Quote Originally Posted by mattiooo View Post
My son is off tomorrow. I have no problem with teachers trying to protect their living. I think it's horrible that the people we entrust our kids to for half a day and the devolpment of their future aren't among the highest paid of the professions. I would rather have the very best for my kids, even if my taxes are a little higher because of it.
If a bunch of millionaire asshole sports players can strike for MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL...so can teachers.

I'm absolutely disgusted by that Republican Senate asshole here in our legislator who was trying to pass a bill to put teachers who strike in jail. It's a direct violation of their 1st Amendment rights to demonstrate, protest, assemble and their right to redress for griveances against the government.


Quote Originally Posted by Snowman78 View Post
Ps: I do support teachers, my wife was a PE teacher before her spine surgery- I just don’t think it is as bad as they say it is.
It's not just about their pay. It's also about their pensions and the school budgets.

Many teachers have to pay for their own supplies for their classes.

When you add in the cost of living here, these teachers are grossly underpaid. Colorado ranks 31st in terms of pay.

Even further adding to the argument, when marijuana was legalized here, Education, schools and teachers were supposed to be seeing a lot of that money...they aren't getting anywhere near what they were promised, but that's no surprise really! So was our infrastructure (roads, road repairs, improved utilities, etc) but that's a topic for another discussion. Just another example of big government promising things and failing to follow through as usual and the teachers are the ones paying the price.




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