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7 years? I dont think that is all required. To enhance your standing, maybe, but not required. What do you think you should make? Did you not know the prevailing wage scale and the benefit package when you went into your field? I would think that anyone smart enough to determine that they can instuct others would be smart enough to know what they are getting into, but that just my opinion. There had to be some reason for choosing your profession. Could it be the relatively good wages based on hours worked? Every weekend off? Every holiday off? A good retirement package? Perhaps it's the 3 months summer vacation, along with the weeks vacation in the fall, the 3 weeks vacation at Christmas and another vacation week in the spring? Perhaps all of the above? I think that Oldschool touched on the days teachers report to their classrooms vs. the average private sector employee.


So are you comparing and justifying the teaching profession as a subsitute for paying a baby sitter? Surely you didn't just imply that? If so, I think you just made "a case in point" statement.


As for making more by being innovative and perhaps making more money doing something on your own, are you also prepared to risk it all to a potential total loss as a possible consequence as well?. It works that way too. Far more often than receiving the windfall version, I might add.

For what it's worth, I dont have a problem with teachers getting what they get right now, I just dont think a tax paying community should be subjected to walkout and strike tactics. Again, just my opinion. I stress again, to try it in the other world, and see how that world is living right now. The ones paying your wages are conceeding every where they turn around. Do state and federal employees receive a special gift from God that they are exempt from the trials, challanges and consessions than those that are footing the bill ?

What would you have teachers to do when they see a 5% reduction in SEEK funding? To give you an idea, the county in which I live has three school systems, one school would face $50,000 dollar short fall, or one teacher, the second district would lose $90,000, basically two teachers, and the third district would lose close to $1 million dollars. A lot of teachers. That is only in one county, times that by every county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

But here is the kicker to it all, the money that is going to be cut is to pay medicaide... so the doctors, lawyers, and so forth will get paid, because we are going to cover that, and continue to make sure that our people live in bondage, because they don't know anything else.

I would bet you would fight for your job as well as most people. So going on strike, is the only chip we have.

Notice I have talked about collective barginning, which our Commonwealth does not have. I have not even talked about taking a pay cut, no, I am talking about people losing their jobs so someone can spend more time in an emergency room, get free food, get high, have more babies, etc. ( I don't think all people that receive medicaide is like this either, but since teachers unions get lumped together across the U.S. I figure I would). That to me is not right. What do you think?