Students and faculty came out to protest budget cuts to the CSU system March 4. The protest started on Dexter Lawn and then moved to the front of the Administration Building. Photo by Ryan Sidarto- Mustang Daily
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Wonder when the rally ended if the faculty/staff participating in the march took the students through their compensation packages?
As has been reported in the press for months, the pensions and benefits given to State employees and civil servant at all levels is what’s breaking the system.
Just this week, newspapers around the State reported that the State controller it must pay State workers more than $500M for saved vacation. This is just another perk State workers receive that the private sector worker doesn’t get. Add to things like this that a State worker can retire after 30 years with a handsome pension into which they’ve paid little to nothing and it’s understandable why the State is in deficit.
If students want to understand why fees keep rising, look no farther than Cal Poly’s faculty and staff and state workers at every level. It’s really that simple.
These children are acting, well, like children. A state-supported education is not a right. Rather, it is a luxury that taxpayers provide for society to the extent that it can be paid for. If these students are unhappy with the level of funding the taxpayers put forth for their educations, I welcome them to get jobs of their own to make up the difference.
Simply put, the state does not owe anyone a free or subsidized education. Most students in California have no idea just how much the state already pays for their schooling. I attended graduate school in New England at a private university, where one semester of tuition was more expensive than my entire undergraduate Cal Poly education. California public education is still extraordinarily inexpensive; to deny this is to deny reality.
Public education is one of the greatest things a government can give us. Do not cut back funding towards it. Education is an investment the more money we put in the more successful our country will be. Secure our state and countries future by spending less on military and spend more on school. But we are broke you say…Here is an idea, sell a jet* fund a school.
Wonder when the rally ended if the faculty/staff participating in the march took the students through their compensation packages?
As has been reported in the press for months, the pensions and benefits given to State employees and civil servant at all levels is what’s breaking the system.
Just this week, newspapers around the State reported that the State controller it must pay State workers more than $500M for saved vacation. This is just another perk State workers receive that the private sector worker doesn’t get. Add to things like this that a State worker can retire after 30 years with a handsome pension into which they’ve paid little to nothing and it’s understandable why the State is in deficit.
If students want to understand why fees keep rising, look no farther than Cal Poly’s faculty and staff and state workers at every level. It’s really that simple.
These children are acting, well, like children. A state-supported education is not a right. Rather, it is a luxury that taxpayers provide for society to the extent that it can be paid for. If these students are unhappy with the level of funding the taxpayers put forth for their educations, I welcome them to get jobs of their own to make up the difference.
Simply put, the state does not owe anyone a free or subsidized education. Most students in California have no idea just how much the state already pays for their schooling. I attended graduate school in New England at a private university, where one semester of tuition was more expensive than my entire undergraduate Cal Poly education. California public education is still extraordinarily inexpensive; to deny this is to deny reality.
Dear Government,
Public education is one of the greatest things a government can give us. Do not cut back funding towards it. Education is an investment the more money we put in the more successful our country will be. Secure our state and countries future by spending less on military and spend more on school. But we are broke you say…Here is an idea, sell a jet* fund a school.
*a typical fighter jet costs 160 MILLION DOLLARS