Student-teacher links suffer with furloughs - Hawaii Features

I've been a teacher for a long time and am planning to retire in three years. If I do that, the furlough days will dig a permanent hole in my retirement income.

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We applaud your testiment of and for the kids you've been made in charge of, those many years and hope your retirement is glorious. However, it appears you retirement funds are more on your mind then what has been written. What bothers me about this testimony was that you began it with your retirement fund loss. Although I symphatize with you on that point, but it seems your using the kids as the victims to your demise. Who is really suffering here? What teachers do, whether it be writing reccommendations to getting the school prom just right is commendable, but don't you have the option to opt out. Also agree with your husband up to a certain point. Some field trips are essential, but not all.

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We need better teacher performance before we pay them more.