Ijustwannateach

Zulo, thanks for bringing some calm fact to what is becoming an otherwise unfortunately typical catfight, er, thread.

Give refunds with whose cash?  This is the part where the 'corporate person' quietly dies an irresponsible death leaving the obligations unmet, while the actual current owners of the stock take a bath, and the original owner before the IPO laughs all the way to the bank.

It will be interesting to see what is taught, and how it relates to reality on the ground.  Awfully far away and all.....

Once again, I'd like to remind any erstwhile straight audience that we're not about the debate here and we don't care about your homophobic religious views.  This isn't the place.  One message deleted.

As someone who's pretty familiar with how things are done at a number of schools, I have one caveat to point out:  if you didn't have this kind of system in place, the salaries teachers make wouldn't actually allow them to retire, raise families, support their parents, etc., etc.

At public schools, the corruption system is what makes it possible for woefully underpaid public workers to survive.  Not much different in that respect from so many other public systems here.

If you want to change it, you can:  all you have to do is pay TWICE for one generation.  You've got to pay for the 'old school' (so to speak) to get their retirement without the corruption payout, which typically gets bigger for most teachers as they get closer to retirement and have higher seniority.  AND you've got to pay the 'new generation' teachers, who will retire without this system, a fair wage.  So taxes will go up a lot, because it's the only fair way to make it happen.

So, which will it be?  Corruption or taxes?