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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, everyone doesn't deserve a raise; in fact, I believe, even in the MCPS organization, there's at least one person who deserves to be fired.

And, as a government employee who has not had a raise in several years (and has endured mandatory furloughs) while having benefits cut (and also paying substantially more for health insurance), it's off-putting to me that a 7% raise seems like no big deal to MCPS teachers.  As a government worker, I, for one, I'm grateful that I have a job in this economy -- and even though my workload is ever expanding with NO additional compensation (in addition to the pay freeze, we've had a hiring freeze: as workers depart, their duties are doled out to those of us that remain).  So I would be overjoyed with ANY raise -- even the one-half percent raise that has been proposed for the feds.  But I think a 7% raise for any government employee -- federal, state, county, or municipal -- is indefeasibly high.  
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+1.  I'm in the private sector and no one in our company has seen a raise for the last 3 years.  No raises in sight either.  In fact, despite the fact that I put in long hours, do additional work because of colleagues who have been "let-go", and consistently get glowing annual reviews, I would hesitate to even ask my boss about a raise.  He would laugh me out of the room.

I don't understand why so many post on this thread want to turn this into "teacher bashing" or "teachers deserve the moon" type rhetoric.  I think there are many of us out here paying MD taxes and valuing our teachers, who simply cannot relate to an across-the-board raise like 7%.   Doesn't mean we don't appreciate the teachers, doesn't mean we don't think they're great.  Just means we don't have endless supplies of money.[/quote]

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