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  • Contract needs to show teachers are appreciated

    Jan Auman|Aug 8, 2018

    A teacher who works down from the hall from me in the La Conner school district recently said, “Honestly, I am invested, and I love what I do, but I am run down and exhausted. There aren’t enough hours in the day. I don’t know if I can continue teaching at La Conner, when I can go 15 miles to another school district and make at least five figures more than I am making now. (My colleague would make $12,000 more a year teaching in Stanwood.) I buy so many supplies for my students out of my own pocket. It simply isn’t fair to my own family....

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