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The following was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act of the State of New York. We thought we would share it with you, so you may decide for yourself just how terribly underpaid Three Village Central School District administrators and teachers are. |
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This page is being re-designed to bring you the latest contact info for your legislators.
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How Little Time They Actually Work
A Teacher’s Work(?)Year in the Three Village Central School District
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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.
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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.
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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.]
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Recommendation: That the number of persons drawn from the community to constitute occasional or standing committees [forums, task forces or the like], and having NO affiliation with the school district except to pay school taxes, be increased to reflect their numbers found in the general population of the Three Village Central School District.
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On June 7th, a Three Village Herald editorial suggested that voters should make known their feelings about administrative and budgetary foibles BEFORE VOTING, implying that the "silence" experienced by the school district is detrimental to effectiveness governance.
Well, the reasons for the "silence" are two-fold and the impact of the policy more devastatingly effective than imagined.
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Recommendation: Provide that veterans and the surviving spouses of veterans, police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty be hereafter provided hiring and promotional advantages over other applicants, when all other qualifications of such candidates are found to be equal.
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The following is an excerpted version of an article entitled Unions, published in Macmillan Publishing's Encyclopedia of Educational Research of 1992 and written by Lorraine M. McDonnell of the Rand Corporation in San Monica, CA.
"Since the advent of teacher collective bargaining 30 years ago, union
membership has grown significantly. By early in the 1980's, 88% of the
nation's teachers belonged to either the American Federation of
Teachers (AFT) or the National Education Association (NEA), and over
60% were covered by collective bargaining agreements. This growth
contrasts with the dwindling 21% of all private sector employees who
belong to a labor organization.
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Greater than $103,000,000 is being spent and they still can't get it done right. Why is that? Why is it we have programs like Gourmet Cooking, or Fashion and Clothing Design? Why is it Three Village residents are paying for courses providing college credit in law, forensic science and economics, while the average household school tax burden exceeds well over $5,000.
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No more fun and games: As children across the nation head back to school this fall, many are encountering a harsher atmosphere in which states set specific academic standards and impose real penalties on those who do not meet them.
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