Next time the teachers snivel about a raise, show them this:

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Nothing I can think of off hand angers me more then government employees generally, or teachers specifically, bitching about their pay and benefits.

What these clowns signed up for wasn't sprung on them as some sort of surprise. They knew EXACTLY what they were going to get paid before they signed up.

And when you know what the pay is going to be and agree to that figure, then you really have no bitch coming... ESPECIALLY when your efforts result in this:

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By John Hechinger - Dec 7, 2010 9:04 AM PT

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Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the middle in science and reading, while China’s Shanghai topped the charts, raising concern that the U.S. isn’t prepared to succeed in the global economy.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, which represents 34 countries, today released the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment. For the first time, the test broke out the performance of China’s Shanghai region, which topped every country in all academic categories. The U.S. government considers the test one of the most comprehensive measures of international achievement.

The results show that U.S. students must improve to compete in a global
economy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said yesterday in a telephone interview. President Barack Obama’s administration is promoting national curriculum standards and a revamping of teacher pay that stresses performance rather than credentials and seniority.

“The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us
and improving more rapidly than we are,” Duncan said. “This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country.”

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It never ceases to amaze me how much teachers whine and complain about their pay... almost as if they had no idea WHAT they were going to make when they decided to BECOME teachers... and that, of course, applies to our now incredibly overpaid government workers at every level.

Combine these abysmal outcomes with an equally abysmal drop out rate (for which teachers never take any responsibility either, as far as that goes) and any reason to pay these people more disappears. In fact, we ought to be looking at CUTTING their pay based on their product.

Until we take over first place here, I wouldn't give teachers ANY raises. After all, what are they going to do... quit?

As for government employees, my 20% to 2005 or so pay scale and numbers idea is still on the table. Dude, we're in a horrific recession. And some of that bogus "shared sacrifice" our racist, anti-American racist bigot/clueless president has babbled about is called for.

Soon.

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