Considering the salary, health bennies, and pension the teacher draws for 180 days of work a year, this is pretty funny.
A pox on both their houses.
We have some supers that make more than the President!
Please post the state the article is taking place in next time - it makes it easier to understand the circumstances of the story.
an English language arts teacher===Inflated title to improve lacking self esteem.
School Superintendents, the country’s highest-paid migrant workers.
She is going to get a raise.
“Payou says that the board won’t press charges against Hargrave.”
That is rich!!!! Who says that they can? Maybe she will press charges on them.
Sounds like business as usual in Louisiana.....
School board is the easiest elected office in this country to kick an incumbent out of. Anyone can spend a little time and effort and effect change on a school board.
I assume this will result in some personnel changes on the school board. And police department.
I’m reminded of this scene in Star Trek 5:
Kirk: What does God need with a starship?
[Shoots Kirk with lightning]
Spock: You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?
“God”: [shoots Spock with lightning; then addresses McCoy] Do you doubt me?
Every city council has rules for public comments and questions.
The council is not there to debate one citizen. The woman in the video is not special.
There’s a time limit on public comments. Where I live it’s two minutes. If you insist on ignoring the rules and continue your diatribe you will be removed by the police. That’s true just about everywhere. The topic is irrelevant.
It’s a matter of practicality, sometimes 50 or more (always a few nut jobs in the group who ramble incoherently, too) citizens are lined up to comment.
Should they all be allowed to talk for as long as they want?
I’ve had to sit through some of these meetings for my work. They can be a nightmare.
Rules are needed, and they must be enforced.
Public education has become such a morass of corruption, pc, inefficiency and incompetence. I would love the Trump administration to simpllfy it to excel as the best private schools do.
Not defending anyone here, but as a former City Manager, these types of questions are to be addressed during union negotiations. If she’s unhappy about her pay and benefits, then it’s on her union reps to address this during bargaining.
That being said, I would have let her speak, advised the board that this is not a bargaining session, and then moved on to the next agenda item.
Not defending anyone here, but as a former City Manager, these types of questions are to be addressed during union negotiations. If she’s unhappy about her pay and benefits, then it’s on her union reps to address this during bargaining.
That being said, I would have let her speak, advised the board that this is not a bargaining session, and then moved on to the next agenda item.
Story has gone viral worldwide
https://news.google.com/news/story/d7c31inQt69qHMMOxiSqFq4cpiBEM?hl=en&ned=us&gl=US
Whoever the person who said “this is not a question and answer session” was way out of line. What is the point of having a public meeting if not to allow people to ask questions and get answers? And she wasn’t the only teacher or parent to speak out regarding the superintendent’s raise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sg8lY-leE8
It seems to me that the majority of school board had already decided to give the superintendent the big raise and wasn’t interested in whatever anyone had to say about it, teachers or parents in attendance. So why bother having a public meeting if the public is not allowed to speak?
And there was no reason whatsoever that I saw that she should have been handcuffed and arrested for raising her hand, being called on, and recognized and asking a legitimate follow up question. And the marshal was way out of line, not only in arresting her but doing so without being directly asked to do so as she was not disrupting the meeting but only asking a followup question to which she had been recognized to do.
This was IMO an egregious violation of her 1st amendment rights.