Newspaper articles report that our nation's teachers average $47,620 per year while dock workers average $90,000; though the figures vary depending upon the source the difference for teachers remains about 50% less. This difference is a powerful communication, an acknowledgment that is not producing the results we say we want. Inappropriate acknowledgment produces less than desirable results.

The fact that the inequity persists reveals a breakdown in communication. The premise being—when communication takes place everyone feels good upon completion. Teachers have learned to accept less, not only with their pay, but from their students. Every few years teachers submit themselves to the humiliating trauma of begging for pay raises and funding, eventually resorting to threats or strikes because they have not learned how to produce the desired result otherwise.