Posted on 09/09/2014 5:57:09 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Some Democratic politicians and other proponents of more funding for K-12 schools held a rally in Ann Arbor. State Rep. Jeff Irwin was quoted in MLive.
"The crisis is real. You see the increased class sizes. You have teachers asking parents for reams of paper."
For the Record says: The crisis is real. But it’s not the cost of paper or the amount taxpayers are spending on K-12 education. Like every other district in the state, the real budget killer for Ann Arbor Public Schools is its employee retirement benefits. In just two years, Ann Arbor’s costs for retiree pension and health insurance jumped from $22.3 million in 2011 to $28.1 million in 2013. That nearly $5 million increase would buy a lot of paper. And retirement pension and health care costs are increasing.
The bottom line is that grade school and high school teachers are not worth as much as they are paid. The total compensation package it too high.
It might make teachers much better at preparing students for their financial futures, if they had to prepare for their own. JMHO
Exactly. And the size of that compensation is concealed in the benefits and pension packages rather than the base salaries.
Yep. Getting unions out of public employment would be a good start to solving a number of problems.
My sister-in-law was an “educator” in michigan schools. She retired after years of slacking when she was in her early 50’s. Always the arrogant LIB a**, she let the rest of know that she was never paid enough when “working”, always was worth more than she was paid and how parents (and children) were jerks. If the michigan pension system gets a major adjustment or collapses, the laugh is on her.
“The bottom line is that grade school and high school teachers are not worth as much as they are paid. The total compensation package it too high.”
They are paid right. They need to only have their last 10 years included in their pension. Teacher works for 35 years. Thats a lot of benefit. Plus they get paid for time not taken off as well as accumulated sick days.
Unions won the education system it’s why it’s a money pit that cranks out dumb kids by the gross.
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