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Lvfacts, Funny! Let me see you do my job for a week, and "see how you fare"! Good friggin' luck, dude!

I'm sure you were writing letters complaining about the lack of support for teachers when all the other state employees were getting raises during the boom years and others weren't...

I'm sure you work 70 hours a week as many teachers do...

"The state teachers union, with tens of thousands of members"

???

Tens of thousands of members? Where does that come from? How many are there, really?

As for this editorial, I like Star's comments.

The schools cannot provide EVERYTHING for EVERYBODY all the time. These kids do what every teen does when they really want something - they do what it takes. That's a GOOD thing. It builds character. It raises those who are willing to work and go the extra mile above others.

If you're born rich as Brian Greenspun is, I guess you don't understand budgeting. You think there's always money for anything you want.

There are still late buses, just maybe not the ultra-late buses besides. That wasn't made clear - presumably to confuse people. It's expensive to run a bus late for a handful of kids. Oh, but let's cut teacher salaries or classroom supplies instead, right?

I did plenty of extracurricular activities in HS. I never got enough sleep. If I couldn't get a ride, I rode my bike or walked (no public transit available) - and the climate wasn't balmy as it is here. One of my children did the same. We worked our butts off and went w/o sleep because we wanted to participate in certain activities. Our motivation is our transportation.

It would be nice if the mines and casinos paid their fair share of public costs, but until they do, this cut was one of the most sensible and intelligent possible. Geez. Get a grip, Sun.

As for the so-called "union," it, too is ineffectual, which is another reason teachers need to be activists.

As for it focusing on working conditions for teachers, yes, that's what it's supposed to do. Too bad it does such a lousy job of it, or our schools might attract more of the best and the brightest, and pay more for the excessively long hours our bosses want us to work.

It is unfortunate that some of you want teachers to work 70 or more hours a week for 40K, and then complain when they try to preserve their due process rights, which would probably not exist without a "union" even as pitiful as this one. It is unfortunate that some of you can't see that abusing teachers is damaging to students.

Malous/ Dennis Hill, you aren't making much sense. The only way for teachers to be heard is to become activists.

I believe your salient remark (i.e., the one that tells us what you really think) was "shut up and teach."

That's exactly the attitude that is causing much havoc in the schools. We are the professionals who see what the problems are because we deal with them, we live and breathe them, but everybody - including a large number of INEFFECTUAL LEADERS - want us to shut up. Of course they do; they're scared that we might reveal how lousy they are.

Sorry, Dennis, but you just come across as one more know-it-all who knows not and thinks he knows - someone's definition of a fool.