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mark4teach Wrote: Jun 13, 2012 8:57 PM

Yes, teachers can retire after 20 years with less than half their pay. After 30 years they will earn about 70 percent. Teachers do not pay into SS. Therefore they cannot draw SS unless they have worked in private sector for several years. I know, I worked in the private sector for 15 years, been teaching for 24 years. Will retire at 63 after teaching for 30 years. The SS that I will get will be less than half what I should be getting. Why because i will get retirement from the state. Meanwhile our congress, can retire at full pay from congress, full pay if in the military for 20 years, full pay if they paid into SS. I have a Master's in education, BS in Indust. Tech. 100 units over my Masters, I make less money than my brother-in-law who

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mark4teach Wrote: Jun 13, 2012 9:00 PM

has a BS in business. I'm at school from 6:30 to 3:00 in the afternoon. Then tutor three days a week. I to do not get paid for the summer, nor can I draw unemployment. Money is taken from my pay check to pay for the summer I'm off.

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Shorten the School Year

Vincent Gray, who is the mayor of Washington, D.C., which has some of the worst public schools in America, has an idea he believes will improve them: Keep children there longer.

"It is time for us to get rid of what I think is an agrarian concept," Gray told a Washington radio station this spring, "and that is the days, in the 19th century, when it was thought that children had to get home early to help out with the chores, when they had to get out of school in June and go back at the end of the summer...

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