TEACHERS WALK OUT

[Blindgreed1]

I just read that public school teachers in Kentucky do not receive Social Security benefits. How can that be?

Kentucky's public school teachers are the only government employees in Kentucky who, by state law, are forbidden to participate in the federal Social Security system. Instead, the teachers and the state contribute jointly, on a 50-50 basis, to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System.

And their "retirement system" is a joke. You have to work in KY public schools (and ONLY KY schools) for a minimum of 27 years to be eligible. 27 years is far beyond what their average tenure is. The best estimate I could find is just over half of the teachers hired are still in the same school two years later.