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Tenure Tenure
The great protector
A golden ticket
For the right to picket
Or use your phone
When you're with kids alone
Enough is enough
We need to get tough
And say no more
And if you don't like it, there's the door!
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Awesome!! Great poem and you got it pegged!
ReplyDeleteP = plenty of
ReplyDeleteC = cash for the
T = teachers
I find it very upsetting that the tone of this community has changed to teacher bashing. We have many fine teachers in this community (yes I know there are a bunch of bad apples) but my experience has been positive overall. I feel the leadership of the PCT has created this negative environment and is poorly advising his constituency. There are many teachers that visit this blog. Perhaps it is time for a new leader at your helm. One that will embrace instead of alienate the parents of this district. You have selected your leadership, perhaps, teachers, it is time to select a new leader.
ReplyDeleteI've been in this district for 20yrs. and the majority of the teachers are good teachers. That being said I still think that the teacher contract was not a fiscally responsible agreement. Let the board try to put their spin on it but the truth is the truth and the fact is you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. Turn out to vote and get your friends and neighbors to vote also. The community has to let Gary Bettan know he will have to answer for his role in the teacher contract. One board member who was part of that fiasco has decided not to run, good move Mrs. Weinstein, now let's send a message to Mr. Bettan it's time for him to go too.
ReplyDeleteThe poem is about the problems with tenure. Its an old-fashioned system of job protection that doesn't work. I can't imagine what my job would be like if people at my company were retained on the basis of how long they were there and not because of how well they did their jobs. We'd be out of business for sure!
ReplyDeleteThis is not so much as teacher bashing. I think everybody can agree that most of our teachers are pretty good . The Issue is the PCT union President Morty Rosenfeld and his lack of caring for anything else but the almighty $$$ and the outrageous contract that he got for his members . He caused this adversity along with the BOE. If the teachers do not like this blog then they should replace their union leader. Greed, arrogance and a sense of entitlment is what the PCT brings to the table . That is it. So PCT members complain, it is your leader who caused this adversity
ReplyDeleteDo you want to know what we pay every teacher?
ReplyDeleteHere is the website with the full list
More than 1,000 retired New York State school teachers and administrators are entitled to annual pensions of more than $100,000, according to pension data posted today on www.SeeThroughNY.net, the government transparency website. The new database from the New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) includes name, benefit rate, retirement date and last known employer when available, for 134,796 people collecting pensions in 2009.
The highest pension benefit last year went to James Hunderfund, who retired in 2006 as the Superintendent of the Commack School District on Long Island with a maximum benefit of $316,245. Additionally, Hunderfund serves as the Superintendent of the Malverne School District, his contract there -- also available on www.SeeThroughNY.net -- stipulates that he earn no less than $225,000 annually through June 30, 2011. Other notable NYSTRS pensioners include Frank Tassone, the former superintendent of the Roslyn School District, who ranked 33rd in 2009 with a maximum allowable benefit of $174,035. Tassone recently served a prison term after admitting he took part in the theft of $11.2 million from the school district.
A total of 1,004 retired educators were entitled to pensions with an annualized value of at least $100,000 in 2009, the data show. These included:
•2 people with a benefit between $250,000 and $300,000;
•11 people with a benefit between $200,000 and $250,000;
•60 people with a benefit between $150,000 and $200,000; and
•930 people with a benefit between $100,000 and $150,000.
NYSTRS pensions in 2009 totaled over $5 billion. The average pension for all retirees was $38,489. The average pension for educators retiring in 2009 was $48,238.
SeeThroughNY allows the public to examine government expenditures on the Internet. It includes the wages of more than 1.5 million employees of New York State government, public authorities, cities, counties, villages, towns and school districts. Also posted are teacher and school superintendent employment contracts for 733 school districts, state legislators’ office expenditures, pork barrel projects, and a benchmarking feature for comparing local government and school district spending. The site was launched July 31, 2008.
The Albany-based Empire Center is a project of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, one of the nation’s leading non-profit 501(c)3 think tanks.
A table listing the 100 highest-paid pensioners in 2009 is available here. (Note that the “maximum annual benefit” does not necessarily reflect amounts collected during the year. Some retirees began collecting benefits in mid-year, or may have chosen to collect a lower monthly benefit in order to preserve a larger death benefit for survivors.)
This the biggest reason that we do not have a capital improvement fund are in dire need of repair. . This is also the reason we have old school buildings that are in dire need of repair.
the exsuper of pob Martin Brooks receives a $216,000 pension
ReplyDeleteLast year in New york state 930 school teachers and administrators retired with pensions between
$100,000 and $150,000
60 people retired with a pension of btewwn $150,000 and $200,000
11 people retired with a pension btween $200,000 and $250,000
2 people retired with a pension btween $250,000 and $300,000
Without these outrageous pensions wie would be able fix every building and have smart boards in every class
So we're talking about only 73 people out of 930! The post prior to that said that the average pensioner who retired from education last year recieved just over 48k, that does not seem that outrageous to me.
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