Look, they have decent benefits but the should. The importance of teachers in society is extremely high and isn’t education supposed to be the main focus of children? Aren’t we supposed to make education better? And what are they asking for? They had a pension (which they pay into) and Bevin is trying to take that away. So you’re telling me a 401k is a viable retirement option for teachers whose average ceiling isn’t very high unless they get a freaking doctorate degree (and it still isn’t high as you’d think) ? The education in Kentucky ranks as one of the lowest year in and year out already. Ironic, as far as cuts in education across the country, Kentucky has had the third highest percentage of cuts in the past few years, NATIONALLY in a state that already consistently struggles in education. So cutting more is going to improve education? Meanwhile teachers are in the epicenter of the middle class which is shrinking and you attack them? All the while teachers have to get a masters degree and most get a second masters but you think they have all they could possibly want and need.
People need to look at things through a different lense if they want change and improvement. You can’t have improved education if you keep cutting education funds and make it less desirable for someone to follow that career path while also saying we need better teachers. It’s hypocritical and also blatantly ignorant. Bevin called them thugs because they didn’t want their benefits cut. They weren’t asking for anything. Bevin was taking something they already had promised. Believe me, there’s plenty more cuts and things that could happen to save this state money and some of the adjustments left out of the final bill are the ones that helped fix the pension crisis more than what he tried and is trying to take away.
Bottom line, as many have said, legalize pot, legalize casinos in Kentucky and the pension will be fixed. We already gamble on horses and go to many casinos that were conveniently placed on or near Kentucky borders all that money is being lost and for what reason? Ethics? Morals? Values? Gimme a break. It’s all bs and Bevin is a buffoon.
If you blame teachers for the pension crisis then you are a fool. Just like social security, social security was set up and paid into by the people, and then the government starting using those funds to pay for other things, didn’t pay it back and then now act like we may not be able to have social security anymore. That my friend is called theft. If I was a bank, had you put money in it and then took your money and told you, sorry, you don’t have any money anymore, that would be theft.
It’s incredible and baffling that people defend this moron sociopath. All because they’re political party is the same as his. That’s the same reason this entire country is in the shape it is, no matter of your a republican or a Democrat. I can’t stand trump and truthfully, Hillary was over on the left breaking campaign laws as well. It’s crazy that they have us all against each other while distracting us from what’s really going on.