Word: respect
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...Living Wage Campaign is fighting for a reasonable hourly rate of pay, as defined by the City of Cambridge, but implicit in its message is a call to treat those who cook our meals, clean our floors and wash our dishes with respect. This respect can take many forms and is all too often absent. It's in things as simple as politely greeting the employee who swipes our cards at meals as well as in refraining from adorning the Quincy House elevator with frozen yogurt, as someone felt the need to do last week...
...Return of the Jedi. But the first words out of her month: "I can't believe you're going on opening day. Not only are you going to see it, you're going to see it on opening day. I have to say, I've just lost a little respect...
...sort of performers in one respect," McCormack said. "To win in front of a crowd makes it that much more exciting...
Although the lack of respect afforded to teachers certainly does not encourage college graduates to become teachers, the relatively low salary does much more to discourage them. Most of my high school classmates were amazed that I was going to Harvard and that I was "just" going to be a high school history teacher. They wondered how I could live with the lack of respect most teachers receive. However, most Harvard students are perfectly willing to enter a profession that is not particularly respected by the general public; witness the number of us who become lawyers and politicians...
...Societal respect, although important, only goes so far. Money goes further. I have often told other Harvard students about my volunteer teaching endeavors or my desire to become a public school teacher, and received the response of: "Gee, I'd love to teach but I have to pay off my student loans," or, perhaps more bluntly: "Yeah, I'd like to teach, but I actually want to make some money." When it costs over $32,000 per year to go to Harvard, the average starting salary of a teacher in Massachusetts with a bachelor's degree...