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Originally Posted by GGG
My objection is that people salivate over the teachers pension plan and use that as a reason they shouldn’t be paid more. It’s a trope based on a misunderstanding of the cost of that pension.
Your first line should be teachers have so much vacation and a pension that no one else has access to even though I known nothing about the actual details and don’t save nearly as much so they don’t deserve more money.
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It's nothing but greed. People 100% see someone with a nice pension and benefits and assume it is undeserved, overly generous, and know nothing about the true employer cost. Ironically, these same people sure like to make a point of twisting a knife about it and "summers off" while turning a blind eye to the yearly or quarterly bonus cheques they or their spouse rake in from the private sector and vacation time nearly anytime of the year that teachers cannot take.
The entire reason the ATA pension exists is to keep good teachers in the profession when they would have otherwise burnt out and left. UCP sympathizers and those who can't care less about the state of education in this province should remember that when they get on their soap box about wages and ignore poor classroom conditions relative to other provinces.
If people don't see that improving education funding, and yes, a quality raise for teachers, raises the bar for everyone in the province they should probably just put their heads back in the sand.