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"I think teachers have a different attitude about life, accept a different way of life – we’re not just going for the big bucks, we want to make a change for children. A pension increase will give teachers – after they serve the community for 30 years – a respectable retirement."
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"This is my first year teaching. I moved from Pennsylvania to teach here. The call back to Pennsylvania is hard to resist. We’re the future – we’re teaching the state’s children, preparing them for higher education and the state really needs to give back to us what we give to the state. Maryland called me first, I liked the school, the weather is nice, and they want teachers. It’s hard to get a job early in your career in Pennsylvania. Now that I find out about the pension, I realize how hard we need to fight to keep young teachers like me here. We have top notch professionals here, and yet we’re not getting top-notch benefits. I’d like to stay in Maryland, but the pure economics of it make it hard. If the pension doesn’t go higher, I just can’t. I have to look to my future, and my future can’t be a 38% pension – it just can’t. Who can survive on that?"
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The advantage to children would be a more stable teaching staff because more teachers are going to stay around to do their craft instead of getting out altogether."
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