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Post by father of two on Sept 28, 2014 21:02:31 GMT -6
It's that time again. Petitions are available for anyone wanting to run for any school board. They can be picked up in the administration offices. I sure hope more people decide to run. Myself, I, have yet to decide whether to run for one more term or hang it up for someone else to step in. There are 3 spots open for the grade school board. It is hard work, hard decisions and an unpaid position. If you choose to run it will be for the kids and taxpayers of the district. It is still a long tough road ahead with many difficult decisions yet to be made.
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Post by dive61364 on Sept 28, 2014 21:32:56 GMT -6
you should add that its a thankless job and you cant please everyone FOT.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Sept 28, 2014 21:44:51 GMT -6
It's that time again. Petitions are available for anyone wanting to run for any school board. They can be picked up in the administration offices. I sure hope more people decide to run. Myself, I, have yet to decide whether to run for one more term or hang it up for someone else to step in. There are 3 spots open for the grade school board. It is hard work, hard decisions and an unpaid position. If you choose to run it will be for the kids and taxpayers of the district. It is still a long tough road ahead with many difficult decisions yet to be made. The operative word here FOT is "unpaid" position...isn't that ironic though. Because certainly IF it was a paid position then there would be alot of people applying to run for these positions, and unfortunately that would probably be the only reason then too. Sad that soooooooooo many qualified parents find NO time to be involved.................... M
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Post by Anonymous on Sept 29, 2014 7:44:57 GMT -6
Too bad the meetings aren't in the evening though. Same with the County Board. More people would run if it didn't involve losing time from work. That's not always an option.
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Post by father of two on Sept 29, 2014 10:08:42 GMT -6
Meetings are at 5pm now. I have been asking for later start times since I got on 12 years ago.
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Post by cityslicker on Sept 29, 2014 15:16:32 GMT -6
fot, you forgot to mention, one has to possess a functioning set of balls between their legs. Most of the board members have no courage to say "no" to the teacher's union and the administration. Token cuts here and there to the lower paid employees is the spineless way out. Go after the big salaries and cut away at contract time. A candidate will get votes if they cut sports, salaries and health insurance. I am sorry, your old ideas never worked!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 15:32:58 GMT -6
fot, you forgot to mention, one has to possess a functioning set of balls between their legs. Most of the board members have no courage to say "no" to the teacher's union and the administration. Token cuts here and there to the lower paid employees is the spineless way out. Go after the big salaries and cut away at contract time. A candidate will get votes if they cut sports, salaries and health insurance. I am sorry, y our old ideas never worked!! Not trying to sound like an idiot .But I think fot made the point that we could run for an empty seat if we felt changes need to be made.
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Post by dog on Sept 29, 2014 16:00:18 GMT -6
fot, you forgot to mention, one has to possess a functioning set of balls between their legs. Most of the board members have no courage to say "no" to the teacher's union and the administration. Token cuts here and there to the lower paid employees is the spineless way out. Go after the big salaries and cut away at contract time. A candidate will get votes if they cut sports, salaries and health insurance. I am sorry, your old ideas never worked!! \ As a taxpayer, I hope you run for one of the positions. You are going to run, aren't you?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 18:43:32 GMT -6
fot, you forgot to mention, one has to possess a functioning set of balls between their legs. Most of the board members have no courage to say "no" to the teacher's union and the administration. Token cuts here and there to the lower paid employees is the spineless way out. Go after the big salaries and cut away at contract time. A candidate will get votes if they cut sports, salaries and health insurance. I am sorry, your old ideas never worked!! I agree. Who the hell do those teachers think they are, anyway...college graduates? Let them all quit, fire 'em, or let'm work for 27K a year and no benefits. piss on 'em. Put all the kids in front of computers and buy Bill Gates' software.
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Post by ~MnM~ on Sept 29, 2014 21:00:10 GMT -6
So, will someone explain here to me why so many of these schools are all in dire straits? I thought that way back when the Lottery was first conceived that the revenues made from per say sales were to aid for the school systems, and the roads...........? WHERE is all the lottery revenue going to then..........can anyone explain that here to me? M
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Post by father of two on Sept 29, 2014 22:13:38 GMT -6
The lottery money goes to education. What the state did was divert the money they had been putting towards education and put it somewhere else. The lottery replaced money not put in addition to.
What has caused the most problems for school districts is the state giving districts less money for general state aid. If the state would find our district instead of at 87% we would have a balanced budget as would most other districts. We lose about a million and a half dollars per year as a result,
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2014 3:21:49 GMT -6
Butterbean, you mention 27k a year as if it is nothing. I don't think that is far off a reasonable starting wage for a Teacher in our community, do you?I think educators in general are enjoying a higher rate of compensation than they traditionally have. They are certainly paid better then they were 50 or 100 years ago compared to jobs in the private sector. Most of us out here in the private sector have been in some turbulent waters for a long, long time while the public sector jobs have gotten better paying and better benefits and retirement all the time. I think most of us are just trying to point out that we are less able to afford it now than a few decades ago. A reduction of even one Administrator would allow hiring or paying 3 starting teacher's salaries. It would just appear that things are messed up. How many well paid and well educated Administrators do we have? Enough to figure out a staggered release time for Northlawn to relieve congestion in the parking lot? Maybe we need a Dean of Parking Services to figure it all out. A correction is absolutely necessary. It is certainly necessary in our district on the top side. Cutting a few administrators would be a good symbolic start, reducing and capping some top paid teachers would be a good continuation. I don't think there is a doubt in most people's minds that we simply can't afford that level of pay and benefits in our community. I sincerely hope that we can have a School Board that will work progressively with the Teachers and Administrators to work out the many challenges facing our Schools. The budget is certainly a top priority. It simply has to be dealt with and more funding is not an automatic sure fire solution.(or even an option) Sure unlimited funds can solve a lot of problems, but unless you are the federal government unlimited funds is not a real world situation is it? We all have to live within our means. Wow...you actually typed that.
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Post by oldtimer on Sept 30, 2014 6:00:28 GMT -6
fot, you forgot to mention, one has to possess a functioning set of balls between their legs. Most of the board members have no courage to say "no" to the teacher's union and the administration. Token cuts here and there to the lower paid employees is the spineless way out. Go after the big salaries and cut away at contract time. A candidate will get votes if they cut sports, salaries and health insurance. I am sorry, your old ideas never worked!! You are a hillbilly.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Sept 30, 2014 14:30:50 GMT -6
MM, as an addendum to your post, we also must consider the cost of servicing that Teachers retirement, and factor it into the wage structure.
We cannot forget they got that plum of a retirement plan PRECISELY because they made less than what a private sector worker did, it was a "perk" for working for a lower wage.
So let's cut the crap, MANY of us started right out of College for those kinds of numbers, WITHOUT the plum retirement plan.
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Post by cmon on Sept 30, 2014 19:18:03 GMT -6
You sound as if you are jealous. Your choice to work where you do.
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