Wish me Luck!!! I'm going to give the school board Hell tonight!!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

Here's the situation: Our teachers, and we have some excellent teachers, are working without a contract. They have worked without a contract all year. They are also the only district in our state that has to pay for and take time off for, federally mandated con ed. They also have had more and more of their benefits taken away. Basically, there is no reason for good teachers to want to work in what is a blue ribbon school district anymore. Who has decided this? An overpaid blowhard of a superintendant and his merry bunch of underqualified board members, of whom have voted themselves a pay raise the past five years running...while smacking good teachers in the face.

How did Mr Superintendant think he was going to get parents on his side? By demeaning our intelligence and writing a lie filled piece of crap of an editiorial, comparing the median income from two years ago for families in our district to a made up (taking the highest paid teacher's salary and adding in $$$ for extracurriculars like coaching) median teacher income. So, he has basically told us we're too stupid to figure this out...in the hopes of driving a wedge. This man? He makes $70,000 more than the average family in our district...and of course that's supposed to be okay. Sigh....

[EFerrari]

1. Good luck to you. Break a lip!

If even math impaired me understood this, you'll go over really well! Take your helmet and give 'em hell.

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Thank you sfexpat! This has been going on all year long...I sat for

awhile, but my son's kindergarten teacher said something that struck a chord. So now, I'm on it. But I need all the well wishes I can get. :hi:

[EFerrari]

29. Well, you sure have ours. You Go! and let us know what happened.

[demnan]

2. Way to go, Mrs. G!

It takes really good determined parents like yourself to turn the education system around. :loveya:

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[Bridget Burke]

15. No, we shouldn't give up on public schools.

That's what the Republicans want us to do. I say, fight!

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Sadly, I realize that I am limited by time, the ability to provide my

children the education they need and deserve. So many are getting into homeschooling without any idea of what they are getting into...and their children are suffering for it...wouldn't you think? :hi:

[Heidi]

4. Go get 'em, MrsGrumpy!

And be sure to report back when you get home!

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. Will do! I'm making PassingFair come with me...

We're trying to get a large group of parents to stand with the teachers as they picket outside the school. :hi:

[Huckebein the Raven]

5. May the force be with you

:P

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. I need that!

Thanks DL. :hi:

[Huckebein the Raven]

40. Anytime

:hi:

[arwalden]

6. You'll Be Great!! I Just Know It!!

Will you be reading prepared remarks in an open-mike type of forum? Or will you be engaging them in some sort of dialog?

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. I am going to read a prepared statement. They refuse to entertain

dialouge from any but those who are in support of them. They usually sit and roll their eyes when parents come up. I plan on calling them on it. :hi:

[bleedingheart]

7. Your school board gets paid?

Ours make no money, nada, zilch...

Our township commissioners are paid very as well...only $300 a month.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. They voted to get paid five years ago...and have successively voted

themselves raises every year since. I plan on suggesting to them to forgo their income, for the sake of the budget of course. :hi:

[Tsiyu]

8. A pox on the Superintendant!

And I will send you Superior Debate Vibes so that the best words shall flow from your lips to his potato-filled ears.

YOU DESERVE BETTER for your kids and teachers.

Go get em, Mrs. Grumpy!!!!!x(

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Thank you Thank you Thank you!

That I will need. He has been extremely disingenuous from the start. :hi:

[ImpeachBush]

9. Be sure you get yourself a cup of joe before going ...

Just to get your stamina where it needs to be, you know?

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Or three...or four maybe.

;) THanks!

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Give 'em hell!!

I think public edcation would be a lot better if we eliminated all the assholes between the superintendant and the actual schools.

WAY TOO FUCKING MANY PEOPLE in administration. Total waste of money, and most of them are incompetent useless middle-management paper-pushing fucks, anyway.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. You said it...I could care less about Mr $100,000/year...

and would rather see that money spent on good teachers, who actually deserve it. They are F*cks. Eyerolling F*cks even.

[tsakshaug]

36. not all of us are useless in school mangement

I am the instructional technology department, without me, no computers or network

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. You, I have no problem with. In our district, you would be under contract

as well...and I'd fight just as hard to support you. :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. Well, you I wouldn't consider middle-management

You are actually doing something that's needed.

It's all the assholes we don't who add an expensive level of inefficiency and incompetence to the system and also provide nothing more than a barrier between the superintendant and the schools that keeps the schools from doing what they need to do, and keeps the superintendant from helping and guiding the school. That's the level of idiots that I want to get rid of.

Certainly, maintenance guys and kitchen staff and computer guys and the AV department are all necessary.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. I'm sure you are already doing this but get all your points

lined up and rehearse ahead of time. Not reading word for word, but just getting comfortable with your points.

Go get 'em, MrsGrumpy!

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. I'm also trying to get the butterflies out of my tummy!

:hi:

[shesemsmom]

12. Good luck!!!

Our school board is meeting tonight also to RIF teachers. We don't have enough now!!! Funding is being cut again but the morons keep buying property and building and bonding us out. You may have seen my post on judges that also pertained to the schools. We only have ONE excellent teacher in this school system and trust me he is over whelmed. The whole system is screwed up!!! Bets of luck to you, if you are dealing with the same type of jerks we are you have your hands full. I remeber a school board meeting here over bonding that lasted til 1;30 am with angry parents upset over the bonging out and quess what they bonded us out anyway, over a brand new school administaion building!!! None of the schools in the system are as nice as that place. :mad:

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. It's crazy what they'll spend money on, isn't it.

When It was pointed out that we had a 5 million dollar surplus...he corrected the person saying,"It's really only 4.8 million"...I'm really starting to lose it.

[flamingyouth]

13. Good for you!

We're fighting a huge battle here too. Last week the school district announced a plan to close 10 schools in a "cost-saving" measure that really won't save any money, once you factor in the costs of relocating all the students affected. One of the schools is the grade school I attended, and another is our neighborhood school here. Ugh. x(

Give that overpaid blowhard what he deserves!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. Amazing....

I was perusing the board membership and not one of the members has a child in our district at the current time. Amazing.

[flamingyouth]

41. That is SO common

And frankly, it's an outrage. I'm from a big public school-supporting family - my mom spent years as PTA president and was also the president of the whole consortium of PTAs for North Seattle. She wants me to run for school board - LOL - I don't have kids in public schools, but at least I care about them. :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. Good on you! I'd vote for you, because you are compassionate. These

people are sharks. My next door neighbor is a teacher in the district and is always pestering me to run. ;)

[bertha katzenengel]

14. GIVE 'EM HELL, MRS GRUMPY! Break a leg!

:yourock:
Give us a full report, won't you, please?! Good luck! :hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. You bet I will. Thanks so much for the thoughts!

:hug:

[shesemsmom]

16. Please post when you get back tonight

and let us know how it went. And remember if you don't make any progress to remind them they can be replaced. They wont worry about that till they get home and get into bed alone with their conscience tonight..... maybe

[ScreamingMeemie]

33. This is exactly what I was planning to do...I will not rest until I see

each and everyone that blocks giving these teachers the small demands they have made gone from the board. :hi: Thanks again! And I will post!

[joeybee12]

18. Go get 'em!!!!!!!

Let us know how it turns out!

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. I sure will!

Thanks! :hi:

[ewagner]

20. Good for you!

Sounds like you have your facts straight and can hammer this a-hole with truth! Keep him on the defensive and remember to strike FEAR in the hearts of the Board members by reminding them that they will eventually have to stand for re-election.

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. Election day is May 3rd...for the first time I am door to dooring

for school board candidates. There are two running that want to return board membership to voluntary...which is as it should be IMO.

Thanks! :hi: :hug:

[Zuni]

38. kick his ass, sea bass!!!

I'm with you, Mrs G. :hi:

[Maestro]

39. In Texas

we can not unionize and we are in the botton half for pay in the US yet we have been dealing with NCLB type crap the longest. The state officials are the ones we depend on for our big raises since most districts can't afford raises because of the diminishing tax returns and capped out tax bases. Anyhow, this year the stinkin' politicians voted themselves a fat payraise and we get squat. :mad:

[hfojvt]

43. first God made idiots. This was for practice.

Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain

Of course my dad, my mom's brother, and my dad's mother's brother were all school board members.