>That is political. It isn't political. Nothing in my comment at all talks about the policies of how we pay anyone. If you read my words and then your mind too

>That is political. It isn't political. Nothing in my comment at all talks about the policies of how we pay anyone. If you read my words and then your mind took the leap to thinking about those policies, then you apparently have a tendency to politicize things, but that doesn't make my comment political. Regardless, your original statement was that it "started a political debate", and I'll concede that it did apparently do that. >I never asked you how you would allocate money, I just asked what you mean by "deserve". You asked what we could "do about it", referencing teacher pay and allocation of funds for that pay. >Also, I don't believe I bashed you, but there would be nothing disingenuous in asking you a question and then bashing you based on the answer. It would just not be nice or appropriate for HN. You didn't bash me based on the answer, you bashed me for even accepting the premise of the question, a question that you asked.