From RH Jones, April 4, 2008
Subject:The BIG picture is H
To all:
The BIG picture for leveling the playing field with other college graduates here in Ohio rests, in a very large part, with H.B. 315. Having retired teacher health care (HC), financed by a steady stream of funding as outlined in H.B. 315, is ABSOLUTELY essential for Ohio, its young people, and for their educators. All of us may come and go but this investment in Ohio now, and for the future, will be a big help to Ohio’s forward movement.
The drain of charter schools, community schools, or whatever they may be called, has drawn off billions of Ohio’s tax dollars into the pockets of the undeserving who work overtime to get rich by trying to find ways to circumvent the law. Our traditional public schools have always had the checks and balances to insure the wise use of public tax dollars. Profit is not the incentive in our traditional public schools, rather education is.
And with the outstanding efforts and coverage that the press (Such as the Beacon and the Canton Repository, among others.), perhaps our politicians, businesses and our local school boards are beginning to see the green light, not a red light, in the forward progression of this law, and of our state. This bill is as crucial, if not more so, to Ohio and its youngsters, as is paying for textbooks and school buildings. And with the recent increases in un-funded, - and unfounded - mandates that educators have to now put up with, most certainly, the least that can be done is to provide HC in the Ohio teacher’s retirement. Or should even more be drawn away from the profession?
That is my educated opinion.
RHJones, retired STRS teacher member
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