I think it's their way to 'bargain'.. *shurg*..I kinda wish all those teachers would say "huh, OK" and bolt from the state.. let the state figure out what to do with all the kids..
the idea that we pay teachers too much is frankly ridiculous.. We expect them to sit in a class room with upwards of 60(coming soon to a Detroit school room near you ) children,preteens, and of course the
know-it-all I'm almost 18 years old teen for 6-8 hours a day and make them learn at the great pay of maybe $35,000 a year. To top it off, we ask that they buy their own supplies, supplies of the students, not punish the students and pass them even though they can't read 2 pages of 'see Spot run' because it contains words instead of 'lol/iykwim/omg/brb'
and then, when there is a crisis, we give tax breaks to corporations who aren't hiring and who are leaving this country tomorrow after getting that tax-break today, because tomorrow is another day and what did you do for them on that day? and to pay for those breaks, or any other misuse of funds along the way, we take it from the people we expect to be in a room with our children 6-8 hrs a day when even we wouldn't do that and we're the parents..
sounds as smart as taking the police out of Camden and the fire department out of Harlem or the 1st responders out of any city.. but the Koch Brothers needed that extra billion because the 15 that they got just this year alone just isn't what it used to be..
how about this, how about we stop paying the salaries of our elected officials.. or we bring them down to the rate of the highest paid beat-cop. "elected official" was never supposed to be a 'job' or a 'career'.. I get that some need the money because they are small timers and I'm good with that, but why does John McCain need to make $200K a year plus get his medical? he's got what 8 houses? Same with John Kerry? and why would either of them need medicare and SS? Why does Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, T Boone Pickens? If we're really going to do this let's start off with a cut off point, if you have X amount in the bank already you can't get medicare and SS checks, and you can't draw a salary by serving in gov't either.
until we address those "wastes"... all this other stuff is just Goliath picking on David just because he can..
