re: No raise for teachers & Judges have to retire @ 70 years of age

The public schools are woke and suck.


Private/parochial is not what it used to be or should be.

They went to 4 fricken days a week.


We have had to resort to home school.

So, I already pay a shitload of taxes and get nothing in return.


Why the hell would I vote for an increase?

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The funding would have come from constitutionally protected education trust funds.

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You dont even know what these funds were set up for. In fact, teachers dont even know, thats why there is so much money in them. Just sitting there, unused

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The funds are constitutionally protected and have balances of approximately $2 billion — the Education Excellence Fund, and the Louisiana Quality Education Trust Fund.

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Education Excellence Fund - proceeds from the tobacco settlement. 85% of the appropriation is distributed to local school systems and charter schools based on the most recent Minimum Foundation Program. 15% of the appropriation is distributed to non-public schools

Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund - endowment of chairs for eminent scholars, enhancement of the quality of academic, research, or agricultural within a community college, college, or university, recruitment of superior graduate students, provide compensation to school board professional instructional employees, ensure an adequate supply of superior textbooks, library books, and equipment, to fund elementary and secondary student academic achievement, or vocational-technical skill, fund summer school remediation programs and preschool programs, fund the teaching of foreign languages in schools, fund scholarships or stipends to prospective teachers in critical teacher shortage area

AKA as grant money. Which teachers were no longer writing grants for

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There are some really bad educators out there. But you won’t improve the caliber of candidate, or the level of motivation for entering the field, by grossly underpaying the people who perform the job.

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When you consider a large number of people send their kids to private school in Baton Rouge because the current public school system is a zoo, then you might understand people's trepidation for rewarding incompetency.

FWIW, i voted for the amendment, as i have a nephew who is a public school teacher. But even he laughs at the bullshite articles stating Louisiana public schools are now near top of the country or whatever the propaganda was.

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We pay enough in taxes. I’m not opposed to paying teachers more but take it from somewhere else. We don’t need to be taxed any more than we already are now.

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This is 1000% truth. Louisiana state government can very easily give teachers a pay raise. They'd just have to eliminate or downsize several of the many redundant, fraudulent, and/or useless programs/positions to do so. You think that will happen soon? Government is never your friend.

Thank you. Some people do not understand what the fund is for.

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....and rightfully so. Football coaches spend more time at school during football season and also they spend more time with their players than their kids.

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They’re actually one of the most underpaid professionals in our country.

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Nah. It's a 3/4-time job. It's not a full time job. And it's a government job.

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Considering their responsibilities, what they’re tasked with and do (and deal with) on a daily basis, and what they’re paid, it’s a wonder we have anyone left who still wants to do it.

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There will always be people who are up for 16 weeks PTO, off by 3:00-3:30 every day, government holidays, and government (early) retirement and benefits.

Hardly any government employees get rich on the salary. People do it for the other benefits.

And studies have shown that teachers are no more likely to take work home than their middle management private sector counterparts, before you start with the "grading papers at home" trope.

BS, if they would leave their politics at home, maybe they would be better appreciated.

When you fail teaching reading and math, because you are hell bent on politics, you are not a teacher. You are a fool. I hire builders and trades. Fail at the job, hit the streets. Where you belong.