Retirees Can Help the Schools
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11 responses to “Retirees Can Help the Schools”
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How DARE you muddle this conversation/topic with logic?<—sarcasm font!! Great ideas!
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You underestimate the expertise and the dedication that is in our schools
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How so? My target was getting VDOE to help, not individual schools.
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How so? My target was getting VDOE to help, not individual schools.
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Retirees? So, mostly over 60? I suppose if you restrict them to 16+, vaccinated, and masked.
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When I retired from state employment, I applied for a job as an aide in a Chesterfield County School. I was hired, but then I learned I would lose my state pension if I took the job, so I had to decline.
The aide job barely paid $20K annually. I understand preventing “double-dipping,” but these aide jobs are relatively hard to fill with few substitutes willing to take them for daily absences. I have always thought that the pension laws should be changed allowing state retirees to take school system jobs paying under $25K (or some fair figure) without losing their pensions.
It might be a small population that would be eligible for this type of program, but nowadays employers are fighting for every possible qualified applicant.
Now I substitute teach from time to time, basically “babysitting,” when I could probably make a real impact as an aide who is there for the students every day.
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Your situation is an example of a waiver that could be applied.
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So my wife just works for free….Spent several weeks this summer as an aide with a summer program. Not sure whether she will be helping this fall at the local elementary or at the private school where my grandkids fled to last year. The problem that developed over the summer was her work direct with kids was restricted as the cases rose. I am 110% sure this is purely a liability issue, as they fear a volunteer outside their insurance getting sick and filing suit. Virginia remains uninterested in providing any safe harbors against liability (the trial lawyers and unions who give so much money would whine….)
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As far as I know you can still work for a state agency or school system under VRS and not lose your pension as long as the position doesn’t have state benefits.
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Great idea with one obstacle that I see: VDOE would likely require that they get the now-requisite brain re-programming (i.e. equity and white-people-are-bad) .
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Missed this article but I hear Ffx is deleting Engineering elective that a lot of kids liked, perhaps an area retirees may help.
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