PLN 8

What matters in the world today is how low teacher salaries are. Teachers deserve to be paid more than they currently are. They have more value to the community than any pharmacist, and yet the educator is paid less. Teachers shape the minds of our children and have a lot of effect on every child that sits down in their classroom everyday. Teachers deserve to be paid more, thus I have devised an action plan. Both the state and federal governments should be reviewed for wasteful spending. The profits saved would then be added to teacher salary funds. Some government officials might claim that there is no wasted money, and yet $112 million dollars is spent by the National Defense Department on unused flight tickets. Just that amount alone would be enough to greatly increase the salaries of deserving teachers. George W. Bush had a plan to eliminate the top ten most wasteful items the government spent money on, but it was never put into action. Through my course of action, I intend to mail a letter, to both Governor Bill Ritter and President Obama, with a list of wasteful, unneeded expenditures that can be eliminated. The list will include several of the items from President Bush's list, along with several that I have deemed wasteful, such as the war in Iraq and the Middle East. Teacher salaries should be raised, and I intend to bring awareness to that fact.