CB> I'm sorry to hear about the problems going on in Ontario.  Seems to 
CB> be the newest fad to trash education.  I'm sure the process will go 
CB> in cycles - when the educational system gets worse and the economies 
CB> decline, there will be a new push to spend more on education.  Seems 
CB> the teachers in many places are making more than the average blue 
CB> collar worker so it's time to bring them down a peg-or-two.
    Not just blue-collar workers make less than public school teachers in 
many places.
    Many white-collar workers with at least a bachelor's degree make less 
than public school teachers in their towns, particularly when the value of 
the excellent fringe-benefit packages many teachers get is factored in.
    When the teacher's union, year after year, gets its members raises at a 
time when many workers are facing "downsizings" and fringe-benefit cuts, 
hostility is understandable.
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