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Nation's Largest Union Sets Goal of $40,000 Starting Salary for Teachers
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Posted on 07/03/2005 2:20:12 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
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To: TheOtherOne
If the public education system were doing a good job with all the money that's thrown at them we would be a well educated society with a corresponding national wealth that would allow higher pay for teachers and all other professions and occupations.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:26:01 PM PDT
by
Kenny500c
To: TheOtherOne
My bet is, of course, that they've set their target at $40,000 per year and that will be the new base on which union dues are calculated. The dems are despirate for cash and increasing the dues is the best way to get it, less, of course, the cut that the union officers usually take.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:26:23 PM PDT
by
Tacis
("Democrats - The Party of Traitors, Treachery and Treason!")
To: Kenny500c
Yep! Gotta be right thing to do. Look how the TSA (airport security)has improved since they got big raises and gubmint benefits.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:27:58 PM PDT
by
litehaus
To: Kenny500c
Wash DC spends $15,000. per student--
Pay the Teachers 15,000. until they show that students can read and write ENGLISH>
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:28:35 PM PDT
by
Zenith
To: TheOtherOne
" 'The issue is where the money is going to come from," Weaver said. "And to respond to that, my answer is I don't care.'"
Wow - says it all.
AFT gets 1% of each teacher's pay check. So they are NOT an impartial observer where salary increases are at issue.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:30:37 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of too much liberty, than too little. Tom Jefferson)
To: TheOtherOne
$40K is just a drop in the bucket. These poor people need $66,666,66 just to break even. After all, it's for the children, isn't it?
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:33:25 PM PDT
by
hkp037
To: 4Liberty
Weaver, poised to begin his second three-year term as the union's president, said higher pay for veteran teachers and classroom aides will also be a political priority for the NEA. Wonder what his salary is?
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:35:49 PM PDT
by
neodad
(I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way)
To: TheOtherOne
Very simple, just drop the pension programs and let them pay into their own 401Ks. The pension programs are what drive costs up, and they commit taxpayers decades later.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:35:51 PM PDT
by
sittnick
(here's no salvation in politics.)
To: Kenny500c
Since so many teachers get their diplomas from state-run "teachers colleges," they can pay back their total student loans in one year with just a $30,000 paycheck and have money left over. How nice for them. Of course, the taxpayers have already paid for the teachers' education, so I think that all those who attended taxpayer colleges should be taxed higher to show their gratitude.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:36:45 PM PDT
by
kitkat
To: TheOtherOne
I am waiting for the NEA to run a comparison of pay in private schools -- all private schools, not just the silver spoon ones.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:38:50 PM PDT
by
sphinx
To: TheOtherOne
That's funny.
The Hawaii State Teachers' Association (NEA) keeps claiming that all the other states pay their teachers an average of $100,000 -- we need to pay ours twice that just to keep up -- because of the highest cost of living in the world!
The AP writer must be wrong.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:39:02 PM PDT
by
MikeHu
To: Zenith
$15,000 per student is outrageous. Private schools do it for much less per student. The unions are sucking the money for their liberal pet political projects, which is all our taxes, usually via property taxes. How many times do you read a story where the school cuts music, but just hired a new grief counselor? The school boards are always asking for referendums for increased taxes. The gov should get out of education and let private enterprise take over. Good competition is what it will take for the public systems to wake up. If the schools focused teaching kids the basics, math, English, history, etc. instead of all the feel good liberal social programs, like how to wear a condom, or Adam and Steve are a family too, maybe they'd deserve a raise. The district near here gives the teachers 100% health benefits, 3 months off, and they still moan and groan they aren't getting enough.
To: TheOtherOne
Good idea, in and in an exchange for dumping tenure protection, and a merit pay scale.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:40:18 PM PDT
by
Torie
(Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
To: neodad
>"Wonder what his salary is?"<
Too much.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:41:48 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of too much liberty, than too little. Tom Jefferson)
To: Zenith
***Pay the Teachers 15,000. until they show that students can read and write ENGLISH***
During publicity over how ridiculously easy the teacher's exam is to pass, a teacher from a nearby city wrote to the paper to protest. She started out by saying, "I and my colleagues..." and followed that up with other obvious mistakes in grammar. So from whom will our children learn to speak and write English correctly?
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:42:00 PM PDT
by
kitkat
To: sphinx
Hell will freeze over before that happens (i.e., before unions run an efficiency report, with private vs public institutions examined, side by side.)
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:43:19 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences of too much liberty, than too little. Tom Jefferson)
To: TheOtherOne
How about this for a goal........
Kids can read, write,and do arithmetic by the third grade.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:45:14 PM PDT
by
OldFriend
(AMERICAN WARS SET MEN FREE)
To: sphinx
I am waiting for the NEA to run a comparison of pay in private schools -- all private schools, not just the silver spoon ones.
The pay in the "silver spoon" ones is crappy, too. I went to a middle of the road prep school (Cheshire, CT), but the teachers at Choate School in my home town of Wallingford, CT weren't paid well, either. Plus, they often get to be hall monitors, coaches on the side, etc. Some of them did get nice little houses provided, though.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:46:37 PM PDT
by
sittnick
(here's no salvation in politics.)
To: MikeHu
While the cost of living for everybody else is the same, the cost of living for teachers is ten times as high -- and needs to be adjusted accordingly -- according to our newspaper writers.
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posted on
07/03/2005 2:49:30 PM PDT
by
MikeHu
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