School board to hold line on millage rate

I do not teach in Lamar County, but I am a teacher in Georgia. I have heard that all teacher's salaries, regardless of salary steps, were being frozen. My personal opinion of this is that the government, starting with Sonny Perdue, needs to take a look at the amount of assistant superintendents and directors and assistant directors there are in the school systems. Then, they should reduce the number by at least 1/2, and give those salaries to the teachers. Some of these "directors" are paid $80,000 for pushing paper around, and teachers only get $40,000 (starting teachers, that is, roughly)??? Compared to the number of hours we put in each and every day, the amount of paperwork we have to turn in, the amount of politics we have to deal with, no discipline in the classroooms, and how much we have to pay for out of our pockets, teachers don't get paid anywhere near what they should. I'm glad that Lamar County was able to save some money down the line, but couldn't they have done this another way??? And, like I said before, it's not just Lamar County--it's everywhere in Georgia. Teacher's pay scales for Georgia is among the lowest in the United States! It's no wonder Georgia is needing teachers! Anyway, thank you for the kind words and I pray that things will get better SOON!