Posted on 06/09/2012 8:47:20 AM PDT by ColdOne
Teachers will be fired... if taxes aren’t raised Obama?? Sorry... we homeschool
They don’t have to lay off teachers. They can peel off layers and layers of administration and special services uneducators.
Here’s just one exeucitive layer -special education - for the Boston Public schools system.
http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/department/special-education-and-student-services
Teachers are incredibly expensive here in NJ; administrators are as well, but there are less of them and they aren’t unionized. Teachers have been granted compensation that there is no possible way to meet; such future costs make states uncompetitive because of that built-in burden (in much the same way retirees’ benefits killed Detroit - Japanese companies weren’t saddled with such costs).
Most tenured teachers don’t produce anything of value, either; our students are not very educated.
Teachers don’t just have a massive union; they have their own political party. The “Democratic Party” is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the teachers’ unions, and Obama advocating for them while their employers (the American people) are being ground up by this economy is all the proof that you need.
Governor Walker’s recall issue did what Governor Christie did for NJ; it alerted people to just how much teachers were earning, and how much they would continue to earn when they retired. The unions were stupid to pick the fights with both of those governors; while the teachers’ unions’ media tried to muddy the issue by mentioning “unions” without “public sector” preceding it, it didn’t fool the private sector union members (many of whom supported Walker in the recall vote).
Here in NJ many non-teachers were already let go (because they weren’t unionized or tenured); after they went through them it was the turn of the cops & firemen (weaker unions, I guess). Schools are sharing nurses and such.
The problem is that we now have a 2% property tax cap (that is how our teachers are paid), so when they get a 4% raise other municipal workers lose their jobs. We’ve cut the “fat” here, and the homeowners still can’t afford the public school system, so it is time to cut more teachers.
Here in NJ the big scam is bilingual education; it basically doubles the number of employees for each grade (not just teachers, but “teacher assistantss”). WTH is a teacher assistant? I always had one teacher, regardless of class size.
Special education requires a teacher's aide. If you have special ed students mainstreamed into that classroom, then there will be an aide at least part of the time. Of course, it's discriminatory if you know which student(s) they are supposed to be working with.
I understand in the context of special education; I believe here in NJ most classrooms have a teacher assistant.
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