[maked00]

Typical 1% rant designed to flumox the 99%.

Overlooks that teacher pensions is a legitimate expense if you just happen to be running schools, like CA is.

Just goes to show, when you want to lie, lie big.

Take away teachers' pensions, and you might as well say goodbye to attracting any new teachers or retaining the good ones.

As Dr. Martin Luther King worked so hard for, everyone, which includes teachers, has a right to a decent living which includes a decent retirement.

[rayiner]

The attracting teachers bit is crap. We have a huge surplus of fresh college graduates in this country with no jobs. You could get rid of pensions entirely and still have bright people lining up to fill positions.

[FelixP]

Also, I imagine that most potential new teachers would be skeptical at best about receiving their full pension benefits.

[danielweber]

It's very economically difficult to move either into teaching or out of teaching. There's nothing fundamental about this; it's just the systems we've set up.

Teaching really should be one of the things that it's as easy as possible to switch into or out of.