Improve the System, The Corvettes and the Kia's Would Agree

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Rescind, Don't Give In":

(1) Not all people from Plainview are pleading poverty.
(2) There aren't THAT many Corvettes or Mercedes on the car pool lines.
(3) For some it might be simple economics - they just can't afford a higher school tax bill. For others it's about a growing dissatisfaction with the mediocre staus quo education and wanting something in return for an increase in payment for this service. Again, simple economics.

Let's say Plainview could afford to pay teachers $250,000 a year. Would that actually make our school district better? Would the curriculum improve and our kids end up smarter just by adding money to the teachers' paychecks?

The inevitable raise that's on the table needs to be supported with a plan to improve education. The Board needs to listen and dignify parents' concerns about adding elementary school extra help, eliminating half days that take away valuable class time and come up with other actions that will impact and make a difference in the kids' bottom line education.

Teachers deserve to earn a fair living. But to throw money into an imperfect system without any attempt at fixing known problems is ludicrous. I am sure Corvette, Mercedes (and Honda, Toyota, Kia and Hyundai) owners and iPhone and designer-bag-and-luxury-boot-buying parents would agree.