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Originally Posted by richlevy
Personally, as soon as I saw that she had been a teacher for 28 years I immediately assumed that this was an excuse to screw her out of her full pension, assuming they offer one.
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Texas teachers don't have a pension plan in that sense, their retirement pay is based directly on how many years they've worked, be it two or thirty.* More likely it's because the unions have gotten pay scales to be linked to seniority as well, and if they fire her they can hire two young teachers for the same money.
*Note, however, that if they are a teacher for 15 years and something else for 15 years, they may collect either teacher retirement, or Social Security, but not both.