Scott Walker..Reducing Big Gov't, at the State level

[SunsetBengal]

(07-11-2015, 11:48 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I'm first pointing out that he dropped out of college. I am also pointing out that these cuts will only hurt students in Wisconsin's university system. Good professors won't stick around if you freeze their pay, get rid of tenure, and tell them to teach more classes. That's a little obvious.

Reminds me of the county I live in. It's a pretty wealthy county, but it's also the most Republican in MD. The result is low property classes and VERY low school funding compared to all of the other suburban counties. They have the lowest starting teacher pay in the state and new teacher are opting to teach in Baltimore City over this county. They recently did a retirement package hoping that they could get the teachers who had been there for 30+ years to retire and hire new teachers on the cheap. The problem was all their mid range good teachers took the packages and ran to the county I teach in or some of the others. They haven't had a pay increase in 6 years, meanwhile I am on step 6 after only 5 years in my county.

The point is, the fact that Walker did not appreciate a college education doesn't mean he should sabotage Wisconsin's university system. Let them be competitive.

Walker did not get rid of Professor tenure.  He only took it out of State hands, and back solely in control of the Board of Regents, just like the 49 other States...

As for him not finishing college?  Why is that such a big deal to you?  Plenty of people go on to have great lives and careers, without the benefit of a college degree.

"Until now, tenure for professors at the University of Wisconsin has been protected by statute (Wisconsin is the only state with such a law). Now, that protection has been eliminated, leaving it up to the school’s board of regents to decide whether professors have tenure."