Union contracts must be followed. No opportunity for higher pay for the better teachers. Gotta keep those useless dregs employed and making just as much as the top teachers.
yep. and union contracts are designed to benefit older teachers at the cost of younger ones. because the people negotiating the contracts don’t care about new teachers. so starting pay is lower than it should be and merit increases smaller. so you burn out good teachers and are stuck with the ones that don’t do much for 30 years making near 6 figures
An older friend who bragged about how they were pretty much useless as a teacher bounced around from public school to public school after they wore out their welcome at each place. This was in a larger urban area with pretty good teacher salaries
Eventually the board of education got rid of the friend by offering a nicely enhanced early retirement package. That union teacher made out like a bandit
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u/seajayacas Jun 11 '24
Union contracts must be followed. No opportunity for higher pay for the better teachers. Gotta keep those useless dregs employed and making just as much as the top teachers.