Governor Quinn’s Pension Proposal would require a new teacher who begins her career at age 22 to wait until age 67 to collect a full pension. That’s 45 years in the classroom! Is the plan to reduce the state’s pension liabilities by hoping some of our new colleagues don’t make it to the finish line? What do you think?
April 24, 2009...10:35 am
Quinn Telling New Teachers Drop Dead?
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April 26, 2009 at 5:33 pm
A one-day statewide strike has been brought up in our district.
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April 26, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Something needs to be done. Don’t let Quinn this teachers are pushovers.
April 27, 2009 at 8:45 am
Oh he’s GOT to be kidding. I started teaching at age 29. Would I have to teach until I was 74? How can that be any good for our schools, or more importantly, our kids?
Colleagues, the Illinois Teachers’ pension funds have been pillaged repeatedly for decades. Help send a message to Gov. Quinn that we are tired of bailing out the rest of the state’s failures and filling politician pockets. WE are the ones working for our pensions – WE deserve to be heard on these decisions being made about our future and our well being.
Is it me or are these changes simply nuts?
April 27, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Seriously, the kids will be ill served by teachers that age with that long in the trenches. We won’t be attracting the brightest and best to our profession. with these kinds of actions. He is listening to the wrong people, shades of Blago. In fact even Blago never suggested such draconian measures. I do not believe Quinn stands a chance of a snowball in that warm place to become Governor alienating teachers and others who vote. He can’t make it our of the primary. Shame since the income tax is the only way out of all this mess.