Civil unions raping the tax payers.
It would be one thing if these teachers actually earned their pensions but their work product has resulted in dropping literacy rates.
You would not pay a plumber who does not fix your leak, why pay these teachers if they can’t teach?
Your point is well taken, but all teachers are not bad or lazy— but the system does not encourage the cream of the crop to go into or stay in teaching positions. Hence my other profession as an Engineer.
However, I agree with you. The pension is the topic here, but the level of integrity and skill in the teaching profession is not where it could be if teachers were allowed (and required) to contract with their districts every few years — and the pay set by the skill and work ethic demonstrated. I am talking about doing away with “tenure”.
People who realize how the system really works should be voting to change it. Why should a salary be equal for everyone with the same seniority? Why should it be so difficult to fire a teacher that it is almost never done?
And why, when a family has a choice between good and bad schools nearby should the bad school be left open?
BTW, I realize there are other factors — that the teacher’s union uses to hide behind — like parents and kids who do not care (or are not mature enough) to care. But the public can do something about the teachers. I do not know what a conservative can do to assist a failing parent. There has to be a limit to the power of government.