Where do you people think the darn money is going to keep coming from?! Granholm gave in to anything the thug unions asked for during all negotiations and gave them all they asked for and more. In return she and all democrats got their votes as it has been since the creation of unions. By the way this money is paid by all the rest of us non union, non public employees. We all feel that you should pay the same as us towards your retirement and health insurance and you DO NOT! Your benefits make ours look pathetic. As for tenure, it needs to be done away with. In bad economic times it is so wrong to layoff young, bright and energetic teachers for one that has been teaching for 30 years and cannot relate at all to the students. All parents will experience a few times their children having to suffer a whole year sometime with a teacher that should have retired long ago. There should also be a rating system that is influenced by students meap grades that determins who stays and who goes. No parent on the planet agrees with tenure.

The teachers in Fenton need to start getting focused on returning to school, and quit their letters to the editors, collecting signatures on recalling Synder and Scott, etc.,
The teachers look pretty silly and selfish; they have finally become of this states and countries recession b/c their pocketbooks are finally being hit?
Personally, I wouldn't be led around by a union; I would use my brain and some common sense.

I'm neither a teacher nor a union member, and I was happy as a clam to sign a recall petition for Rep. Scott. Normally, I too would let the next election determine whether or not he was doing a good job, but have to agree with the letter that this is an unusual case. Scott's lobbying for the Sec. of State job, his votes in support of tax cuts for corporations and cancellation of the homestead tax credit -- all make an economic case for recall.
Personally, I find his antipathy towards teachers unpleasant and his fear of gay and transgendered people unnerving.
While funding, rather than cutting, education is about as important as it gets, I hope people realize the recall effort is not a single-issue one.

This response is to Mr. Brown and his rhetorical question of "where do you darn people think the money is going to come from?" Actually Mr. Brown, where the money already WENT is well reported. Paul Scott voted for over $1.7 Billion to be given in more tax breaks to the corporations operating in Michigan. These tax breaks will take Michigan from #15 on the list of states "friendliest to business" to #13 on that list. Not sure when we're going to see more jobs in Michigan for that money. Business in the U.S. is already sitting on trillions of dollars in cash and we're not seeing any reduction in unemployment.

So I'm sorry, I don't think that insignificant improvement (from #15 to #13) is really worth taking money away from my child's education. I want my doctors, police, and teachers to be the best paid in the world, because I want these professions to attract the best and the brightest for our children!!! Just like the positions on Wall Street that have the potential to pay in the millions attracts the best and the brightest. Doesn't that make more sense?
Marilyn