Comparison of Tenured TVCSD Teacher Salaries

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....

Well, that same document - Have you heard about the 5-4-3 Club? - is still stirring people's blood. If you haven't seen it, we urge you to get a copy. You'll froth at the mouth.

A few months ago, a copy of the TENURED teachers' salaries for the school year 2000-2001 was obtained per New York State and the District's Freedom of Information requirements. They were added to an already existing Waking Bear database and a salary comparison was made of TENURED teachers in September 1999 versus that at the beginning of the school year in September 2000.

You can see the results for yourself by clicking onto the posted internet page[s] of your choice and seeing how "poorly" the much put upon teachers of the Three Village Central School District have done, and the greatest single reason for your district's school taxes.

Click one of the following to see the salaries of teachers whose names begin with: A-F, G-L, M-O, P-Z . Then, if you prefer, the entire database is provided in a single file. Please be patient during downloading, as it is a very big file. The level of internet traffic and the speed of your modem will determine the speed of the transfer.

We will not belabor the obvious insanity of such salaries. You can see that for yourself. Instead, we ask the following:

Why, when they are getting automatic and large LONGEVITY increases annually, are teachers given the further 'burdensome-to-taxpayers' increases in SALARY?

Does the Board of Education think that offering early retirement incentives, amounting to thousands more in pensions per year, is an advantage to District residents? Shifting the burden from salary to pension moves the taxpayers expense from district school taxes to state pension costs. WE STILL PAY. And, the Board of Education has done us and the residents of upstate New York - who will have to subsidize our poor fiscal management practices - a disservice.

When will the majority of Three Villagers start paying attention to the voting turnout of teachers, their families and PTA pawns? What teachers, their union officers and teachers' families want is NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF YOUR CHILDREN, the school district as a whole, or that of the vast majority of residents having no connection at all with the school. You must begin to study whom you're voting for and what they represent. When you do, you will be shocked to see just how many of them are teachers, still members of teachers unions, and/or supported by NEA, UFT or NYSUT [union] funds.

When the elections arrive and you still feel that not enough has been done to reverse the trend to toward ever higher incomes for teachers or toward the elimination of tenure that inhibits layoffs, firing and productivity gains, you might simply consider VOTING THE BUDGET DOWN!!!

That will get their attention.