Comment: That’s all fine and dandy for NEW PERA members.  Just don’t forget us old guys already paid our dues in lower wages and long years with promises made about benefits and reasons to work for 30 plus years in our profession to reap the benefits of these promises!  Don’t come to us later and change the rules and expect us to take it or leave it!  And in this day and age it will be harder as moron legislators have driven prospective education professionals away by making it ridiculously difficult to get certification or have ANY fun doing what is a rewarding and excellent profession!