun, 07-18-2010 - 9:28am |
This theme was touched upon in another thread and I wanted to discuss it further.
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"Visiting with them, inviting them over, going to their homes TELLS you about WHO they are."
It certainly tells one more about who they are than getting info about occupation and financial status. Of course, it also helps to have conversations with people that are more substantive than "how much do you make? Do you rent or own?
"Do you do that? What type of relationship do you have with your neighbors?"
Actually, I lock myself up in my house and refuse to let the kids outside or speak to my neighbors ;-). (sarcasm, for the humor impaired).
If there are new teachers starting, how would you know if they had taught (and how many years) in another school district before they started in yours? Mostly by their salary as there are sites that show how much teachers start at with what degrees and levels of education.
What about teachers you may have had who took an extended maternity leave? You would have to know the person, personally then I would assume unless you are active enough in the school to know that info.
Or teachers who have taken enough continuing education courses to hit a higher part of the pay scale?
Again, there are scales that indicate that online.
"I don't think knowing that my neighbor is a cop or a lawyer or a teacher "gossipy"."
When the information comes from another neighbor who is giving you the "scoop" on everyone in the neighborhood, it counts as gossip in my book. Obviously, you see this differently. As I said before: it must be a cultural difference. It would be interesting for me to study your culture sometime, it's so very different from anything I've ever experienced ;-).
"I said I have never ASKED. Public alaries are published in our local paper so it is hard to avoid and many ARE online so it is public info."
WOW! Public salaries are published on the front page of your paper? You are forced to see them before you can read anything else? That's certainly different! Also, I didn't realize that it is hard to avoid such information online! Do public salaries appear on your home-page or something? To be honest, I don't find anything online unless I am actively looking for it, but then you said you never search...the information is just thrust upon you somehow.
Something else occurred to me: if you only get your information from the newspaper or online, does that mean that all of your neighbors are public employees? It just seems that you know an awful lot about all of your neighbors' salaries...
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