There are mixed reviews as to whether our students are learning anything or just occupying seats in a building while paying a person an atrocious salary to baby sit. But one thing is certain; the current crop of adults in charge of school districts are brainless heaps of cattle dung left in steaming piles on local roads…either that or they’re just ignorant, uncaring assholes.
Case in point: Allegheny Valley School District and their upcoming teacher contract. You’d think with all the problems this country is having with finances; with all the screwing of the American People by Big Business, Health Companies, Big Oil, and especially Wall Street and their Republican lackeys (not to mention the utter stupidity of the Tea Bigots) that some common sense might be prevalent at school board meetings. But that’s not the case. As a famous quote goes: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it!” Same goes for school boards. Did you ever wonder about the educational or mental qualifications of those who serve on those boards? You should!
Highlands, South Butler, Freeport, Armstrong (and soon to be assholes, the Allegheny Valley School Board) all caved in to the greed of the teacher’s union’s demands that the residents of those municipalities pay for the health care of people who care more for themselves than the profession they pretend to hold dear.
In Highland’s case, over 2 million dollars and increasing yearly, of taxpayer money is being given to the teachers for nothing. By 2015, the residents of Highlands will have given nearly 15 million of their tax dollars as gifts to the greedy teachers in this district. Why? Because the residents are too stupid to attend school board meetings and remove the asses who don’t care how resident tax money is spent.
Oh, the boards pretend to make big financial savings of some things. Fools like Wantland wanted and got a stakeholder commission to determine whether renovations were necessary (unnecessary expense and time wasted). Mental midgets like No No Wisner bitched and moaned about spending money renovating Grandview while championing a new, 30-plus million dollar building to benefit her friends (but she couldn’t see spending YOUR money for heating for elementary students! Let them wear mittens!). There are other examples you all are familiar with; cutting classes because they don’t have the funds (but, Heaven forbid, don’t even think of touching any sports funds!!!!); laying off teachers because there’s no money; closing libraries because the tax base is shrinking (but give away $10,000 to a public library that students can’t use during school hours!).
But all of these austere programs pale in comparison to the Same kind of Wall Street stupidity of giving people who make $50,000 a year basically free health care insurance.
Imagine what that 15 million could do for this area? A mill is around $650,000. Making those greedy teachers pay their fair share could result in a tax reduction of nearly 10 mills over the course of the teacher’s contract! Think about it! Your school tax could be less than 13 mills instead of the 24 you now pay. Nice savings, but you ain’t getting it because the school board insanely gave your money to someone who can afford to pay what you may not be able to. Instead, you have to scrounge to pay for your family’s health and you get to pay for people who work 9 months out of the year and who the majority take jobs away from kids over the summer. And the imbecilic Tea Bigots have the nerve to bitch about allowing those who make a million a year to keep their $300,000 tax breaks! What hypocrites!
Now Allegheny Valley School Board has the opportunity to help their tax payers. Make the teachers pay their fair share…just like the rest of us. If they threaten to quit, let them. If necessary, fire those who refuse to stop screwing the tax payers. Let them find out what its like to work in the private sector and have to work 12 months a year and pay for their own benefits. There are scads of young teachers out there willing to take a job for $35,000 a year and pay for their own health insurance just to have a job.
Will the Allegheny Valley School Board do the right thing and take care of the tax payers? I won’t hold my breath. You probably shouldn’t, either.
