We might have to *gasp* HOME SCHOOL (only the best educated and most measurably intelligent cohort).
The fewer socialists we have indoctrinating our children, the better the possible results.
We shouldn’t have teacher layoffs, just administrator layoffs. Each administrator costs 2x each teacher and produces nothing of value.
He takes 5 minutes off to deliver a threat to Congress, then it’s off to more fund raising, or golf...whichever comes first. What a work ethic.
Obama, you have spent your way into this.
FU
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It’s a lie to get us to allow a tax increase. Teachers are public employees and they have a massive union. They must be subject to layoffs just like “the people”.
It’s the spending stupid!
Delicate moment for the recovery? Why be delicate? The recovery, if there ever was one, is dead.
I'm sure those numbers are easily verified (rolling eyes)
Maybe if pay and benes were brought into line w reality with exoconic conditions, there would not be the need for layoffs.
Or better yet, if the economy were doing fine as Obozo claims, tax recipets would be increasing to support the payroll.
Obama = FNG MORON
In my book, this day and age with administration-brain washed educators, this is a GOOD thing. The less your children are influenced by zealots the better.
He throws numbers around like frisbees on a Malibu beach,with no concern for where they land. The 250K number in three years is 83K a year out of 2 million teachers. How many of those are retirees who were simply not replaced? In NYC there has been a quasi hiring freeze for the last three years, but no layoffs, though Bloomie keeps threatening. The schools lose 3 to 5 thousand teachers to retirement and resignations a year. Less than half are replaced.A retiree does not add to the unemployment numbers unless they do something like work at Barnes and Noble and cause a younger worker to be laid off. There are 23 million unemployed. Spending tax$$$ to keep 250K in their jobs,even if they all were actual lay offs,represents less than 1% of the unemployed. Not a lot of bang for the buck.
Who here on FR is old enough to remember the term: “Featherbedding” on the railroads???
IMO, teachers have been ‘feathbedding’ for years with complaining on the sizes of classes & they keep trying to convince parents today that if they have ‘only 20’ or ‘only 15’ or fewer kids in their classes, everything will be unicorns & rainbows.
I was raised in a small rural town.
We averaged 32-36 in our high school classes, and about the same in the 8th grade I attended. Prior to that, I was in a one room school with 14 kids, 8 grades & 1 teacher who had only 2 years of college.
I’ll put my fellow classmates up against any other school you can name, with their overall smarts & successes thru life.
Now that taxpayers & SOME politicians are getting the message that having tons of teachers in the schools doesn’t get your little Johnny or Susi a decent education. preparing them for adult life.
Get back to the basics-—
Toss out the teachers ‘union’-—
Teach kids about real life-—
Then we might have a chance to employ someone useful.
Since when did paying the salaries of California teachers become the business of the Federal Government? Each state has a system of education set up, correct? Then allow the states to maintain the education system within its state without Federal Government interference. Holy Crap the Federal Department of Education was set up under Jimmy Carter, not George Washington.
Stop forcing states to collect union dues for the teachers unions and no teacher layoffs will be required.
Our district has threatened layoffs every year for 30 years...and yet every year they miraculously manage to balance the budget and escape layoffs. Very strange how that works. Snark...
Uh, huh. And what happens when that $$ runs out? Well, another bailout. And after that? Is the Federal Government going to permanently be in the business of funding state and local education? And who will pay the pensions for these excess teachers when they retire?
Fixed it.