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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
There are towns -- lawyers live in them -- where public school teachers cannot afford to buy a house, and have no choice but to send their kids to (presumably inferior) public schools in other districts, or to (gasp) private schools. When club gets agitated about that, and insists that the wealthy suburbs pay their teachers (and policemen, etc.) enough to live in them (oh, the hypocrisy!), sign me up for the crusade.
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My mom called me all pissed about how her taxes just got upped because teachers in her district demanded a new contract with $12,500 in benefits per year. Yeh, I ain't making that up. Oh, and they demanded a fat pension.
Here is wisdom... This country will fall on its fucking ass if someone doesn't remind people that everything is a bargain and you get what you pay for. If you want to have three months off every summer and low stress (don't even attempt to tell me how "stressed" teachers are - I have no desire to wipe vomit from my keyboard), you'll get paid accordingly. If you want to work 9-5, you'll get paid accordingly. Teachers are not dumb - they understand the bargain they've made. Their demands for pay similar to what some newly minted professionals get paid are disingenuine at best and an unvarnished greedy shakedown at worst.
These teachers and govt workers and union folk with their pension demands amaze me. I have family who get pensions which allow them to live lifestyles comparable to those lived by other family who worked, saved and retired. Working for Uncle Sam for 25 years is like saving a pile of dough sizable enough to turn off $50-60k in returns when you factor in the pensions and health benefit packages these "retirees" (nobody really retires from the govt because none of them have ever really worked) get. Hell, I should quit now and get a cushy govt job, or perhaps teach. Why the fuck bust one's ass when you can shake the school district or the govt down and do just as well?
