> Salaries are set by CPS and go up on a schedule based on years of experience. How is that a market? It's a market because she has a choice. > But we look at

> Salaries are set by CPS and go up on a schedule based on years of experience. How is that a market? It's a market because she has a choice. > But we look at is as a donation to society and to our city. Fair enough, but that doesn't imply that you're owed more. If she's unhappy with her "donantion", she's free to not make it. > If we have to look at her decision to be a teacher as a donation -- she is not payed enough! News flash - almost everyone thinks that s\he is underpaid. If you don't like the consequences of your choice, make a different one.