A recent article in The Herald listing the salaries of the school superintendents of a number of local school districts has been the basis of considerable controversy as witnessed by the volume of letters to the editor.
I am somewhat amused, as we think nothing of driving to the metropolis south of us to watch a number of multi-millionaires play a game in which they throw, bat and field a baseball. The annual salaries of these players can range from several million for the local team’s second baseman, who’s barely batting .200, to an excess of $25 million for a third baseman (when the Yankees are in town). Yet we become incensed when we read that the superintendent of a school district, who has the responsibility for the education of several thousand students, is earning in the area of $150,000 per year. The question in my mind is: Do we really have our priorities in the right order?
Bob Barker
Snohomish
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