APS and new healthcare provider

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so hard to hear about this, especially, coming from a profession that actually has insurance, a pension, a decent salary (know and have teacher friends that make way more than me), a couple months off in the summer and most of the school holidays off. My employer doesn’t offer insurance so if I want it, I have to pay out of pocket. I’m sure it’s annoying for everyone and I’m sorry teachers and families are having to deal with it but there are a lot of us who wish having to change providers was our problem.

They don’t get the summer months “off”. They aren’t paid for them.

Tone deaf again. Teachers emphasizing that their summer breaks are unpaid, while they get more paid leave than most US workers get in a whole year just in the months between November and March... is maddening. We all know your job is hard... but there are perks and you know it.

Very tone deaf. I know teachers who “don’t have summers off” so they are working less than 12 months a year and are making more than what I do who works 12 months without paid insurance. I knew what I was getting into with my career choice and so did you.

[Anonymous]

Did everyone actually receive notification of this change?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so hard to hear about this, especially, coming from a profession that actually has insurance, a pension, a decent salary (know and have teacher friends that make way more than me), a couple months off in the summer and most of the school holidays off. My employer doesn’t offer insurance so if I want it, I have to pay out of pocket. I’m sure it’s annoying for everyone and I’m sorry teachers and families are having to deal with it but there are a lot of us who wish having to change providers was our problem.

They don’t get the summer months “off”. They aren’t paid for them.

They are still "off." Paid or not, they are not working. And they know that going in. Many get a summer job. That's their choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so hard to hear about this, especially, coming from a profession that actually has insurance, a pension, a decent salary (know and have teacher friends that make way more than me), a couple months off in the summer and most of the school holidays off. My employer doesn’t offer insurance so if I want it, I have to pay out of pocket. I’m sure it’s annoying for everyone and I’m sorry teachers and families are having to deal with it but there are a lot of us who wish having to change providers was our problem.

They don’t get the summer months “off”. They aren’t paid for them.

Tone deaf again. Teachers emphasizing that their summer breaks are unpaid, while they get more paid leave than most US workers get in a whole year just in the months between November and March... is maddening. We all know your job is hard... but there are perks and you know it.

My spouse worked for a company that provided FIVE - FIVE - paid vacation days. My spouse had been working for over 25 years when this company took over.
I am very grateful for the really great teachers out there and I do believe our country overall undervalues and underpays teachers. But I'm tired of the complaints about every single thing here, acting as though nobody in any other profession endures the things they as teachers must endure. I think they've trapped themselves into their own little bubble and are out of touch with the real work world.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think the teacher who is the most frequent voice on AEM represents APS teachers as a whole.

[Anonymous]

Maybe teachers can take Monday to research new doctors while the rest of us are working since they have the day off.

[Anonymous]

Guys, just because this was a little tone deaf doesn’t mean the flood gates are open to sh!t on teachers. Come on now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys, just because this was a little tone deaf doesn’t mean the flood gates are open to sh!t on teachers. Come on now.

I think when you lobby to parents and complain at a School Board meeting, you get what you get and you don't get upset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe teachers can take Monday to research new doctors while the rest of us are working since they have the day off.

I’ll be at services but okay.

[Anonymous]

As someone who came to APS from a private school, this really isn’t that big of a deal. We get so many more benefits, including, better pay and a pension. While I was teaching in the private sector we swapped carriers at least twice. I can’t say this to my peers, but, come on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe teachers can take Monday to research new doctors while the rest of us are working since they have the day off.

I’ll be at services but okay.

lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe teachers can take Monday to research new doctors while the rest of us are working since they have the day off.

I’ll be at services but okay.

Tone deaf AGAIN! Love that you get to celebrate your religion with a paid day off, something that no other non-Christian worker gets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who came to APS from a private school, this really isn’t that big of a deal. We get so many more benefits, including, better pay and a pension. While I was teaching in the private sector we swapped carriers at least twice. I can’t say this to my peers, but, come on!

I wish you could. People think that a very vocal group speaks for everyone.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher who’s ending a hard week, and loves the kids, and has a lot of prepping and grading to do this weekend, it saddens me to read such negative comments from parents/community about our profession and working conditions we did not create. All based on a few who complained about a switch of which we also have no control. Sigh

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel badly for one teacher who spoke last night who had some real medical issues that she was dealing with. I hope that Kaiser would work with her to a destinations before the switch.

That said, we have all had to change providers at some point, and I don’t appreciate that some outspoken individuals are complaining to the parents about this. Health insurance issues suck. I get that. However, what they are facing isn’t that uncommon and the hyper Bolic statements about needing sick days just to find doctors makes them look out of touch with reality. I think it’s certain Facebook page draws people to complain about everything and I think it’s actually done more harm to the system and good.

Exactly. This is an issue we have all had to deal with. And the accusation on Facebook that Kaiser didn’t bid because it didn’t want to deal with APS is ignorant at best. These folks clearly have no idea how health insurance works. And the whining that APS didn’t tell them in July. It is September. You have til end of March with the 90 day grace period BCBS is offering. This is an extreme overreaction with blame being directed at the wrong people.

FCPS has a similar page on FB and it's the same people complaining over and over again. I always wonder if other people from their schools look at those pages and if so, what they think.

That’s exactly how the APS staff page is. It’s always the same 10 or 15 people claiming that everything is going to cause a mass exodus and they’ll have to quit yet they never do. I know several of them also post on AEM.