You are welcome Bucco. I have nothing but respect for good teachers. Those salaries don't reflect all of the pay either. Those figures are just basic steps and don't include extra pay for extra degrees and so forth. But remember, this is Rhode Island. The state requires monitors on elementary school buses. These monitors, who are union members, get off of the bus at stops and assure there are no children in the bus' path. When I lived in RI three years ago, these monitors in one town made $45 an hour and were guaranteed four hours of pay per day, five days a week. This at a cost of $11.7 million annually. I'd wager a bet that your wife didn't make that kind of money.

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