That was just showing how greedy the public sector is. They work a full year BS, they do, they work less than 35 hours per week on average. Unless they get paid extra they are not working summers, spring vacations, Christmas vacations, many more holiday than the private sector gets. Then you can add sick time, personal time and vacation time, that one is a real joke, vacation time, come on now. lol
Tenure: "The [continuing contract] rule hasn't been looked at in at least 30 years," he said. "In our system, the rule, as it's written, is that everybody is on the tenure track. Doesn't say some get tenure, it says everyone. Tenure is a joke, imagine you can't be fired for being a bad teacher, lol. No problem, with that?
Read more:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/...ty-contracts-again-under-review#ixzz2Qqjw1NCv
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Stop, at least do some research before you Write, come on teach.
Like I said, I know professors in Boca, they don't work summers, and they don't do research or writings in the summer, I doubt they ever do it, lol. Researching what, how to teach? lol They sure and **** don't make 60k either. Tenure is the biggest joke ever, it's just another scam job, that let's bad teachers keep their jobs. Let's talk about that one, ok.
'' Which means that while people in the private sector have already been working for 5-10 years and building up their bank accounts''
I guess you don't keep up with the times. Most Americans spend more than they save now, tough to save now with all the taxes to pay for gov workers.
''adjuncts have been in school, only to be rewarded by making ~20k/yr or so as an instructor.''
Then go get a real job with that 10 years of education, see how much it gets you now. I guess you didn't see the list of many hundreds, probably thousand in Fl making too much. Most making a tad bit more than 20k, lol Like I keep saying many of those pieces of paper are worthless.
'' Most of them do not come from wealthy families.'' Never said they did. I said some are well off and give back to the next generation. Some actually go outside the box and become doers for a while.
Some adjuncts are well off and teach because they love teaching, we thank them all for their service to their kids and grand kids. Some are probably new teachers who an't be hired full time because of all the over paid thieves above them. One for instance, we were in Yellowstone camping next to us was a teacher, we got to talking. They had to lay a few hundred high school teachers off in her district. They had to cut the budget 10%, so of course the young ones got the ax. I said to her, why didn't your union vote to take a cut and save those kids jobs, she said no way she was taking a cut. I said that's pretty ****ty that you expect those young teachers to put into your pension when they get rehired someday, but you tenured teachers won't take a small cut to let them keep their jobs. I said that's pretty darn greedy if you ask me, those are someones kids and grand kids you are sticking it to. The teacher and her husband sat there with their mouths open, he worked in the private sector, he said I can see your point.
I guess my bloated salaries are not in agreement with what you call bloated salaries. It's for some where around 7 months of work remember. Never once did I say they are singled out for draining state budgets, but now that you mention it they have a nice big part in it along with all the rest of the public union and gov workers. Not wanting to pay 3% out of pay check to pay for their own retirement, those entitled pricks should all be fired.
And no I will never back down from any scammer. Met a huge firemen from Hollywood Florida a couple weeks back in the casino while I was watching a game. He started bragging he was retired since 43, now he was my age, I said where from, gov job. Hollywood fire dept, I told him, you're all a band of thieves down there, with all those scam benefits and early retirements. I knew more about his own fire dept than he did. To say the least he didn't like it, tough ****.
Name one untruth for Fl states colleges and many other states are worse? Please inform us, lol. BS
I just named several:
1. Most instructors are adjuncts who don't get paid a lot and don't receive state benefits.
2. Those instructors who are in tenure-track positions do not receive "bloated" salaries, and most of them do not retire early with fat pensions.
Basically the whole idea that professors are getting rich and have fat benefit packages that are draining state budgets is total BS.
The biggest cost-cutting measure that universities could undertake is cutting back administrative and bureacratic positions. As I said earlier, it's not that their salaries are bloated (most admins make ~50-75k; only upper level bureaucrats make more). It's that there are so many of them that hold unnecessary or repetitive positions.
Seriously. you should just stop. You are so incredibly off-base and full of absolute **** that's it's comical. You have no clue what you're talking about.
College professors are not paid like k-12 teachers. They work a full year. When they're not teaching, they are researching and writing books or articles. If they don't show results, they don't get tenure. If they don't get tenure, they get stuck making 60-80k at best.
And when you speak of "young" adjuncts, keep in mind that most are in their mid-30s before they complete a PhD. Which means that while people in the private sector have already been working for 5-10 years and building up their bank accounts, adjuncts have been in school, only to be rewarded by making ~20k/yr or so as an instructor. And many of them do that for several years on end. The vast majority of them do not come from wealthy families. They do it because they love the job. No one in academia does it to get rich.[/QUOTE]
