Posted on 02/19/2010 8:25:37 AM PST by Tribune7
The oppressed masses in the Rose Tree Media Education Association -- the union the covers teachers, school nurses and guidance counselors in the Rose Tree Media School District (PA) -- voted to strike Wednesday.
Obviously, the working conditions in the district must be horrible for these caring professionals to take the drastic step of harming a child's education.
And they are! Consider the plight of Springton Lake Middle School physical education teacher Stephen Adams. His salary was $87,329 in 2009. And that was for 195 days grueling days of teaching gym class. Granted, he also gets benefits but can't you understand why he might have to vote to hurt a child with working conditions such as that?
(Excerpt) Read more at billlawrenceonline.com ...
Links to teachers salaries at the link. Great resource. Does anybody know of a N.J. ping list?
Our school district in PA was at $85K for 10 years experience and a masters degree, and that was 6 years ago....one Kindergarten teacher was making $101K.... seriously, I laughed too.
Every government employee should have their salary disclosed. In the ‘80s they got huge increases because it was sooooo important to have our children edumacated by high-priced professionals
I hope the Gov slices and dices those unions. I read a lot of them don’t pay a dime for their benefits which includes health care.
This is a scam big time and is costing the taxpayer a lot of money we don’t need to spend.
one Kindergarten teacher was making $101K.... seriously, I laughed too.
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It is time to cry.
They also need to look at those pensions and change them.
Plus you get the great perks like getting to watch your students strip at home on the school issued webcams!
Seriously, all military, GS, WG wages are available, but I have no clue what a particular bureaucrat makes.
Every goverment service person who a citizen has to deal with should have a prominent sign on their desk which says:
"My salary is ___________, paid for by your tax dollars. How may I serve you?"
My wife is a first grade teacher here in Mississippi in a great conservative county. She makes 40K after 16 years of service.
And some wonder why people want to leave Pa.
Every government employee should have their salary disclosed.
I was living in Ohio some years ago when one of the local papers got hold of the salary figures from several state universities and published those numbers. They were public record, but when it became widely known how much money we were paying to tenured professors in esoteric subjects, it really hit the fan.
Every four years with the election of the President a new patronage book is published. Although not all the jobs in this book are actually "patronage" they carrier large enough salaries that "someone might want to know".
I made it a few times back in the days before they finally decided that no one wanted to bother trying to get a job in the USPS.
The document is usually referred to as "The Plum Book"
Take a look at http://www.transitionjobs.us/numbers-federal-budget-process
Yeah that is about par for Texas too, except for football coaches, who have salaries rivaling superintendents in some districts.
It’s such a scandal. Add this to the benes they get and good heavens! This gravy train has to come to a screeching halt.
It’s possible to look up most Federal jobs online. I was surprised to find a friend’s pay online. It was good, but less than many of these teachers.
It can hard to compare district to district across a state or across the country. Some are very wealthy and pay a premium to get the best teachers.
In the district that includes Chesterbrook PA (big money NW of Philly) New hires have 4 years to earn a master’s degree or they are dismissed. If you are not dedicated enough to go to school nights and summers, your not their kind of teacher.
Just saying, local control is a good thing.
One of the VERY BEST ideas I have heard in a long time!
Someone said to also consider the pension cost and the benefits cost...it would probably make the salaries pale by comparison.
The present cost of each $10,000 in pension is about $130,000 to you and me. The math is easy enough on any pension calculator. This means that about 25% of the person’s salary must be set aside to provide this much cash to liquidate over a 35 year retirement.
http://www.bloomberg.com/invest/calculators/retire.html
I remember my uncle telling me about the Social Studies teachers from Central Bucks HS (now West) back in the mid 50s.
They used to play cards at a local tavern, buy one beer and take up an entire table sucking on their nickle beer because they were too cheap to buy another.
They waited until a working man came in and bought a round for the house then their mugs were emptied immediately.
Owner was asked to toss them out on multiple occasions and said he couldn’t do it even way back then. Nobody talked to these losers.
I knew those teachers, they were some of the worst among losers. It wasn’t respectable for men to be teachers that was why the government had to establish Penn State and Mich State as teacher’s colleges around 1853.
They ALL should have been fired when they threatened to strike the first time. Had been illegal but I think the law changed under Gov Schapp (Jerrold Electronics, now Motorola, they make cable boxes).
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