The Waking Bear

Comparison of Tenured TVCSD Teacher Salaries

Monday, 05 March 2007 07:58 Last Updated on Monday, 27 September 2010 13:21 Written by The Editor

For the last few years, the Waking Bear has published an ever-updated article about the Three Village Central School District's "5-4-3 Club." When it was first released, with much fanfare and teacher union president - Sheila MacFadyen's - panic at a school board meeting, the then reigning and feigning Queen of Naught - Mary Barter - and BOE retinue banned its distribution. But, before all copies were ordered swept from view, several dozen did get into the hands of people attending the meeting. And, as the board meeting began in earnest, a man stood to say that he "took exception to the bombastic and insulting-to-teacher rhetoric of the document but found the information presented of concern and worthy of public concern." The Board essentially responded by saying "Uh, huh." and moved on to more pressing issues....

TVCSD Teachers Work Year

Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:30 Last Updated on Saturday, 24 March 2007 11:36 Written by The Editor

How Little Time They Actually Work

A Teacher’s Work(?)Year in the Three Village Central School District

TVCSD Success - A Credit To District Residents

Saturday, 18 January 1997 11:18 Last Updated on Saturday, 24 March 2007 11:06 Written by The Editor

Rudy Hodor, the now deceased and former leader of the Three Village Taxpayers' Association, had a dry sense of humor and a hearty, guttural laugh. He especially enjoyed irony. And we can't help but believe that he would now be taking special delight in watching the facade of perfection being pulled from the flimsily constructed walls of the education system. He would find in the vast number of federal, state and local announcements of recent weeks great cause to roar with laughter.

"Whatever it takes!" - A Proud and Costly Motto

Friday, 11 April 1997 11:10 Last Updated on Sunday, 07 November 2010 19:04 Written by The Editor

In the last editorial of The Waking Bear©, teachers were advised that they could not treat the present contract negotiations as though things are as they were. We explained that the harder they pushed, the greater would be their long-term loss. That they were in a "loooz-loooz sitchewation" from which there would be no extrication. But, alas, even the intelligent are not as often smart.

WARNING! - To the Demagogues and Local Extremists Among Us

Wednesday, 17 May 2000 07:21 Last Updated on Saturday, 24 March 2007 11:03 Written by The Editor

To the Demagogues and Local Extremists Among Us

The Waking Bear© has been expressing itself for better than five years. In that time, thousands of emails have crossed the desk of this editor. The following is a plea for sanity, which will likely be ignored but one that I must, in acting responsibly, make.

The fanatical "right" screams of the burden that mounting taxes have on them and their families. They speak of having to leave a community they have lived in for more than thirty years. They tell of how they managed to contain costs for education, in their time, and of how parents today make no such effort. They speak of the apparent thoughtlessness of the Board of Education. They explain in long prose just how terribly saddened and angry they feel about the greediness of the teachers unions and the blindness of parents who support every expensive proposal made by the District's superintendents - first from mary barter and now from john sonedecker. [The misspellings being intentional.]