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Oh ok. Didn't realize you were responding.
And yes I agree. I can't believe that a 16% raise is not good enough. 16% in these time isn't good enough. I had to read that twice as I thought it was a typo.
No one has responded to your multiple posts about the city being flat broke. That's really what it's all about.
If you're broke, you can't give a raise. It's not that hard to understand.
No one has responded to your multiple posts about the city being flat broke. That's really what it's all about.
If you're broke, you can't give a raise. It's not that hard to understand.
But they got raises. It isn't supposed to be money for their own pockets that they are striking for. It is this kind of strike that I never liked teacher unions for.
No one has responded to your multiple posts about the city being flat broke. That's really what it's all about.
If you're broke, you can't give a raise. It's not that hard to understand.
For some reason the left don't want to deal with the "no more money" issue.
I also noticed that my posts about the financial situation got skipped over.
I must say that if any district in Florida offered its teachers a 16% salary increase over 3 years, teachers in that district would be dancing in the streets.
Miami-Dade teachers haven't seen a salary increase in 4 years...and there's no hope for one in the foreseeable future.
Unless you are a teacher you have no idea what teachers deal with on a day to day basis. Why anyone would want to become a teacher with the low pay they receive is beyond me. Teachers don't get into this profession to become rich. They do it because they care. But no one seems to appreciate them and just blame them for everything.
It is difficult for a parent working a job without the benefits and tenure protection of a teaching job in Chicago to be sympathetic.
Romney would do well to say he is carefully looking at this issue. Rahter than make sweeping comments that show him up to be woefully uninformed about education in this country. Chicago is a microcosm of our country's problems with education.
Romney, once again ... doesn't know what he's talking about. The teachers have seemed to acted very responsibly. Just one example: an independent arbitrator ruled the city was obligated to increase their pay so substantially high, that they were entited to the higher wages because of abuses fostered by the Chicago Board of Education and for other factors, that the Union turned this down because of the financial burden it would place on the city. The teachers won their arbitration. Hands down. They and the city have been involved in honest collective bargaining. The City and its taxpayers have their financial problems. The teachers are entitled to more. Let the collective bargaining system work, as the law provides for. First and foremost, I think the teachers have had the children's interests amongst the most important they're dealing with. The people who care for and teach our children are important. That's where Willard Romney and I disagree. I believe education is important.
Another tough choice for Obama. Unions or the kids
He will get back to you after his meeting on the iPad.
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