Posts Made By: David Cotterell

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Cry me a river. James, you may have some sympathy for these leftist POS, but I have none. Do you know you are getting accurate reporting on this from the leftist media? Do you know for a fact that their constitutional rights are being infringed upon or is that what you are hearing from the CNN cretins? As I mentioned, I haven't keep up with the matter because I really have very little interest in what is occurring in Portland. Wring your hands all you want.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

They are well paid.

Consider this: Their meager salary in Colorado is that they start at well over $30K per year, plus the best benefits package in the world.  

The average pay in Colorado is just for their salary, over $58K per year, plus the benefits package.  

The benefits are such that they work 150 days out of a 365 day year, which means they WORK 150 days and have 215 days OFF.

If they work for 40 years in Colorado, they retire with 100% of their HIGHEST salary they ever achieved in their working life, meaning that if they retire at 100% and they are 60 years old, for the entirety of the rest of their lives taxpayers have to pay them 100% of their salary for the next 20, 30, or 40 years.

The benefits package alone is worth 10s of thousands of dollars every year for working less than 5 months out of a 12 month year.  

That's a pretty damned good deal. 

BTW, the product they put out is pathetic.  In Baltimore they have the 3rd highest costs for public schooling in the nation, and at 13 of their public schools in that city the percentage of children proficient in Mathematics is not 80%, not 60%, not 25%, but it is 0%, that's right ZERO percent of children at 13 different public schools in Baltimore are proficient at math for their grade level.

The Unions don't give a DAMN about kids, they are all about their members.  

P.S.  And I challenge any leftist out there to come up with numbers that disprove the facts. Hey Rod, show us how underpaid teachers are in Cal, since you claimed it.