If a $750 bonus is an “insult,” then please insult me

Apparently, Rep. Tricia Cotham thinks that the one-time $750 bonus granted to teachers in this year’s state budget is an “insult.”

How many North Carolinians – including those in the private and nonprofit sectors who Rep. Cotham purports to represent – would welcome such an “insulting” gesture?  How many of them will be lucky to see even a fraction of that bonus added to their pay in the coming year?

(Video courtesy of The Progressive Pulse.)

Terry Stoops / Director of the Center for Effective Education | John Locke Foundation

Terry Stoops is the Vice President for Research and Director of Education Studies at the John Locke Foundation. Before joining the Locke Foundation, he worked as the progra...