If teachers would quit whining about their salaries and teach, maybe we'd all vote to increase their pay. No one goes into teaching thinking they'll be paid like a captain of industry, only to discover -- oh, my! -- the salary is only 30 or 40 percent higher than other white collar workers. And, please, let's not point out that American teachers, on average, have 63 vacation days a year. Poor, poor teachers! Every time I travel out of the country, I run into vacationing teachers. It seems they have both the time and money to travel the world, yet your average American student can't point out Turkey on a map.