Saving Miss Oliver’s

This letter was published in The NY Times on 6/9/09:

To the Editor: (In response to an article about the founder of a charter school paying $125,000 salaries to teachers to assure excelence)  What should really amaze us is not that a school is willing to pay $125,000 salaries for great teachers but that this level of compensation is so unusual as to rate front-page placement in a national newspaper. Isn’t it amazing that a whole range of professional and business people, some in their first year of employment, can earn more than the people who taught them how to read, write, compute and think? Isn’t this the way to build our national house on sand?