Teachers mad at JBE because he isn't pushing another raise

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Teachers mortgaging this state because of a politician that “values them” by promising a mediocre raise reneges on said raise as soon as he’s elected?

Just hate to see it.

They deserve a raise for having to deal with these kids and parents.

Is Edwards a lame duck?

My wife is a teacher and got this raise (I did too, as support staff).
She's making $20 less a month bc of how they taxed the raise

She's pissed

What kind of bitching are you talking about? Yea, I get pretty tired of hearing people like Bernie insisting that we set a price floor of 60K for every teacher.


But virtually every professional in this country gets at least a cost of living adjustment. That teachers so rarely do gives them pretty good reason to bitch as far as I can tell.

Unfortunately, teachers need to understand that JBE has no plan to generate state revenue much less distribute teacher pay raises. He’s a trial lawyer.

Sorry, but educators DO deserve better. Next time ask HOW before placing your vote. Do YOUR homework.

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The value of any position is largely based on replacement value.

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Ding ding ding

It is not hard to become a teacher and there is a massive pool of replacements, if needed.

Teachers aren’t paid more because their individual value is low and they are easily replaceable.

Make it harder to be a teacher and the pay will increase.

Replacing the best teachers is extremely difficult. When they are truly good at what they do, they offer an immense value that simply can’t be replicated by an average Joe off the street.



THAT SAID, the teachers unions have fricked those people by mandating that all teachers earn the same. Because of that, there’s very little reason for those truly great teachers to stick around in the field, which makes it so that a larger portion of the teaching population falls into that ‘easy to replace’ category.


Everything about the schooling market is broken. We need to bring merit pay and student choice to the system or any changes made will be marginal at best.

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