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Show Teachers earn less than half of governor's goal potential he has." A first year teacher in Davis County earns $16,201 per year, a figure we find alarming. Most of us earn less than half the amount the governor tells us a college graduate should make. We feel we have subsidized education edu-cation in Utah for long enough by teaching large classes at low salaries, and doing without books and supplies. Only when Utah students are able to be taught in reasonably sized classes by adequately ade-quately compensated teachers, and every student has adequate books and supplies should Governor Bangerter's other "reforms" be considered. ' Undersigned Faculty Members West Bountiful Elementary Kalyn Denny, Merikay Has kins, Mary H. Page, Gary A. fyor, Jesse Dredge, Theda Kirkland, Teddi Patterson, Pat-terson, Dianne Smith, Shauna Lund, John W. Stevens, Ann P. Cluff, Lynn Mecham, Lisa Manderm, Carlene Murry, Dorothy O'Brien, Vickie Burningham, D. Roy Warren, Carole J. Matheson, Kathy Scott, Dixie G. Allen, Nola Ewing, Myra Thornley, Colleen Johnson, Kay Goodfellow, Gayle Chandler and Jill Hancock. Dear Editor How ironic that in a speech calling call-ing for educational reform and claiming "clearly, the better education edu-cation a person has, the better the earning potential he has" (Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 27), Governor Bangerter goes on to quote statistics which show that the starting salary for teachers in Davis County is closer to that of a high school dropout than it is to that of a high school graduate or a college graduate. "Noting statistics that show average income for high school dropouts is $14,500, while it is $30,000 for high school graduates, $46,000 for college graduates and $54,500 for those with graduate degrees, the governor said, "clearly, the better education a person has, the better the earning |