My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.
My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
