@Weathergirl5 : Very true! This is one reason I hate it when people say teachers make too much money. Raises in school districts (if they get one) are often minimal at best.

@Luckysis : Yep. And with raises usually come raises in insurance premiums. For paras and other support staff the raise is usually minimal. (For example my last year I was making 18K a YEAR. I got a 3% raise which was about $540- not much by any means. But the premiums went up way more than that and they also raised the deductible) So at the end of the day I took home less money after the raise.

@Weathergirl5 : I wanted to do a sad face, too, but wanted you to get the credits

@Luckysis : Lol Awe thank you

The funding for the raises is coming from the State bill that passed last week. This is why districts across the state are giving raises.

@HumbleGirl : As someone who has benefited nothing from the public school system, and in fact traumatized by it, I'd say that simply providing kids with a skillshare login would be more cost effective and likely about as consistent in sending people to a college degree.