What is being done to assist those teachers that are Synodicaly trained who for tax reasons only have not re-signed roster? There are many of us caught in catch 22 situations! We we're schooled at Concordia Universities before the tax laws changed. It's not our fault that Synod changed the status designations of these teachers. We're no longer recognized as church workers? We were rostered before. Now we're candidates again?

Obviously it was important enough for us to train at Concordia and pay nearly double feature our education for the opportunity to be on Roster. We are choosing to work in congregations instead of union backed public schools for at least double the wages!

Something needs to be done to fix this! Roster qualified teachers -either on or off Roster simply because of not being able to afford to pay more taxes because of housing status (renting or do not own a home) do not deserve to have been removed from Roster!

Dr. Harrison, please do something about this situation! I understand that you cannot change the tax code! However, I don't believeyou understand how deeply this affected those of us that were summarily removed from roster and are now treated as "second-class citizens" by the LCMS!