Iowa paper prints salaries -- and some commentary

I believe he was underminding them. Sounds like a stealth strategy.

 

Riptide, if not for the blue font, you'd be a poster after my own heart.

 

Sure, you can. I'm sure the world is a much better place now, too.

 

13 or 14 years ago, the AJC published a list of the salaries for every public high school in the state. IIRC, the list included head coaches and assistants for football and basketball. Took several pages, agate type, and it was a massive attention-getter. Lots of fun was had by all. There were no comments like the one in this case.

A few years after that, the paper did a similar, though smaller, project about teacher salaries. Highest paid classroom teacher in the state was a football coach in a suburban county. He'd been teaching more than 30 years and had a PhD, and he was not happy about his salary being made public.

 

Any public school teacher who doesn't think their salary is public info is an idiot.

 

You'd be surprised how many don't realize that, or that their work emails are public record, too.

 

Yeah, stuff like that causes some people to stay away from public jobs.

If you feel self-conscious about people knowing your salary, maybe it means you feel that you're not really earning it.

 

I don't begrudge hyperqualified teachers of many years service earning $100K, assuming they're producing smart, advancing students.

I do begrudge public employees cashing out on $75K-90K pensions at age 55, while taxpayers work till they're 85 to pay for them. Some draw pensions longer than they actually worked.

 

It's a good thing newspapers don't publish the salaries of their own publishers and editorial employees.

 

They should, but publishers and editors only think some info needs to be public.

 

Do tax dollars fund newspapers?

 

Yes. Or do mail subsidies or public notices not count?