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A lesson that pays

Thu., Feb. 7, 2019

If teachers are so “ridiculously overpaid” as Mike Reno claims (“Winners and losers in the U.S.,” Jan. 25), perhaps he should join this lucrative profession and share in this unlimited bounty.

I’m certain that a roomful of 30 eighth-graders would listen with rapt attention as he explained why he wasn’t worth his salary and then decide to become private-sector CEOs so they could shower their workers with the corporate profits which heretofore wound up in executive bonuses and shareholder pockets. Certainly a win-win solution.

Ted Wert

Sagle, Idaho

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