"Education of Our Children Top Agenda for Community"

Donnaw: I was simply stating what I knew and asking for info about teachers. Did not say I was in favor of it. I actually got an email from a Janesville school board member explaining that the "magic" age for a teacher to retire is 57 because they get 4 years of paid health care and usually have enough sick days banked to pay for 4 more years of health care which gets them to 65 and Medicare. That they get 16 DAYS of sick days per YEAR so it would make it pretty easy to bank enough to pay for 4 years of insurance. Pretty sweet deal. Guess I did not get the whole story from my neighbor. I only go 5 sick days a year from my employer and could not bank them. I think that is about what my wife got from the county although she could bank them but certainly did not get 16. Nor did she get ANY "free years" of health insurance after retirement.

Maynard...so when your friend retired from teaching she made a choice. She could have kept working to maintain her health insurance as most people do, or retire and get her own insurance. But that was her choice. And it's not up to taxpayers to pay for health insurance forever if someone decides to retire early. It's called personal responsibility.

"Remember folks this isnt about educating kids, its about GREED and HATRED for right wingers PERIOD. They want their money, the hate unions, simple enough. Simple solutions for the dumbed down Fox Noise society."
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Fear--that's classic! Wouldn't it be just as simple to say it's about "GREED" attributed to the public employees? Demanding that taxpayers pay more to provide for benefits/HC that those same taxpayers don't even come close to enjoying. It certainly sounds like a good example of greed and a case of the unions and the teachers "wanting their money" to me--Don"t be such a part of the dumbed down MSNBC society and try to look at things more objectively.

I say Harry is really a democrat using "reverse psycology",no way this guy is for real. Right?

Remember folks this isnt about educating kids, its about GREED and HATRED for right wingers PERIOD. They want their money, the hate unions, simple enough. Simple solutions for the dumbed down Fox Noise society.
Case in point. Watchin Bill Orielly program, he makes a statement about Ashley Judd's desire to help financially challenged kids instead of her own, as an attack on traditional family values and will lose her any election against McConnell. Immediately following that was," Up next on the rundown, McDonalds and other fast food restaraunts will be raising the price of your hamburgers because of Obamacare." ANd that guy claims to be an independant? THIS is what these people are made of. They buy into this crap hook, line, and sinker. DUMB, DUMB, DUMB. This is the new America, and the results of decades of devaluing education. We now have an enire generation of zombies that eat this stuff up.

HandBook: I don't want to feed your ignorance anymore. Why add substance to someone who has NO clue about anything regarding public education! Your feeble attempts to discredit educators is laughable! Why do you care if educators choose to pay union dues? You're not able to get into the club? Or is it they have something you don't? Let's face it you're jealous and want people to continuing to lose pay and benefits because you don't have them!

By the way harry,
"Unless you get coerced to pay union dues to union fat cats with six figure salaries who promise you lifetime benefits."
I have heard this b.s. comment so many time on this site. It makes me wonder each time why it bothers you so much that I chose to pay union dues? I would much rather pay my dues to a union that is actually doing something for me than to pay for a governor who does jack for me. Who are the ones that are coerced? Oh thats right he saved you 8 dollars on your taxes this year and brought 250,000 "new" jobs to wisconsin. Look in the mirror jack, maybe you were the one that was "coerced"

Harry,
You haven't had anything with "substance" since you started your teacher hating trollfest on this site. The only "substance" you know is what you regurgitate from fox or your tea party b.s. websites. You are a Walker tool.

Wh Harry you havent, never do. Just a bunch of repetetive repubican blather. Go honor the garbage men because they are on par with educators. You are a joke of an indivisual and quite a pathetic little man/woman

Do you have anything of substance to add?

HandBookHarry=Wislady

"Where did the children learn that, or did the parents learn it from their kids?"

Teacher unions.

This whole thing of they only work part of the year is old. They work more days and hours than the State Congress members-for less money and benefits. You all could have had the same if you had applied for a teaching job or ran for office, or applied for a state job. Don't begrudge people for what they have. Enough of that goes on in the elementary classrooms and playgrounds. Where did the children learn that, or did the parents learn it from their kids?

I'd like to honor all the plumbers and garbage men and women who go above and beyond the call of duty eveyday. Thank You!

Let's honor, recruit, retain, and motivate our talented and productive teachers, new and veteran teachers alike. We value your service and thank you for going above and beyond in the classroom and surrounding community each and every day. Thank you!

Nicksmom....Bingo....

They are well compensated..many of them. Spare me the whining.. When we choose a profession we have to endure its likes or dislikes. If you do not like it then you know the rest.

How about education being the top agenda? In life, there are no guarantees.

Unless you get coerced to pay union dues to union fat cats with six figure salaries who promise you lifetime benefits.

@Hope65: Every worker is valued. I fail to see the pedestal that teachers believe they are entitled to. They are well compensated for their partial year jobs.

Skyrocketing health care costs? Really? Who knew. But, we don't need no stinking health care reform.

When my wife retired from the county she had 2 options. 1) use her accumulated sick days from the 33 years to pay for health insurance at an expensive Cobra rate (so might have covered a year and a half because she only made $15 per hour after 33 years) or 2) Take taxable cash for HALF of her sick days. We elected option 2 since I also had insurance through my employer although not as good as her county insurance.
But she was not a teacher so maybe the teachers get paid out all of their sick days or get more towards insurance. I do not know. My neighbor retired as a teacher at 57 and she gets 4 years of insurance. Then will have to find something from age 61 to 65 prior to Medicare. Maybe the AHCA will cover her those 4 years, who knows.

at retirement; SDJ staff cashes in unused sick time in exchange for health benefits, for a MAX of up to 3 or 4 years if you've saved the max sick days in your "bank". I think they are contemplating pulling this safety net from their employes and either giving them monetary compensation for these days banked or more likely just screwing them all completely and then increasing all the administrator's salaries. (sarcasm, but not really)

nv...I was just saying that the board is looking at health insurance coverage for early retiree's. I thought early retirement meant that the person would be covered the rest of their lives, either on the schools health insurance or when they go on Medicare covered under a supplementary program. Is the board trying to decide on how many years for early retirement benefit coverage? Guess we will have to see.

Donna...show me a district that pays for health care for thirty years after retirement. My wife received four years, I had none. I've heard of ten years, but never thirty.

The board is talking "early retirement" not normal retirement. So retire at an early age, say 55, and you can expect the tax payers to pick up your health care for 30 plus years? What a deal!

Well said, Hope65. If you want to attract and retain quality educators, they need fair compensation. I do not begrudge them a decent retirement package because they have an enormously important job that affects the success of this country and its populace.

"The world won't stop if you don't have an education, it'll merely pass you by."

Value the teachers in our community. Honor our teachers by providing post-retirement benefits for our public servants. Thank you for providing an exemplary education for our children. We value you.