You may not be aware of this, but you can't use a health insurance card to purchase school supplies.
Teachers don't get to choose on compensation -- low salary with generous benefits.
Tell you what - reduce my healthcare premiums that are about to skyrocket under Obamacare and I will spend $500 per year buying my own supplies. I will take that trade any day...
Okay, your wish is granted. I'll take $5,000 (or whatever) from your salary to pay for increased benefits. Now go spend $500 for supplies. Now you're down $5500 and the state is managing your health care cost. Congratulations! The difference between you and teachers is that you just ASKED to be paid like a socialist.
Cry me a freakin’ river! Public school teachers are among the most over payed, over pampered, under producing meritless parasites in the country. No other enterprise in the history of civilization has had so much undeserved tax payer money thrown at it for such dismal results as public education in the USA! If a teacher can’t afford to live on what they’re making let them get a real job that requires a full day’s work...12 months a year.
Sorry but your argument full of holes it is laughable.
My point is this - teachers that I know are pretty well compensated when you include all forms of compensation. To pay for a few supplies when you are pretty much promised a job for life (ever try to fire a teacher?), always get the nod in funding your raises from state government and almost never have to pay anything into the system that pays your benefits is a pretty good gig.
No, you cannot take your health card to the grocery store. But you can pay for more groceries with the healthcare savings they receive year after year after year...
BTW - I am paid based on my production. Hardly a socialist outlook. Are teachers paid on their production? Congrats to you for making an illogical argument.
Now, that being said, are there good teachers? Absolutely! My complaint is with those teachers who do next to nothing yet scream about their supposed lack of benefits every chance they get.
I hope you don’t ever write legislation... Your commentary makes no logical sense at all...
Bull. The average teacher makes $55,000. The money they get keeps going up and up and up and yet the whining keeps getting louder and louder and louder. And performance doesn’t improve.