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U.S. public schools). However the third meaning must be what the speaker intended, given that our teachers work for a lower salary than virtually every other teacher in surrounding school districts.
Webster’s describes “overpay” as, "lb pay too much to someone.” This left me puzzled as I couldn’t understand why one would say, in the same statement, that our teachers are paid less than their peers yet, at the same time are paid too much. And then a new word came to mind, “oxymoron.” This word is defined by Webster’s as: a figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined. Clearly the speaker at the budget meeting was using this literary device, also defined by Webster’s as: “a smart saying which at first appears foolish” to test the knowledge of the audience and the reading public. I am pleased to report that I passed the test, as would most of my students and their parents, by realizing that, what at first glance was a foolish statement, was in fact a clever ploy
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