Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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I think it would be instructive to understand how this situation evolved. Not too long ago the automobile industry paid 100% of the health insurance premium for its workers, white and blue collar. To compete with the auto industry, public education was forced to do the same...and they (we) were still paid less in salary than assembly line workers. The labor market was determined by market forces - supply and demand - classic "free enterprise."
If we are to have a statewide standard of academic achievement, we MUST have a statewide commitment to fairly compensating ALL educators. Maybe this is why the Practitioners Summit favors some kind of UNIFORM (i.e., statewide) premium co-pay. Anecdotally, some districts' teacher pay nothing. Anecdotally, Grand Ledge teachers pay 29% of their health insurance premium. If the media spent as much time pushing positive reform as they do in spreading ill will against educators maybe more businesses would want to move here and improve our state's economy.
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