Has Bill Gates Purchased the Teachers Unions?

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19. I AM a 50-something former teacher who was illegally fired

Don't tell me I don't know what I am talking about.

You won't have a job left at the rate things are going anyway, for "reformers" are targeting the higher-paid, older teachers for firing to save money on pensions, health care, and salaries.

I have found it nearly impossible to work regular employment EVER again, and it has been FIVE years since those assholes did it to me. I too am self-supporting and was forced to move out of state with to live with family and cannot get back on my feet financially. There is no spouse and no kids to help cushion the blow. It will be another three years of this shit before I can collect SS, at a reduced rate, with WEP added in because I take home a giant pension of $300 a MONTH from a state that doesn't pay into SS.

THAT is what I have to live on and whatever substituting assignments I can get. NOBODY will hire me for anything else, and I am financially strapped to be able to get licensed here.

You really have nothing to lose at this point because they are going to come after you anyway.