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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
What do you think the boards are gunna do: reduce their pay, or fire a bunch of expendable teachers?
I think that teachers need to take a more private sector approach to benifits, no doubt. And BOE members and superintendents need to have their pay levels reworked.
But this does none of that. This gets rid of teachers, and not reduce pay levels. Sure, you will get some to budge.
Tell me if you are in their shoes, would you cut your pay in a tough economic times? Or would you just get rid of a few new teachers. Whats the real difference between 30 kids to a class or 40 kids to a class? Is music that important? Do we need to offer Italian or French or even Spanish in schools?
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Yes. I did. So did everyone else in my company. And we let go of 20% of our workforce to stay alive a little while ago. Nobody here is remotely overpaid. I know what most make. And I got to fire my friends. And I'm not alone- I know of at least 3 other guys in different companies who had to do a similar deal.
Life has been **** in the private sector for a while. Ask a plumber, electrician, or other contract based employee how thier life has been. Or almost anybody else who's not a public employee.
This is just the poor economy hitting jobs that have been otherwise protected. Teachers, toll collectors, road crews, etc. Doesn't matter.
Most people in the private sector have been boned for a while. Now seems to be the time when the public employees take a hit. A lot of public services have been wasteful for a while. Sucks that it effects the lives of our children but they can't be used as a sheild against cutting the fat of a fatty system.
The shame of it is that all of the hard working teachers and other public employees will be **** on because of the actions of the lazy ones. But again, I'm all for merit based raises and security- not due to working just hard enough to not get fired over a period of time.