My mother has been teaching snot-nosed anklebiters their ABCs for almost three decades. She loves what she does and wouldn't trade it for anything. But even with all her qualifications, she can't pull quite enough to keep up with my little brother's tuition payments (Catholic high schools... I tell ya
) and my parents have had to run up a bit of credit-card debt trying to stay ahead of everything - although it's a little easier without me around to eat all their food and stuff.
The bright side of her job is that my mother - and the rest of my family by association - gets kickass health insurance benefits. Dental, prescription, emergency, you name it. (My father's insurance covers the car and everything else.) Still, I've seen what she does, and she should be drawing
way more than she does to put up with a lot of the crap she has to take - not even from the kids as much as from the education system itself.
