Boy am I glad that I don't live where you live, where people are just out for recognition. What a sad way to live - only trying to get people to acknowledge you for what you are doing.
Try the census. I believe the difference there is about $17K per year for single wage earner dual parent households and DWP households but it has been a while since I looked at it. Since taxes are paid on those monies, the WM is responsible for more taxes being paid.
Oh and you are a role model as a teacher. For good or for bad. I had one teacher pretty much destroy my spirit only to have another, years later, rekindle the flame. I wanted to look her up to thank her but she had died by the time I got around to realizing just what she had done for me. It took me a long time to even try after the first teacher got through with me. She was the type who is convinced you must break a child's spirit to teach them. All she did was flush my will to learn. Fortunately, another teacher saw the potential even though the performance wasn't there.
I do love to teach. I just love the leisure life more. But it doesn't give me play money.
I realize I'm a role model as a teacher. Especially since I teach little kindergarteners & they really look up to their teachers. Often we are the first teacher they have ever had, so we are the first of many to come down the line.
Do you not see that some of these school fundraisers actually teach these children (that you think are being taken advantage of) something? Most of our fundraisers here involve the children working for the donations and that teaches them something. Having parents just hand over a check doesn't really teach the kids anything except that parents are only there for money.
And even if the SES could go higher, some of us have a high enough SES to be nervous about how we're going to raise our children outside of our comfort zone that we don't want any higher of one...
around here, all these positions that your contributions to the GNP supposedly support, are filled by SAHM's volunteering their time. The best example I can come up with, because you put "library" in one of your posts, the librarian in town, is a volunteer. Our library was partially destroyed by fire last summer, those "contributions" WOHM's make to the GNP did nothing to repair the books - the massive amount of SAHM's that took the time to go through all the boxes of books did much more to the reopening of the library that any check could.
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Oh and you are a role model as a teacher. For good or for bad. I had one teacher pretty much destroy my spirit only to have another, years later, rekindle the flame. I wanted to look her up to thank her but she had died by the time I got around to realizing just what she had done for me. It took me a long time to even try after the first teacher got through with me. She was the type who is convinced you must break a child's spirit to teach them. All she did was flush my will to learn. Fortunately, another teacher saw the potential even though the performance wasn't there.
I realize I'm a role model as a teacher. Especially since I teach little kindergarteners & they really look up to their teachers. Often we are the first teacher they have ever had, so we are the first of many to come down the line.
Paige
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