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Post by Dustin on Mar 15, 2011 23:46:21 GMT -4
I found out that my probationary contract in the school district I work for will be terminated after three years of service due to the budget crisis. It's projected 100,000 teachers could be let go for the 11/12 year due to a 9 billion dollar cut to public education. I pray this won't last too long as teaching is all I know/my profession.
So, I finish this year out and my last paycheck is in August. This summer my wife and I are moving into her parents so I can pay off my credit cards with my May/June/July paychecks. Then we'll move back to our school apartment for her to finish school in May. I'm going to have to get on unemployment. Hopefully the wife and I will make it until the education budget comes back around.
I am thankful we have our families to help.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2011 0:17:30 GMT -4
Wow, that sucks. It's a good thing your families can help out, though.
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Post by Dustin on Mar 16, 2011 0:40:35 GMT -4
Yeah, Gov. Rick Perry doesn't want to take Federal money because I can't spend it the way he wants, nor is he going to use any of the rainy day fund. What is a rainy day fund for? Duh, a rainy day. When they're planning to cut 9.8 billion dollars in public education, there's going to be a lot of teachers without jobs... and the kids are going to suffer.
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Post by MT on Mar 16, 2011 0:50:49 GMT -4
How many young teachers like you are having to be let go to pay for every old, passionless fossil who gets paid two-three times your salary and knows they don't have to do a thing and can't be fired because of tenure? I've seen this happen to people I know in the town where I live, too. The old teachers hang on a few more years, get a big fat retirement, and there'll be no one any good there to take their place because all of the young, qualified teachers will have been driven away. This is the other shoe dropping in that hot button public sector union debate. This is the real human element and I feel for you. Sincerely I do. As long as things remain as they are today this is not going to get any better.
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Post by wildfire on Mar 16, 2011 12:24:52 GMT -4
Too bad we can't take some of the 9 billion the NFL owners and players are fightin' over and send it that way.... sad the way the world works.
Hope it works out for ya.
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Post by jasonjaconetti on Mar 16, 2011 12:34:19 GMT -4
Our district is cutting 13.5 to 17 teaching postions this year alone (about $3 - $4 million), while the past 2 years our budget has been a total of $4 million under budget...and we have $12 to $20 million in the reserves for "emergencies" on top of the unaccounted for $4 million. But no one wants to talk about the fact that firing teachers and cutting programs hurts the school and we get NO state aid b/c we have money in reserves so we don't qualify. (Our state aid WOULD be about $2 million).
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Post by MT on Mar 16, 2011 20:13:49 GMT -4
You guys talk about using "emergency funds" to pay teachers, but what happens when that runs out? All you'd be doing is kicking the problem down the road another year or two. That's not the answer. I'm sorry to put it that way, but it's the truth. The real underlying problems are systemic and they aren't going away until they get addressed. It's like the athlete who keeps taking pain killers instead of fixing the injury; you're just masking pain, not taking care of the problem.
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