Ginny Fleck, a teacher from Green Bay with 30 years of experience, is among nearly 5,000 teachers who retired recently after all the hysteria in Wisconsin- double the amount that normally retire. "It wouldn't make sense for me to teach one more year and basically lose $8,000," she said (the Huff Post is the source). Fleck would still be paid $52K/year to teach German, but under the new laws, she would have to take part of her $60,000 annual salary to pay for a part of her own healthcare and kick in for her own plush retirement, and that would add up to 8K/year.
Fleck is a great example of the sort of entitlement that is reflected in public employees- while the rest of America struggles to hold jobs and people face reduced salaries and reduced hours, she would rather quit than take a pay cut of 8K a year. Rather than say 'I'm just happy to still have a job in this environment and would love to continue to be paid 52K/year to teach young children German', she sees making 52K but not 60K as 'losing 8K'. Although she doesn't teach math, it is clear she has eaten up liberal rhetoric which regards growing the budget at slower levels as 'cutting' and believes that 'Bush cut the size of government' (which he did not- he grew it by large amounts with his unsustainable spending).
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According to the Huff Post, the departure of 69-year angry liberal entitled Ginny Fleck has now opened up a position of employment for a young, technologically savvy teacher trained in new methods and just eager for the chance to teacher. 'I would love to have a job teaching middle school students German for 30K/year plus benefits plus retirement plus vacations' this new hypothetical teacher might say.
In Green Bay, Fleck said about 140 out of 1,700 of the district's teachers retired this year. She said another 50 or so planned to retire in the middle of this school year, cashing in vacation days saved over the years to retire in January and yet be paid their full salary until the end of their contract year (do any of you have this sort of set-up in your jobs?), and leaving the district in a scramble to hire long-term substitute teachers to fill the loss.
But above all, Fleck bemoans the fact that "All of the leadership is gone"- as if by leadership she means people like her who illegally strike to demand higher wages and salaries while refusing to pay anything for retirement and healthcare, at a time when Wisconsin's economy, like the rest of the nations, is struggling. Her leadership of screaming hate at people so she can keep her own is the kind of leadership that apparently will now be leaving Wisconsin, being replaced by professionals who will perhaps be more willing to work with the community and more recognizing of the situation that others from Wisconsin are in.
Thank you Huff Post for posting this article and bringing my attention to Ginny Fleck, a great example of everything that is wrong in the education world, and someone who I think should be lucky to continue to be making a fine retirement package paid for by the taxpayers.
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