The average salary is close to 65K in NJ and it hasn't helped Camden or Newark. I am not against paying teachers more but it won't solve our education problem.

The average salary is close to 65K in NJ and it hasn't helped Camden or Newark. I am not against paying teachers more but it won't solve our education problem. 65K for 9 months of teaching with several holidays built into those 9 months is quite a lot. Perhaps if we made school year-round teacher pay would go up considerably. Of course one of my favorite summer experiences was when I realized that as a supervisor at a theme park that my algebra teacher was one of my subordinates, as he took a summer job there too!