Teachers Are Not In Touch With Real World Economics

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Job Losses; Some Due to Attrition":

I have to say. After having time to reflect, I view the PTA and teacher posts to this blog differently than I had initially.

To all of those other than teachers and administrators. Imagine this scenario....you leave school and enter as a employee of a school district. You've never earned a dollar, never run a company, never had to meet standards of a private employer. Instead you enter a room surrounded by children and develop a lesson plan for teaching them. In that process, teachers lose touch with the principles of economics.

Soon enough, they believe that days off come cause they are an entitlement and raises come merely through the passage of time. Compensation is not tied to performance and the relinquishment of benefits (because of the company's economic pressures) are unfathomable.

What does it mean? It means that teachers may care but will never understand. They think they do (i.e. pay same taxes as us, etc.) but their vision of what an employer should provide completely lacks any true understanding of the risks other employees and business owners face.

Even more insulting is when a teacher then says..."you should have been a teacher." Think about that statement. Its a disguised way of saying "so I'm overpaid...what are you going to do about it?"

Other communities less fortunate than ours have recognized that economic principles are not just theory. You can't get blood from stone. In time, if this recession continues..these issues will force layoffs here. And only then will all of the newer teachers who trusted those more secure in their positions learn what we have been trying to tell them since the economy started its decline.