Atlanta
Public School teachers who were fired after the 2009 cheating scandal have
filed age discrimination charges against the school system. This has to do with
the notion that employees who are age 40 are old and should receive “protected
status” under the troublesome Civil Rights Act.
The Civil
Rights Act should have defined “old” as age 50 or older. Given the Muslim
problem, the Civil Rights Act should be repealed. Islam needs to be determined
to be a foreign form of government, not a religion within the meaning of
religion in the US Constitution.
The
plaintiffs claim that when the new APS Superintendent was hired, many schools
had been failing and that teachers were fired to attempt to fix this problem.
There are
2 groups of teachers in these public schools.
There are those who only teach for 5 years and then they quit to have
kids and don’t go back, because they can’t stand it anymore. The second group of teachers are in it for
the pension plan. They want to work for 30 years and then retire at age 51 on a
full pension. These are the teachers who
are filing the lawsuit.
The real
problem is the pension plan itself and the early retirement provisions. Pension
funding for unionized government employees is a problem that needs to be solved
by going to 401k plans with a 5 year vesting program to get employer
contributions.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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