Both the Eagle Point and Reynolds School District teachers voted to go out for more pay and benefits. Here's the breakdown of what the Eagle Point teachers want and what they've been offered. Here's the low down on Reynolds.
Both sets of teachers want more money and benefits.
Here's the reality in Oregon and in the rest of the country.
Here are the teachers:
Here's the rest of us:
The teachers want us to give more while we have less to give. Guess you could call them--1%ers.
I think I get it. These stupid, lazy, greedy teachers need to be herded up like cattle in cheap suits and put back on the capitalistic assembly line.
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ReplyDeleteHave you figured out that C word conundrum next? : ) I do agree with you about the language used in these disagreements. I was lucky enough to have a couple of teachers in my life take some extra time with me to teach me the reading and writing skills that have gotten me to where I am at in life.
Calling teachers lazy or greedy is not true and helps little to resolve these issues. The same wihty calling tax payers stingy or not respecting teahers. The problem with the teachers unions are they are effective advocates for their meembers, but have lost touch with what is going on in the communities around them. There has been a subtle shift in definition to where a job has now become a benefit rather than being tied to performance and value to the tax payer.
Between the recession and local bureaucracies holding the struggling economy's head under water, their demands have outstripped the ability of their communities to pay for what they are getting in return.
Education is an investment in our future, not PERS benefits. If spending over 50% of the state budget on k-12 education is getting us schools that are falling down and failing to adequately prepare 50% of their students, we're not gettign our money's worth.
To paraphrase Clemenceau, education is to important to leave to the eductors.
sat·ire
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noun
1.
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
Glad to finally see someone in this neck of the woods who knows what Satire means! Keep up the good work! (Because the school system certainly isn't, apparently).
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