Reply #13: Every taxpayer in RI who is not a teacher cheers Gist on.

[trud]

We're the ones paying crippling property taxes so RI teachers can retire in their 40s with pensions of 80% of their last salary and nearly free health care.

The towns and cities are going broke trying to support this, but before they fail, the taxpayers employed in private industry or living on Social Security will be crushed by property taxes.

Hurray for Gist! More power to her.

And by the way, the reason the entire "school" (and it wasn't the school, it was every teacher in the town, please get your facts straight) was fired was that was the only way to avoid the seniority system which kept incompetent teachers in place and let competent ones go.