IT THEN FUNDS THE SCHOOL
Right...
This makes Obamacare sound easy..
I have seen such schemes posted before....
It begets the question why would anyone go to work in a school for the retarded? They have no monetary future beyond low skill/wage jobs if they are even employable at all.
The converse in high performing suburban districts will benefit substantially.
Further...then it becomes servitude for the student who can never escape the bondage to these teachers.
Where does it end?
So we tax private businesses to pay for extravagant pensions for public employees that the private business owners can’t even afford to pay to their own employees?
Great Education? I question that. In my school district. The best students get most of their education outside of school. There are several math tutoring companies that have sho2wn up. And IXL, ALEX and Khan Academy all tutor kids and do a far better job of teaching than the school employees.
The sad thing is that the schools ratings have all gone up. But the school has nothing to do with it. The reality is that you are throwing away your money when you give it to most school districts. The teachers are literally holding back education.
How about a free market in education and zero public education. As another guy said—your plan makes Ocare look easy.
Here In Commiefornia we have a wonderful website. http://transparentcalifornia.com. Check it out it shows what public employees make pay+benefits+pensions.Make sure you have taken your blood pressure pills first.
No pensions, no unions, no benefits at all for government
employees. Base all pay on the average of the private sector
and let them set up their own insurance and retirement.
Insurance, union dues, retirements for government employees
shouldn’t be the burden of the taxpayer.
“Median salaries for elementary teachers were $53,400 in 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Using “Education Next’s” estimate that benefits added 32 percent more to salaries, this amount equaled $17,088, for a combined salary and benefits of $70,488.”
http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/average-teachers-salary-plus-benefits-30171.html
Just pay them the $70,488 and let them deal with the rest
themselves.
Eliminate government mandated compulsory schooling.
Make primary education a local decision. No state or fed overburden.
Get the government, from the feds to the states, out of the education/indoctrination business.
Divest ALL public school employees; they will no longer be considered public employees.
Phase out pension plans for all school employees, and go to 401k type programs, just like all of the other industries that have lost their pension plans.
The curriculum will be established by the parents, and applied by the local school district.
Funding for schools should be done at the local level, by the parents of children attending school, and the parents have the final say.
Government enforced compulsory education is one of the ideas that the US ever came up with. The potential for greed, manipulation, fraud, corruption, and subversion/indoctrination are just too great to let anyone in government be anywhere near young minds.
Teacher’s pensions are simple to solve:
The kids get a free education on the front end (if they go to public school), but they should contribute to their teachers’ pensions on the back end.
In other words, the quality of any individual teacher’s pension will depend on the quality of earnings achieved by her former students. 30 years of teaching 4 classes each day with 25 kids in a class means there should be about 3,000 potential contributors to her pension.
Nothing wrong with former students paying a few bucks per teacher for every year of education they received for free.
And hey, if the kids are unemployable, well, the taxpayer may have paid an (undeserved) salary in the past but at least they aren’t stuck funding the golden years of a social parasite who contributed little beyond babysitting (no pensions in the babysitting field as far as I’m aware...).
No government workers pay taxes.
That is all.
Why should government workers (teachers or otherwise) get a pension at all?
Very few non government workers get them. Let them get an IRA like everyone else...
The only thing I agree with is paying for education. This would require that teachers actually be good at their jobs as the student/parent would be able to decide where to spend their money, as opposed to having it dictated to them. The rest is just a liberal socialist teachers dream world.
We are already being forced to support a severely broken education system. Your proposal just makes it worse.