re: Going to be interesting start to the 2026-2027 school year…..

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Also factor in the results from the last few states that had statewide teacher strikes, I doubt blame them one bit

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From Google, regarding teacher retirements
In Louisiana, public school teachers must work for 30 years at any age to retire with unreduced, full pension benefits. Depending on your age, you can also retire with full pay with fewer years of service:25 years of service at age 55

Let's look at this thing in the big picture, from the average voter that doesn't know everything a teacher goes through.
The average person will think this. A person teaches school from 22-55 and retires with full pension benefits, and live until 80. So they work for 33 years, half the year, and get a check for 58 years, plus health care benefits. Oh, and they get off at 330 every day. Then this average person gets on social media or watches the news and all they hear is bitching. Most people are gonna just say frick yall, whatever yall want, I am doing the opposite.

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If you have a teacher who genuinely cares about their students, it’s not an easy job. Sure, it’s not physically demanding but having to deal with the stress of not being supported by powers that be and decision makers truly sucks.

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I have no doubt in my mind that the vast majority of teachers care about the students more than anything.

However, your wife, amongst other teachers, knew the pay before going in and the yearly continuous cycle of problems that will never go away. $2,500 or $25,000 will not solve those problems.