[Michael.SF.]

Just another lying lefty.

[trisham]

http://www.ratemyteachers.com/stephanie-keiles/1649811-t

[maddog55]

Guess she wasn’t a math teacher.

[yoe]

While Keiles blames “Republican goons” for her district’s problems, the reality was the GOP had very little do with the troubles facing Plymouth-Canton.

Such open-mindedness will not be missed in the field of academia.

[Ray76]

No doubt her associations/affiliations would be interesting.

[originalbuckeye]

I find it interesting that most teachers complain, but have much more time off than those of us working stiffs who don't always get the summer off. I toiled for over 4 decades in an altruistic medical laboratory profession and barely ended up at retirement making what she was making when she quit. I do value teachers, but many have become nothing but a drain on their systems. And after paying into SS for 45 years, my income is well under a third of what I was making while working, and then they take out for Medicare and Fed taxes. I WISH I had gone into teaching like my mother suggested. Summers off and every school vacation would have been nice instead of the three weeks of vacation/sick I ended my career with.

[mykroar]

Maybe she should join a corporation - they're still giving 20% raises. /sarc

[Mr. K]

I would be willing to bet that if I wrote a 100% fictional account of how my life was ruined by evil republicans and their budgets cuts, with 100% fabricated examples, the libtards and their media lick-spittle’s would run with it with no fact checking.

[Sgt_Schultze]

A cost of living increase indicates no net benefit to the employer. A raise would indicate increased productivity had been attained.
Did this teacher's students' proficiency improve?
Did the number of successful students increase without any diminished attainment?
Were new students better prepared than previous students to go to the next level?

[wbill]

I'm pretty sure I will never hear the words, 'We can't afford to give you a raise,' or worse (as in the past two years), 'You're going to have to take a pay cut.' "

I'm in private employ. Since 2009, I've heard both.

[fireman15]

My wife’s mother, her grandfather and most of her aunts and uncles were teachers. Her grandfather was also a principal and superintendent of a large school district and her mother worked as a vice principal for a while as well. WE also set up historical displays and do presentations at schools and universities. So we have great respect for the profession.

That said... in our area in the last 30 years the cost of a K-12 education in inflation adjusted dollars has more than doubled. The cost of a college education has gone up even faster than that. In our home town which is a city of approximately 200,000 more than a billion dollars has been spent upgrading facilities during a period of declining enrollment in just the last ten years alone.

With all this increased spending one would assume that achievement tests would show some improvement in student performance, but in fact scores have continually trended downward. We are constantly hammered with the poor teacher thing... when in fact relative to the rest of the population teachers are paid well over twice what they were when my wife’s family was teaching.

Our property taxes are now far higher than what our house payment once was. The only solutions offered have been to increase spending more. We are tired of it.

[ozzymandus]

Good luck finding a job which pays $60,000+ for 180 days per year. And with an Education degree.

[GeorgieCavendish]

Benefits of being a teacher:
Summer’s Off
Prep time (during school and on in-service days)
7 Hour days (including lunch)
2 hour delays (still paid and don’t have to make up)
Bad Weather Cancellations (everyone else goes to work)
Christmas and New Years Off (~1.5 weeks)
Thanksgiving(at least 2 days)
various other holidays off
Fall Break
Spring Break
Opportunity for Teacher’s Aid (Students who grade your papers for you)
Automatic raises (for each additional year teaching)
Inflation raises (negotiated by Unions)
Education raises (For a M.Ed [WAY EASIER than a Master’s in a subject content area)
Education Raises (for in-services with CEUs)
Education Benefits (tuition Assistant)
Great Healthcare Insurance
403(b)s and pensions
Job Security (Tenure, which sticks even if you are terrible at your job).
Some schools do not even require professional dress!

I went from Active Duty Navy to working on my M.A. and teacher licensing program. After hearing many complaints, I started saying, “can’t be any worse than deployment” Of course one of these clowns replied to me that in fact, yes, teaching was harder than being in the military....

Teaching is a great job. They are mostly mad that they are now being held accountable for their jobs. And while, yes, there is nothing that a teacher can do if students come to school without being fed, made to shower, disciplined, having drugs and psychological problems... I can’t feel too sorry about it since the majority of these things came about because of the political actions of the TEACHERS UNIONS and their support of the Democrats!

[kearnyirish2]

“When Keiles’ and other school employees’ pension costs skyrocketed, federal funds all but disappeared and enrollment dropped for five consecutive years, the district had to make tough financial choices.”

The dropping enrollment is why the Dems (the political arm of the teachers’ unions) are for open borders; if federal dollars come with those illegals, then taxpayers in all 50 states will be paying for teachers in the Bolshevik strongholds (who in turn funnel dues paid by the taxpayers into the Dem coffers).