"They're all lucky they have a job."

Walking into meetings late and then writing about them has gotten me in trouble in the past, but I just have a couple thoughts that I wanted to share after walking into last night's budget committee meeting and catching part of the conversation about the proposed teachers' contract.  

One of the budget committee members asked about how the teachers are evaluated and Dr. Hayes described the process briefly and went on to offer reading material and other resources in case they wanted to look into it further. I suppose you can argue that it's a question of the bottom line--if teachers are getting raises, then it affects the tax rate. But really, should the budget committee be concerned with the teacher evaluation process? 

When talking about teachers' salaries, the same budget committee member was asked if she cared that Newmarket teachers are still paid less on average than our seacoast neighbors. She replied, "No. They're all lucky they have a job."