Jackson Jambalaya

Teachers deserve pay raises, especially thorough teachers.
Teachers teach lessons that are discussed forbears and years.

Signed,
Emeritus

OMG....they act like a $425.00 per month pay raise before taxes and insurance will change someone's life. Give me a break.

The largest influx of one-time federal cash in state history. The largest teacher pay raise in state history. The largest tax cut in state history. Probably the largest drunken legislative session in history. It's not tax and spend, but what do you call it?

@9:28

A business owner would call it "bankruptcy."

@9:14 AM
I missed the part where they acted like it's a life-changing pay raise. Can you point me to the statement?

Might see 120 of it after retirement and insurance.....meanwhile UMMC just possibly doomed Cancer patients with their shitty negotiating skills. Or as rumor has it....trying to squeeze BCBS for more.

I wonder if Nancy Loome will take credit for this?

@9:51 have you missed all of the media coverage on this? According to them people will now be able to quit their second jobs because of this raise. Better talent will be recruited....$41k or $37k is still shit pay for the MOST important job in the world.

10:38 : Especially once you see how much admin gets paid .

While we're basking in the sunshine of pay increases, what became of the Senate bill to raise their own pay by thousands. Seriously...did it die or will it slide under the door at the last minute?

12:57 : Think they passed it already.

@10:38 AM
Don't get it twisted: Law enforcement is the most important job in the world.
Law enforcement and medical workers.

@9:14 - In an economy where truckers will jump ship for 3cents a mile and unions will push for 10cents an hour...$425 a month is a mighty healthy pay raise in most any job, regardless of your attempt to minimize its value.

Let me put it another way...Get your head out of your ass.

@2:36 Nope. The most important jobs in the world are law enforcement, sanitation removal, and sewage management. Without those three - civilization becomes quite uncivilized and deadly...regardless of healthcare responders.

2:36: I think you meant 'sanitation management' and 'sewage removal'.

Without workers toiling cheaply in the education process, there would be no people trained in law enforcement, shit removal or management of government processes. Nor would there be any need for those skills since we'd all be troglodytes.

While I support teacher pay raises they and many other poorly thought out legislative actions have been at the sacrifice of other state employees. Teachers are valued but you now have teachers with higher starting pay than engineers or many other highly skilled state employees. Probably why you see MDOT, MDEQ, MDWFP, MDOH and other state agencies with huge vacancies and other funding needs.