There are hundreds of substitute teachers in Halifax, young people desperately seeking work in their chosen field. Many of these folks are bumped from the meager sub jobs available in favour of those retired teachers with huge pensions looking to finance their next European tour. How the fuck is this fair? Those rancid old farts cling to these jobs with embedded fingernails while young subs can’t find a shred of work. Besides, do we need any more godddamn Boomers ruining future generations like they did to their own? —School Board Only Wants RICH Retired Teachers For Subs
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2016.
Millennials are far worse.
-A very self conscious millennial.
Don’t become a teacher?
Life isn’t based on what is fair. That’s the harsh truth, my friend. A good friend of mine became a teacher and moved up north to get her foot in the door. Jobs in general are in demand in this province, unfortunately. If you want to work here in your chosen field, first you have to move away and get a ton of experience points and level up. Then when you’re at level 50 or higher you can move back and do the side quests.
Baby Boomer teachers who work past retirement age for ‘pin money’ (read: world cruises) should be turfed from the education scene permanently. They are greedy old trouts who just can’t stop siphoning from the public purse. I feel so badly for young teachers trying to make it in a province full of pontificating dinosaurs who refuse to relinquish even the most menial of positions.
That’s one of the reasons I took my BEd and went into the private training sector
It doesn’t help the problem to have more teachers than positions available, with unis turning out a new batch of grads every year. Not everyone who trains will get a job in their field.
The Canadian Armed Forces is avidly looking to fill positions. Go where the opportunities are. Bitching about something you can’t change gets you nowhere.
This is the public sector union scam. People retire and get hired as term or part time employees because they can make more money for the same job they are already doing. Hell, municipal workers, provincial workers, retired military, police, fire services, etc all do this. The system was built by boomers to benefit boomers when they “retire”.
First of all, many of the young unemployed teachers bemoaning the lack of jobs due to retirees double dipping would do the same thing if the tables were turned. The boomers don’t have a monopoly on greed.
That said, I think it would be wise for the school boards to do good succession management. Have a certain number of substitute positions assigned to teaching hopefuls under a certain age or at least to non-retirees.
Love how someone says a teacher should go where the jobs are, “level up” on experience and then come back with “credentials”…
That person obviously doesn’t understand how the system works and shouldn’t make uninformed comments.
If someone goes out of a particular school board whether in NS or another province, when they return, they start at the bottom just like everyone else! That suggestion is rubbish and is not practical.
I chose to stay in Halifax and work in the trenches to establish myself in the place I’d like to be in when I start a family. And so far, after more than half a decade, I’m not much higher than the ground on the totem pole.
Nobody said it would be easy, but I really didn’t think it would take a decade to get into the career that I was put on this earth to do.
Thank your union for it.
You people don’t know what you’re talking about and your portrayal of retired teachers is crude and unfair. I actually teach in a school and retired teachers are called when other substitutes are not available. These “pontificating dinosaurs” as one of you referred to them as are almost always confident,competent professionals who provide a smooth transition from the regular teacher. Even if retired teachers were banned from subbing, there would not be jobs for all the other substitutes. A few retired teachers subbing a bit…this fact changes nothing and the issue is a non-issue. The fact is that student numbers drop every year and too many teachers are being trained. The question is, why have Nova Scotia tax payers been paying over five million dollars a year for decades to train teachers who are not needed?
Op, hang in there, another 10 years of working tim Hortons while subbing will definitely put you higher on the interview list compared to someone that leaves the province to teach.
How would it be fair to take a teacher who has worked decade and force them to give up employment opportunities just so somebody with very little experience can get propped up. It’s tough to get a foot in the door, but it’s that way with every occupation. The sense of entitlement in this up and coming generation is staggering. And they’re the ones who are going to teach kids about life? Scary!
…and what teacher has a huge pension? Like most other people on the verge of retirement, they probably had to readjust their retirement plans when the economy trashed everyone’s investments a few years ago.
What teacher has a huge pension? Hahahahahaha!!!!! A relative of mine retired in 2003 & collects a sweet $56k pension a year. And all the relative’s retired teaching buddies haul in roughly around the same – CPP or OAP not included. These people are not poor. Imagine a two-teacher household. SUVs, European cruises, kiddies’ college paid for, pricey homes & enough disposable income to choke a double-assed yak. No, I can’t either.
This is why all young teachers leave this province. change the rules and stop this practice
Haven’t you realized boomers are special people exempt from the reality of our pitiful X/Y existence, The same people who somehow take home $5000 a month, have no mortgage, no kids and a Hyundai and yet are broke by payday, “Its hard on us all” My father makes $12,000 a month take home, saves $1500 of it a month for retirement, No mortgages, a free house from grandma, No car payments, company takes care of that, and yet, That left over $10,500 is gone by payday…… I do credit card applications all the time at my work, Why do you need a payment plan on a $1000 purchase when your taking home $5000 a month in pension? How does that even work? a lot of people here would kill to take home $3000 a month…. How is it they could grow up and go out to work, when houses downtown cost $110k and a pound of beef cost $1.99 on sale and yet be broke af…… I’m done feeling sorry for these old fuckers, Maybe the millennials will move to the US in droves in 20 years to avoid paying massive taxes to support the nearly dead boomers, I don’t get it I just don’t get it….How wasteful and stupid can people be really….
If someone can’t make it on $12k a month (that’s $144k a year!), pension or no, they must be living high on the hog. Boo-hoo-fucking-hoo, they can go blow their nose on a $100 bill.
Reread this bitch – $12k AFTER FUCKING TAXES?!!!
I can’t even imagine what kind of income you’d have to make that would give you a $5k a month pension.
I can’t even imagine what kind of income you’d have to make to generate a $5k a month pension. That’s a lot of fucking money.
I love how most people here comment as if they know about the subject matter!
T.T. FoBo seems to be educated on the subject. Some of my friends are teachers and based on their experience with the system here, I wouldn’t want to be a teacher in NS!
The last four decades of my adult life has been riddled with teachers. Someone once said that teachers rarely did well in other professions because of their love of pontificating and being in charge. I believe this to be so. I also believe that the teachers I know who are now retired are some of greediest people I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet. For them, young struggling teachers be damned, there’s an Oktoberfest in Munich to plan for.