Attack on Teachers

Wisconsin teachers have sharply criticized the Koch's puppet's attempt to slash the budget to their detriment.

This person hits the whole thing on the head:

A retired public employee who worked at Department of Transportation told the WSWS, “We’re here to defend workers’ rights. If they take teachers’ collective bargaining rights they are going to pay for the $1 billion in cuts by throwing out the older, higher paid teachers. Why pay $45,000 for an older teacher when you can hire someone for $15,000? We have grandchildren in the public schools and they are going to affected.

“Public employees haven’t had a raise in ten years. The former governor [Democrat Jim Doyle] imposed furloughs. My daughter and son-in-law are both public employees. If they have to pay more for health care and pension benefits it will cost them $600 a month. They’re already paying $1,600 for childcare every month. At the same time they are giving tax cuts to the richest two percent in America.”

That's IF anybody is stupid enough to waste the time and money to go to college to go into a job that one can't ever make a career out of. Unless one becomes a crooked administrator.

Of course the more expensive hires will always be tossed out. Experienced always does mean better than some newbie when it comes to education or to any other occupation. But the older teachers who may not have as many years in are also seen as too expensive because of health insurance concerns. They also aren't as easy to "mold" into some complaint teacher to take shit from a stupid principal, and most of them ARE stupid.