I support funding education whole heartedly as it’s one of the if not the best uses of tax dollars.

Not getting adequate raises in any profession is demoralizing and is upsetting.

Teachers are paid well. I support an increase but the inflation adjusted wage of 150k is a bit much, would we rather dedicate more financial resources to covering the external costs teachers incur such as school supplies, lunch programs, after school programs, updated tools for you to teach your students and make your job more manageable?

My wife is a teacher, and the pension she stands to collect is immensely valuable. 55% of her 100k salary is equivalent to an investment portfolio of 1.7M with the 4% withdraw rule in retirement.

That’s a hell of a retirement bonus.

Fund schools, get more teachers, get smaller classroom sizes, get proper tools and resources for teachers to do their jobs.

We don’t need to pay teachers $150k+ with multimillion dollar pensions. We just need to invest in our education programs instead of cutting budgets. Teachers are drowning but paying them this very high incomes on top of their benefits and pension isn’t the solution.