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I laugh because of the f*cked up government accounting system schools run on, wherein, you are rewarded for spending all your money and penalized for not utilizing it. Yet they can't understand why they're broke?

Oh, yeah. Let's all bash those selfish, poser teachers for their greed.

Because we know how rich they are and we know how easy their jobs are.

Uh, nothing here supported anything Mr. Private School advocate said.

The elephant in the room here is the recession. During recessions, people lose their jobs or make less money, reducing tax revenues. At the same time, more people need government services. When it comes to K-12 public schools, it probably doesn't change the demand much at all, and what change there is would likely be an increase.

Everything presented in the charts is exactly what you would expect to happen. First, during a recession you expect to see the private sector tank, and the public sector grow. Second, you expect that if state governments are stupid enough to cut education budgets, and require layoffs, you would expect it to come from administrators first, and teachers last. Third, you would expect the bulk of the money spent on education to go towards educators, since it's a service industry, and not some factory cranking out widgets.

The real problem here is the requirement for California to maintain a balanced budget, and that stupid Prop 13 that makes it all but impossible to raise taxes.

What we really need is more Federal aid to states during the recession. In other words, we need more stimulus.

Anyways, bad propaganda. They at least don't try to overtly state that the public education system is having this problem because it brought it on itself somehow, but man were they implying it hard.

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Just to set the record straight, my mother is a public school teacher. I was just bashing their accounting system (which she agrees is more retarded than the kids in the bungalow classrooms.)

Why should the general area matter in the slightest to teachers being upset about a 10% pay cut? Am I wrong in assuming all public school teachers follow a standardized salary contract throughout the state? If they don't, and these teachers are living comfortably with their salaries noticably higher than any other public school district, then their strike might seem like an exercise in greed. However, for the importance of their job, the amount of time and effort it demands as well as the 4-5 years of university studies required to preform it adequately, they probably get a comparatively low salary to most of the other people in this video.

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