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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

Is it absurd to think that the taxpayers should have some say in how much the teachers are paid in the first place?

You do. You always have. It's called collective bargaining.

You mention the public teachers make 5% less than what private schools teachers make. Does that include benefits?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezr...and_local.html

Consider this analysis the Economic Policy Institute conducted comparing total compensation -- that is to say, wages and health-care benefits and pensions -- among public and private workers in Wisconsin. To get an apples-to-apples comparison, the study's author controlled for experience, organizational size, gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship and disability, and then sorted the results by education. Here's what he got:



If you prefer it in non-graph form: "Wisconsin public-sector workers face an annual compensation penalty of 11%. Adjusting for the slightly fewer hours worked per week on average, these public workers still face a compensation penalty of 5% for choosing to work in the public sector."