On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:33:19 -0500, Keyser Söze
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:56:26 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 11/27/15 12:42 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:02:23 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:38:18 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:23:43 -0500,
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:12:53 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

The teachers
were not looking for anything massive, but the law said there had to be
good faith negotiations...and the strikes helped make that happen.

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Unions willing to break the law are guilty of extortion. Teachers
work hard for their money but salaries, and paticularly benefits, have
gotten out of line with private industry. This will cause a major
crisis at some point and force many local school districts into
bankruptcy.

I am not even upset at teacher salaries and benefits. What ****es me
off is they can't get rid of bad teachers, pay is not tied to
performance and the administration siphons 60% of the money away
before it ever trickles down to the actual classroom.

Sounds like you've been there and done that. You are correct.

A few years ago I did go through the school board budget, pretty much
line for line and developed a summary of where the money was going.
Then I compared that to a few other places.
The striking thing was how much of the money is going to things that
are not really education related.
In defense of the teachers themselves, I would say, they will not make
any real money in the classroom compared to what they can make if they
move downtown to the administration office.
Now you end up with a teacher who we may have been better off keeping
in the classroom, being a mediocre administrator but that is how the
career path is structured. You can't get a serious administrative job
without being a teacher.

It is an entirely different skill set.

Charter schools are starting to demonstrate the flaws in the way we
run school systems, even though they are running with ankle weights.



Good grief. You went through a local school board budget and proclaimed
yourself an expert.

Hehehe.

It is simple math and math is a pure science.

...but you know that.

It is a simple fact that you can put a kid in the best secular private
school in Lee County for what the school board is spending on them.



That you can do simple math doesn't mean you understand a school budget,
but of course you are the world's greatest living expert.

It is not hard to understand when they break out where the money is
being spent. I am sorry that you underestimate the abilities of people
you disagree with but that does not make them wrong.