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Cool I guess you’re going on another exotic vacation for the week.Statewide teacher’s strike.
Cool I guess you’re going on another exotic vacation for the week.
It must be nice to just be able to not go to work
Those 8-month years must be getting tiresome, especially when you don't get off until 3:30 every day.
Not true. Teachers rarely get off, unless they're fondling one of their students.Those 8-month years must be getting tiresome, especially when you don't get off until 3:30 every day.
What do they want now? This is going to start making a lot of people angry.
so, you're one of those. work 180 days a year less a month's vacation.Actually Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, and St. Maarten in April.
Aren’t you a banker? Lol.
Yeah, wonder if the teachers get a $700 billion bail out.
All because you don’t like competition?The thing is the teachers never asked for a thing. The payraises and some silly bonus for attendance was placed in an omnibus bill with charter schools, educational spending accounts, and removing a teacher’s right to strike. The 5% payraises and $1000/$500 bonus for missing less than 4 day’s was thrown in but never asked for. The teachers are essentially fighting a bill that would give them a raise.
Yeah, and last time I checked I work year round and don't get home until (at least) 6:00 pm every night. That's after getting to the office at 7:45 am. Never mind the after hours events I have to attend, the 3-4 hour work travel that gets me home at 10 pm sometimes, or the 3-4 nights in a row I have meetings out of town. Or the constant calls and texts over the weekend from my clients.
Yeah, I'm a banker.
Yeah, and last time I checked I work year round and don't get home until (at least) 6:00 pm every night. That's after getting to the office at 7:45 am. Never mind the after hours events I have to attend, the 3-4 hour work travel that gets me home at 10 pm sometimes, or the 3-4 nights in a row I have meetings out of town. Or the constant calls and texts over the weekend from my clients.
Yeah, I'm a banker.
Yeah, and last time I checked I work year round and don't get home until (at least) 6:00 pm every night. That's after getting to the office at 7:45 am. Never mind the after hours events I have to attend, the 3-4 hour work travel that gets me home at 10 pm sometimes, or the 3-4 nights in a row I have meetings out of town. Or the constant calls and texts over the weekend from my clients.
Yeah, I'm a banker.
I mean...you get home at 6:00? Dang...sign me up.
And you get compensated far more than a teacher does for it. You probably make as much or more than a teacher who has a master's and 25 years of experience.
Find any other person with a master's in their field and 25+ years of experience who makes less than a teacher.
Are teachers not aware of their pay scale, benefits, etc before taking a job, just like everybody else on earth? You all use that argument like teachers are shocked to learn that their pay is so low, only after they get their first paycheck.
Yeah, prior to working most evenings from home after taking care of the kids while my wife works 15 hour days at the hospital. I know you're self employed, so don't act like the average teacher works more than 8-9 months per year, at most.
they don't need to ask because they get a raise every year.In that case, don't ever ask for a promotion or a raise. Teachers aren't able to do that. No matter how well they perform, how hard they work, how much they have to pay out of their own pocket, how much their benefits change against them, etc., they don't have the ability to ask for a raise, get reimbursed, or get promoted.
The system has made it so hard for that to change, even when other things change against them, that they don't have much recourse to get immediate results except for striking.
they don't need to ask because they get a raise every year.
You bring up a great point. Let’s send the kids year round. I’m in. Let’s see...that will add two months to my pay...dang, that would add $10,000 to my pay. That would boost my retirement income since they take the last five years average.
Oh by the way...in many versions of the bills that are being kicked around, authority to raise county levy rates would go to the board of education without having to be voted on. I’m sure you’re for that since the teachers have been fighting the bill that includes it.
“Levy Rates (§11-8-6f) Allows county Board of Education to vote annually to increase their maximum levy rate up to a specific statutory maximum amount. (The WVBE endorsed this measure provided that no school district receive a loss in state funding).”
And you must be for the pay raise and bonus for missing less than four days too, right? Teachers were fighting a bill that include a pay raise. Them damn lazy teachers.
But of course above you said...”What do they want now?” You didn’t even know what was involved but you knew you were against the teachers. Lol.
they don't need to ask because they get a raise every year.
In that case, don't ever ask for a promotion or a raise. Teachers aren't able to do that. No matter how well they perform, how hard they work, how much they have to pay out of their own pocket, how much their benefits change against them, etc., they don't have the ability to ask for a raise, get reimbursed, or get promoted.
The system has made it so hard for that to change, even when other things change against them, that they don't have much recourse to get immediate results except for striking.
I’d love that much of a raise. After inflation, increase costs of benefits going up I end up losing money on my “raise”. And trust me my benefits cost way more than peia and aren’t near as generousYes, the 1% - 1.5% raise they get each year that doesn't even keep up with the inflation percent or any other cost in living for the region.
And you get compensated far more than a teacher does for it. You probably make as much or more than a teacher who has a master's and 25 years of experience.
Find any other person with a master's in their field and 25+ years of experience who makes less than a teacher.
And you get compensated far more than a teacher does for it. You probably make as much or more than a teacher who has a master's and 25 years of experience.
Find any other person with a master's in their field and 25+ years of experience who makes less than a teacher.
he might be the sane one of the bunch.Will Richie Ojeda lead the line dancing again this year.
Lol. Prove me wrong.Lol. Not much for facts are you.
You’d have to work another 25 years to work the hours I’ve worked.
I realize preachers only work an hour a week
But seriously I bet I've worked every day this year...