I couldn’t help but laugh over the last few weeks of bickering back and forth between school administrators and teachers salaries. Everyone knows it all started with the governor stating how overpaid school superintendents are. Duh. When starting teachers make around $34,000 (yes that is what they make and what they file on their income tax return), while superintendents make three to ten times that amount, something is very wrong. Then to hear administration officials try to justify these rates of pay by taking statistics of teachers’ salaries out of context and adding in estimated values of benefits is also just plain wrong. I’d like to see the teacher making $100,000. What are they, 90 years old, teach summer school, hold a doctorial degree, coach three seasons of varsity sports and advisor for the senior class? You want a solution to keep taxes down? Start consolidating services starting right at the top.