If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.
I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
It's fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about.
I know what it feels like to be paid less - substantially less - than the male lawyer in the office next to me.
Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.