Wisconsin Teachers Bailout of Walker Hell! (salary, regular, cost, school)

[shintao]

LMAO! Here are those Union members the GOP is spouting left the Union!!

When students return Thursday for the first day of school across Wisconsin, many familiar faces will be gone, as teachers chose retirement over coming back in the wake of a new law that forces them to pay more for benefits while taking away most of their collective bargaining rights.
Documents obtained by the Associated Press under the state’s open records law show that about twice as many public school teachers decided to hang it up in the first half of this year as in each of the past two full years, part of a mass exit of public employees.

Their departures came before the new law took effect, changes pushed by Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican Legislature that led to weeks of protests at the Capitol.

The ensuing exodus of teachers and other state employees has led to fears that the jobs might not be filled, and that classroom leadership by veteran teachers will be lost.

Ginny Fleck, a German teacher from Green Bay with 30 years of experience, is among nearly 5,000 teachers who retired.

“It wouldn’t make sense for me to teach one more year and basically lose $8,000,” she said. Fleck, 69, decided to retire in February, even before the bill became law, in part because of the hit she would take to her $60,000 annual salary, and because of other changes the district was making.

In the first six months of 2011, overall public employee retirements were double that in all of either 2009 or 2010, according to data provided to the AP by the Wisconsin Retirement System. That includes 4,935 Wisconsin school district employees who started receiving retirement benefits, up from 2,527 teacher retirements in all of 2010 and 2,417 in 2009.

Teachers weren’t the only ones heading for the exits.
Wisconsin teacher retirements double after cuts to benefits and collective bargaining | eSchool News

[stillkit]

No problem. That's a Republican state so they'll just outsource education to some of their corporate buddies who will bring in low pay, foreign "teachers" to manage the classrooms.

[monkeywrenching]

Originally Posted by stillkit

No problem. That's a Republican state so they'll just outsource education to some of their corporate buddies who will bring in low pay, foreign "teachers" to manage the classrooms.

maybe our students will then get an education instead of having the teachers asking for more benefits by raising the taxpayers taxes.

[shintao]

Originally Posted by stillkit

No problem. That's a Republican state so they'll just outsource education to some of their corporate buddies who will bring in low pay, foreign "teachers" to manage the classrooms.

I think Wisconsin is going to provide a good test tube example of what went wrong with American education. LOL!!

[pknopp]

This is great for the economy. That opens up a lot of jobs for new teachers.

[KUchief25]

Your link is from the start of the last school year. Are you loons that lost still???

[monkeywrenching]

Originally Posted by shintao

I think Wisconsin is going to provide a good test tube example of what went wrong with American education. LOL!!

doubtful. if you want to see what is wrong with american education in public schools, all you have to do is look at californias education system.

[CharlottePirate05]

Originally Posted by pknopp

This is great for the economy. That opens up a lot of jobs for new teachers.

Exactly.

Now all those recent grads that are looking for jobs can get them, at a lower cost to the state as well (entry level teacher's salary)

Win - win.

[North Beach Person]

As far as foreign teachers go MD, one of the bluest of the blue states, has thousands of foreign born teachers, mostly from the Phillipines.

My system was banned from recruiting outside the US last year due to "irregularities" in the recruiting process and violation of various immigration laws.

[brentwoodgirl]

Your link is a year old. The teachers retired before the 2011 school year started. Guess the Wisconsin families like the new teachers better. Walker won the recall by more than his original election.

Thanks for playing.