Thursday, September 1, 2011

Wisconsin embraces ignorance. According to Talking Points Memo Scott Walker helps the children by making sure he has a lot more teachers in the classroom who don't know what they are doing.

"It wouldn't make sense for me to teach one more year and basically lose $8,000," said Green Bay teacher Ginny Fleck, age 69, who has 30 years of experience.
The retirement request records obtained by the AP show overall public employee retirements have been double that of 2009 or 2010, totaling 9,933 retirements, including 4,935 school district employees, and 1,091 University of Wisconsin System employees.
Many of these positions will be filled, though no comprehensive statistics are available. But the issue does remain that the school systems have spontaneously lost an unusual amount of total experience.
"You can't get experience through a book, you've got to teach," said Green Bay

Full story here:  http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/teacher-exodus-in-wake-of-anti-union-law-in-wisconsin.php?ref=fpb

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