Ray Vasquez is a Spanish teacher and swim coach at Cactus High School in the Peoria Unified School District.
He's been teaching in the district for seven years and has a master's degree from the College of Education at NAU.
But what most of his students don't know is that he also works at a Blockbuster every weekend for $7.62 per hour to help make ends meet for his wife and two children.
Because of state budget cuts and other losses in funding, the district had to cut salaries and require teachers and staff to take two furlough days.
Holly Urbancic, executive director and representative of the Peoria Classroom Teachers Association, said teachers also took reductions in Proposition 301 money, pay raises funded in part by state sales tax money.
Just wait until these "professionals" make daycare wages, for that is where public education is headed.
College students need to be reminded over and over to avoid teaching like the plague.
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