Originally posted by RJH1
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no to raises. my wife is a teacher and $5k isn't going to do anything to fix the mess called public education. privatize it and the cost per kid will go down, teachers would earn more money and the quality of education would dramatically improve. Public school is just another example why govt shouldn't be running anything.
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My whole point was that I don't think most people understand how public school teachers are paid...from property taxes. I was curious to see who supports teacher raises and if they have previously been complaining in the multiple threads about increasing property taxes. Supporting the raises while not wanting property taxes to increase is contradictory. Local taxes pay the salaries.
To think that most school districts can fund those raises from cutting expenses is naive at best and those that believe it most likely have never had to manage a budget of that size and complexity. The largest percentage of school district expenses are salaries! The raises are not a one-time expenditure. They are annual expenditures and have to come from somewhere. That somewhere is property taxes.
Almost everybody thinks school administrators make too much money. Pflugerville has over $300 million in revenues, 30 campuses, and 25,300 students...projected to increase to 28,000 in 5 years. Folks, that is a sizable business, and CEO's of private businesses of that size will be making high 6 to over 7 figures in salary. I contend that MOST administrators are not overpaid, but it is popular to complain about it.
For what it is worth, cehorn, Pflugerville ISD has not raised their tax rate in 5 years and actually lowered it this year.
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Originally posted by Coastal Ducks View PostApples to oranges. They don't have to play by the same rules and don't have to accept all kids.
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Originally posted by RJH1 View PostSo change the rules. No since throwing money at a problem and expect things to change, that hasn't worked and will continue to not work. If the system doesn't work correctly, (and most would agree that it doesn't) fix the system instead of reinforcing a broken one
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Originally posted by Shane View PostExactly. The government is incapable of running anything well. The education system is just like Detroit, California, Venezuela, etc.... All run by big government bureaucrats. Their only answer to fixing everything they screw up is to tax people more and dump more money into the failed system. It never fixes anything. The amount of tax money being paid into the system isn't the cause of the problems. The government system is the problem. Get the government out of education, and it will be better for all involved, teachers included.
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