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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Heidt, who worked as a prosecutor for the state before becoming a teacher seven years ago, received a pink slip this year and said she would be out as a teacher with a budget that closes the deficit with cuts alone.

She's an attorney and decided to become a teacher? Something doesn't smell quite right.

2 posted on 05/10/2011 4:58:20 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Trump - Romney, without the Mormon baggage.)
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To: Graybeard58

“She’s an attorney and decided to become a teacher?”

Perhaps teachers in California are better paid than attorney?! She probably got a huge increase in her salary plus summers off.


3 posted on 05/10/2011 5:00:41 AM PDT by momtothree
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http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/05/chris_norby_orange_county_teac.php

[excerpt] ....Meanwhile, the leader of the Education Action Group blasts the CTA’s “State of Emergency” campaign for highlighting what he called unionized teachers’ “me-first mentality.”

“If California’s teachers unions were serious about taking action, they should concentrate their efforts on finding ways to reduce or eliminate some of the more expensive perks in school-employee contracts that have been bleeding the state’s schools to death for years,” Kyle Olson, the founder and CEO of the Muskegon, Michigan-based lobby, says in a statement issued Friday.

“Residents have realized that the union’s ‘me first’ mentality is a major reason why cuts to education are now necessary,” Olson continued. “The union-organized ‘Week of Action’ to protest the painful but necessary move only confirms that the teachers unions’ real motivation has little to do with educating the state’s youth.”

He accused state union officials of having “shrugged their shoulders when school districts across the state were forced to lay off smart, young educators so their more senior colleagues could receive the expensive union perks guaranteed in school-employee contracts.”

His group faults the CTA and its member associations for failing to negotiate concessions that could have public schools money and prevented many of the cuts now facing California educators. [end excerpt]


4 posted on 05/10/2011 5:04:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Graybeard58

She’s an attorney and decided to become a teacher? Something doesn’t smell quite right.

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Why not? Why would you be an atty when you can be a teacher and make 100k+ AND retire with a guaranteed lifetime income via pension of almost the same amount AND health benefits FREE for as long as you live for you AND your wife?


13 posted on 05/10/2011 6:03:44 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: Graybeard58
She's an attorney and decided to become a teacher? Something doesn't smell quite right.

Well easy. She's not exactly Rocket Scientist material.

"In my situation, you get a wonderful sub who couldn't get hired as a teacher, and you leave detailed lesson plans" for that person, said Laura Heidt, a second-grade teacher..."

She just told the world in a newspaper quote her job is so simple, any 'Wonderful person" could do it. Imagine that sharp whit defending you in court...

18 posted on 05/10/2011 6:50:23 AM PDT by kAcknor ("A pistol! Are you expecting trouble sir?" "No ma'am, were I expecting trouble I'd have a rifle.")
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