Walke is quite correct.
I do think it was intentional
Yes. Theyâve (mostly) moved to Houston.
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The GOP takeaway is that teachers should be thanking legislators for the raise.
[/quote]FIFY (I think)! I read it a couple of times before I figured out what I think was missing.
Anyway, that commentâs certainly a sentiment Iâve heard from some I disagree strongly with. Jokelahomaâs apparently actually achieved being 50th in the US for teacher pay and this one raise is supposed to fix all thatâthe school districts going to 4 days/week, the hundreds of millions of cuts going back 10 years? No way.
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Itâs so bad the local news last night interviewed a woman who commutes from Oklahoma down to the Dallas area to teach because she makes so much more money down here.
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That particular district is in the OKC metro area, so teachers should be able to go to another district with little effort. That doesnât mean that they would get a truthful reference from their current district, so the threat may make it more difficult than it seems on the surface.
OKC? Thatâs in the middle of the state. It is literally hours from Dallas, even to the northern suburbs. Even pushing the âmetro regionâ idea, itâs well over two hours between Norman and Denton. If you push the âsuburbâ concept to Gainesville, TX, itâs a still a two hour drive without traffic delays.
I used to drive that route all the time with a small child, so I know every bathroom opportunity on that stretch, lol.
Yes, but there are tons of school districts that are independent of each other. All of them are scraping the bottom to fill teacher positions. A teacher who doesnât want to move to Texas can still get a job in another district. It wonât pay as well as Texas, but if they get fired, they should still be able to get a job.
That said, the district in question sent school buses to the Capitol today, with teachers on them. So they might have changed their minds.