{"id":545,"date":"2025-01-14T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/?p=545"},"modified":"2025-01-14T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:48:07","slug":"the-long-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"the long game &#8211; and buyout thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/files\/2025\/01\/download-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-546\" src=\"http:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/files\/2025\/01\/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As many consider the buyout option the district is offering &#8211; consider this&#8230;public education here in Ohio is on the decline &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2025\/01\/20\/religious-education-public-schools-vouchers-taxes-catholic-church-ohio?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_Free_011425&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=tny_daily_digest&amp;bxid=5be9f6003f92a40469303987&amp;cndid=50145774&amp;hasha=16666ba6b59e77959f6db2062b2428f3&amp;hashb=1692c29322fe7b402a8852915ab3377147487c9e&amp;hashc=5d8f07bbff5443951e614a6ca007afc20a3d22593a32e653a32beaaab2b6d880&amp;esrc=AUTO_PRINT&amp;mbid=CRMNYR012019\">read this article in the New Yorker<\/a> as evidence, this national magazines <strong>uses OHIO<\/strong> <strong>as the template for the defunding of public ed<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; you can also find\u00a0 many other post throughout this website in a similar vein preparing you for the changes on the horizon\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 <strong>the long game<\/strong> of those against public education is coming home to roost. Also, we are possibly 2 failed levies from being threatened with state receivership&#8230;for your consideration &#8211; at that time ALL OUR LOCAL CONTROL GOES AWAY AND THE STATE TAKES OVER&#8230;<strong>the state then supersedes our contract<\/strong>&#8230;any protections we have are gone.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>many<\/strong> ways this is a great opportunity for our members &#8211; one member that was ready to retire called this <strong>&#8220;hitting the lottery&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;some of our members could be <strong>walking away with over $100,000<\/strong>. More than one member is considering other job opportunities and using this as a way to subsidies a new salary. You are walking away from <strong>FREE MONEY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On thing we are hearing are concerns about health care&#8230;we are working at bringing in a consultant to talk about this with those that think this is a limiter. Off the top of our heads, some other things to consider&#8230;<strong>1.<\/strong> if you can retire and are within 5 years of getting Medicare, $100 grand buys a lot of insurance&#8230;<strong>2.<\/strong> presumably you will have those health concerns into the future, but once this BO goes away, there goes your $$ to pay for it\/offset those costs&#8230;<strong>3<\/strong> the sign up for the ACA is at an ALL TIME HIGH&#8230;<strong>4<\/strong>. if you do retire STRS offers more affordable HC options until you hit Medicare&#8230;<strong>5.<\/strong> life is short, you never know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>reach out to any of us on the exec team if you have questions, thoughts, insight to share.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many consider the buyout option the district is offering &#8211; consider this&#8230;public education here in Ohio is on the decline &#8211; read this article in the New Yorker as evidence, this national magazines uses OHIO as the template for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/?p=545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordoniahillsea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}