Councillor's Facebook jibe at teachers
I hope city councillor Gareth Ellis was joking when he told me on Facebook that he thought teachers were vastly overpaid.
In a discussion about why schools are prone to close in the winter the Conservative member for Belah offered this surprising explanation: "Of course the big problem is, teachers are now paid far to (sic) much money and largely live in rural areas that get snowed in much more often. It isnt because the school cant open and the kids cant get there, but that the faculty live to far from the school."
Despite my wife being a teacher I am no apologist for the profession's aversion to working in the snow like the rest of us, but overpaid? I don't think so.
Published: January 20, 2011
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