Dad's Teaching Certificate and Initial Salary

I ran across this documentation showing Dad's Teaching Certificate and 1st three contracts to teach school at Jerome.

Found the first 3 contracts Dad signed to teach school. 

1946-47 School Year (partial) - signed on 18 Nov 1946 for remainder of year for $250/mo.

1947-48 School Year - signed on 18 April 1947 for $3,300/year.

1948-49 School Year - signed on 13 April 1948 for $3,500/year.

Blows my mind how little we paid teachers back then and how little we still pay our teachers. We have slipped from a 1st rate country to a 3rd rate country mainly on backs of our schools. When will we wake up!!

It takes real dedication to teach because you love to teach and feeding your family comes second.