Class Blog Review: Teachers Today Challenge Tomorrow

In Deserah Alvarez’s post “Teachers Today Challenge Tomorrow” she explains how cutting teachers salaries because of budget cuts will likely effect the current and future generations.  The issue of how budget cuts effect teacher’s pay and benefits is an issue that needs to be resolved, but it seems as if no one can come up with a good alternative and so teacher’s pay continues to be cut whenever states need to make large budget cuts.  Are the salaries of the administrative workers in education also being cut, or are the salary cuts only regarding teachers?  There are many administration jobs in education that pay high salaries that could also be reduced.  If teacher’s salaries need to be cut, there should be an attempt to cut salaries in other areas of education besides just the teachers.  Program cuts should be divided equally instead of cutting out single specific programs. 

Budget cuts have to come from somewhere, but I agree that education is very important for our country’s youth, and teachers are a large part of the success of future generations.  Children will suffer in this situation, with the loss of teachers and educational programs, they will not get the equivalent education that they should be getting.  I think that teachers should at least retain the rights to negotiate their benefits.  I agree that if many teachers are fired because of budget cuts, it is going to lead to more issues.  For one thing, there will be fewer teachers in the future because many people who want to teach will get tired of this situation and will not want to work as teachers anymore.  Also, students may be discouraged from studying to become a teacher because of all the teachers being fired and the low salary that they are being paid.