What type of person, indeed?

[liberalhistorian]

24. Thank you and a thank you to your daughter.

I also live in South Dakota, and I sub at our local school when asked (I have a BA, but not a teaching degree, so I can sub), and I'm the proud daughter of now-retired teachers who worked their asses off for nearly forty years and got NOTHING for it in the way of appreciation or money, since all their money now goes to my stepdad's illness and nursing home institutionalization. My stepdad had a MA and, although we lived in OH, still made hardly anything compared to so many other professions with an equal education.

SD has the lowest salaries in the nation; a starting salary in many districts doesn't even crack 30 grand a year and even those with a decade or more of experience are lucky to hit forty grand a year. It is one of the most difficult, yet important, professions, yet it and its professionals are treated and paid like shit while those with far less important and critical professions make far more, often by spending their days screwing others over, and are given far more deference.