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My guess is that the union will demand after a few years that teachers in the red zone are paid as much as teachers in the green zone but get to stay red

I agree. But does anyone really think these teachers would lose their jobs? They would still belong to the union, right?

Just think about this if you are a teacher with just a few years to go for retirement. Take this new proposal, and enhance your retirement salary tremendously. This is a great offer for them.

[Emmett McCarthy]

While I applaud the new superintendant in D.C. for this effort and see it as a creative approach to working with or working around the established system, it still frosts me that these non-performing people can’t be fired. It seems that all government employees, especially teachers, have these various guarantees about salaries, pension, health benefits and job security that nobody else has. We work for them instead of them working for us. It will all collapse of its own weight.