Once again we have had to set up a new SAUSD corruption thread as the last one started to run slow with all the comments on it.
Our schools are in crisis today – not just here in Santa Ana but all over the state. The only thing we know for sure is that we are going to take more budget hits.
I am amazed that the SAUSD hired back all their laid off administrators. How crazy is that? Class sizes are growing, good teachers are laid off, and the union, as usual, is asleep at the wheel.
We will continue to reason through all this here at the Orange Juice blog! We can but hope for the best…
I heard the the superintendent sent a memo to the peincipals asking students not to watch the obama speech. any ideas on why?
I heard the the superintendent sent a memo to the principals asking students not to watch the obama speech. any ideas on why?
With all the budget cuts occuring from the state and the district, could someone please tell me how the district/staate can afford to begin CELDT testing again? Retired teachers are all being called in for an assignment that will last 6-8 weeks to test the kids. This seems to be another sacred cow coming from Sacramento. And I think of all the riffed teachers waiting for a permanent job.
I can’t believe that they are calling on retired teachers to do CELDT testing when there are teachers who need to be hired back. It will cost a lot to have the retired teachers sub 6-8 weeks. I have nothing against retired teachers, but I am just beginning my career in teaching and would love to be in the classroom with my own class not subbing.
This should be something that the TOSA’S do. Oh wait they are probably saying that they have too much to do already as it is. Well, you asked to be a TOSA so you should do the CELDT testing. The district is making a huge mistake by doing this.
I am a RIFF teacher who decided to use Cobra. I went down to the district to do the paperwork. I called a few days later to make sure that my paperwork was processed and I wanted to know where my bill was. She told me that she contacted my insurance company and that I will be fine with insurance. She also told me that she will be sending the bill out in a month for RIFF teachers to pay it. The reason why I called is because I have an appointment coming up and I don’t want to go in to find that I have no insurance. Well, today I checked my mail and I had a letter from Kaiser stating that my insurance ended on August 31st. I was told that my paperwork was processed already by the district. So now I am wondering if I will get screwed over by the district and end up having problems with the insurance company.
Any of you have anymore info on Classified? People who lost their jobs..etc.. I am hearing they are trying to work on getting some back. Just asking. Thank you all for keeping everyone informed!
#336 aka “C”
Read post #331 where it’s reported some SAHS students did not receive scholarship money promised and Mrs. Medrano is “avoiding” the telephone calls inquiring why.
Two years ago Mrs. Medrano had an office at Willard and a preferred parking spot.
There’s all this talk about Medrano. Lets say we rounded up and were ready to take her down. What would that even look like? Why all the fuzz? I’ve gone back and ready some posts, but it makes little sense. It seems to me that everyone just adds to her importance by bringing her up again and again. Just curious as to what people want done about it, so as to stop taking up space on this blog.
hey,
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& et al.
this blog is about exposing SAUSD malfeasance
so,
let’s keep this blog REAL & RELEVANT by exposing [bringing to light/blogdom] nefarious SAUSD plots.
I saw this on the NEA website where it shows that California has the highest paid teachers yet pays one of the least per student.
http://www.nea.org/home/29402.htm
Somebody must be feeling a little threatened by some of the recent postings because someone in the district has blocked the blog through the district network.
Is that legal?
Just wondering. Who is Bernedette Medrano?
362
Of course it’s legal, it’s their network and no one has the right to have unlimited access through their computer at work. Anyway, I can’t really see why anyone would need to access this site during their work hours. It is interesting though.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/funding-school-state-2557196-unified-qeia
Santa Ana schools might cut $11 million more from budget
Funds for low-performing schools are threatened, more layoffs possible.
SANTA ANA- Santa Ana Unified School District may be forced to cut $11 million more from the budget this year because of the potential loss of state funds aimed at low-performing schools, district officials said.
The funding loss, caused by a complicated funding swap in the recently enacted state education budget, affects school districts in California that receive Quality Education Investment Act, or QEIA, state funding.
Officials in Santa Ana Unified, with 55,000 students, had already approved about $29.4 million in cuts for the 2009-10 school year.
QEIA funds came from the 2006 settlement agreement following the California Teachers Association lawsuit against Gov. Schwarzenegger. The settlement authorized repayment of $2.7 billion in funding owed under Proposition 98 to California school districts that serve high concentrations of low-income students, minorities and English learners.
Fourteen Santa Ana Unified schools qualified to receive $77 million in funding over a seven-year period which began in 2007-08. The district has already received about $18 million since the first year.
Across Orange County, five other districts – Anaheim Union, Capistrano Unified, Fullerton Elementary, Orange Unified and Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified – could also lose a combined $9 million in funding.
Statewide, 139 school districts are in danger of losing a total of $402 million.
Lawmakers and educators blame unclear and faulty language in the new state budget approved this summer. The intent of the budget writers was for federal Title I funds to offset the $402 million in QEIA funding cut from district budgets, they said. However, the funding formulas for QEIA and Title 1 are different, and now most of the state’s QEIA schools are ineligible for the Title 1 funds.
“This additional reduction in the state’s budget was completely unexpected,” said Superintendent Jane Russo. “It is particularly discouraging because the impact will be felt not just in our 14 qualifying QEIA schools, but across the school district as a whole, which relies on the general fund to operate.”
The reduction of another $11 million in funding in Santa Ana Unified could force the county’s largest school district to cut dozens more jobs and eliminate programs and services, officials said.
Russo and other superintendents, union leaders, and other educators traveled to Sacramento last week to lobby lawmakers to reinstate the funds.
“When we were awarded statutory QEIA funding in 2007, it meant that Santa Ana Unified could rely on this funding for assistance in improving academic instruction and achievement in some of our neediest schools,” said school board member Rob Richardson.
“It also presented an opportunity to lower class sizes and focus on improving results in core subject areas,” he said. “Instead, the state has rescinded that revenue stream this year and essentially is expecting the school district to fill the hole from our general fund, and that’s not acceptable.”
On Tuesday, state lawmakers said they plan to introduce emergency legislation this week to correct a budget funding loss to the state’s lowest-performing schools.
More at the above link.
jane,
“Failure is not an ‘option'”?
Maybe it is an option…in a Mercedes?
Take a paycut!
Couldn’t someone publicly post all the salaries of the highest paid administrators and then let the public know that their kids are sitting in classrooms that are much larger with no assistance (now I don’t mean posting on the internet, I mean like billboard style announcement). And that these administrators are not considering a pay cut even after all the mismanagement. Also let the parents know that the district is seems like its considering another 11 million in cuts next year with no sign of pay cuts for the top administrators. How much does jane make?? $200,000? And the top legislatures in CA don’t even make that much. I think teachers too need to take some kind of pay cut also. Nothing huge, just reasonable in order to allow this district to continue to provide education.
366 and 367,
I fully agree that they need to take a paycut. In a lot of districts, I have seem paycuts at the top level. I am waiting to see if SAUSD does this. I want my job back too. I will work for 5,000 less a year myself because I just want to be in a classroom again working with students.
#366-368
The topic of administrative paycuts has been bouncing around this blog for the last couple of years. The biggest problem with it is that these people are under contracts and would have to take cuts voluntarily. I think we all know by now, since this is the second (or third) riff go-round with Jane that she and her minions probably will only take a cut when the state is knocking on the door to take over and dissolve their contracts altogether. Otherwise it is pretty obvious these are truly the “Me first” generation of administrators.
#367: When last it was reported Jane makes right around $250k (not counting her car, gas card, card insurance, and health insurance). Her minions make about 10-20% less, so it is safe to speculate they all are at, and over, the $200k mark.
you can add their overpaid secretaries to the category of “minions”.
369,
Couldn’t the city of Santa Ana or Orange County vote to reduce their salaries? I mean $200,000 is a ridiculous amount of money and its all tax payer money. I also wouldn’t mind seeing teacher salaries reduce $5,000 temporarily for at least 2 years to allow new teachers some hope of finding a job. Its sad to see new teachers studying to become teachers but unable to find a job for the next 2 years pretty much because of this economy.
369 — The problem is teachers’ unions. They would rather see class sizes increased and teachers laid off than allow any teacher to take a voluntary paycut. Unfortunately, we’re stuck within the system they created. They have all the power and they choose which teachers they want to reward. So teachers with seniority keep high salaries while junior teachers are laid off. Bakersfield teachers keep their jobs while non-Bakersfield teachers are laid off. Lousy teachers with seniority keep their jobs and resist merit pay while good teachers with less seniority would welcome merit pay if they weren’t losing their jobs anyway. It is inherently unfair for the union to claim that it can fairly represent so many teachers with so many differing interests. But the voters of California have let this system be forced upon them, and nothing will change until the voters wake up.
On another topic, I agree Jane Russo and her minions should take a pay cut. But that would still be a drop in the bucket of hundreds of thousands compared to the tens of millions Santa Ana Unified now claims it wants to cut. Why is it that only Santa Ana Unified is consistently faced with these massive cuts? Other districts like Anaheim and Garden Grove have faced similar issues but have avioded the chaos that our district goes through every year. Is this mismanagement? Is it corruption? Is it incomptence to run a large district? Have unbiased outside auditors ever come in to see how our school district has spent its money? It’s hard not to conclude that the best that could be done for the students and teachers of Santa Ana would be to clean house from top to bottom administrators on Chestunut.
#372
Since I have spent more hours typing on this topic (writing exactly what you wrote) than you have obviously read, my response is simply thank you for agreeing with me. On another day I would have taken issue with you simply for being late to the party and using a name that implies you are a “thinker”. You are. How can I argue with someone who agrees with what I wrote 2 years ago?
Hang in there. When everyone catches up maybe you will also realize the solution.
In a Register story regarding 1st amendment rights, a student from the “Orange County School of the Arts” (A SAUSD operated charter school) was interfered with in publishing the school newspaper.
The principal, Sue Vaughn, had a host of BS reasons as to why she held up the publishing of the paper but according to legal scholars…(and anyone with common sense)she was wrong. You decide.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-students-lomonte-2562603-vaughn-pullen
#374,
It turns out that Alegre foods, the food vendor mentioned in the article you cited, has received multiple health violations!
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/09/ochsa-principal-opts-for-censorship-when-choice-of-food-vendor-is-questioned-by-student/
“Unfortunately, we’re stuck within the system they created.”
We’re not stuck in this system! The union is YOU! If enough people stand up to the union then things would change. There are approximately 2,000 teachers in SAUSD, multiply that by a $5,000 salary reduction for everyone that pretty much comes out to $10,000,000 extra. That’s not even adding in salary reduction for administration (secretaries, principals, and everyone at the district office). Suggestions would be $8,000 salary reduction for administration that make $100,000+ annually. Then $10,000 salary reduction for those that make $150,000+ annually and $12,000 salary reduction for those making $200,000+ annually. This is just an estimate and opinion but I believe $15,000,000+ could be saved. Also this would be assuming that this would not be permanent, salaries would be raised slowly as the economy rebounds.
J,
I “second” your motion. I’m willing to give up $5,000 to help IF administration actually shows leadership in agreeing to your scenario.
And,
let’s see if SAEA will also show some leadership and reduce dues by at least 10%.
j — I’d be willing to take a cut in pay as well, but we are stuck within the system the union lobbyists wrote into the Ed. Code with their legislative pawns. Tenure after two years? Come on. That is ridiculous. Mandatory policitical donation to liberal causes? Ditto. Closed shop? Ditto. Bakersfield, which the unions pushed on the courts. Ditto. No consideration for merit pay? Ditto. Virtually impossible to fire a lousy teacher? Ditto. No discretion on the part of districts and principals to lay off low performing teachers when layoffs become necessary. Ditto. The list goes on. CTA has done all it can to promote its own agenda at the expense of students, especially impoverished and non-English speaking students, in the state of California. To a union, we are all just numbers, and they force school districts to treat us the same way. If a union is to be believed, no teacher is more capable than another teacher, and in the unlikely event that a teacher seems to be incapable, only a little coaching is needed to bring them back into the fold. Utterly insane. The people of California need to take back control of education from the unions if they ever want to see meaningful improvement. If not, all they’ll get is window dressing like QEIA, which is not going to accomplish anything to change the abysmal state of education in CA. The union may be YOU, but it is not ME. I will never work within the union to change it. I’ll only continue to speak out to undermine union power and hopefully get rid of the stranglehold CTA has on the education in CA and the future of our students.
You will never get teachers to agree to a pay cut. By the time you have worked in this corrupt district for 25 years you wouldn’t agree to one either. We have put up with so much “&^% for so many years because we needed jobs and love working with the kids – and really feel we have made a difference. Not to mention that you can be an excellent teacher in SA, however, if the incompetent principal doesn’t like you, you are out (save for the union). I am no fan of the union either(they protect the incompetent as well), but SA teachers DO need one. By the way, a $5,000 pay cut will seriously adversely impact a teacher nearing retirement. You will be there someday.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/elementary-program-free-2563607-students-school
Now this really made me mad upon reading this. I am still a RIFF teacher and these kids get to eat for free. Gee I wonder what will be next.
This just seems ridiculous to me “graduate grade 18.” You are sitting in a classroom with 5 to 10 more students and you don’t stand up against this? You just take it as it comes because you will continually get paid your salary. There are still 100 or more teachers laid off. That pretty much means that for the next 2 or 3 years there will be no new teachers hired. That’s ridiculous! How can you be such a hypocrite so as to tell you kids to reach high to the sky, become fire fighters, police officers, and even teachers? How about letting their parents know that for the next two years you will be continually getting paid your same salary because the district cannot afford to hire new teachers. That good new teachers will probably leave the profession beacuse of this. How about letting them know that there are 10 more kids in your room and that the district will not reduce salaries accross the board to fix this. Most teachers get paid enough! Just because you won’t be able to afford your satellite t.v. and starbucks every morning isn’t a cause to let education go down the hole. There are no tenured teachers out there fighting for the future teachers of california. The reality seems to be that you don’t care, you just care about nice dinners, summer vacations, and whatever other luxury you might have to give up.
I’m not just talking about teacher salary reduction, I mean accross the whole district(administrators, secretaries, etc.)
j,
Education in SA went “down the hole” many years ago and if you had been teaching here long enough you would realize that. In fact we tried to bring down a certain high level district employee last year (for various corruption reasons). We put a lot of time and effort into that, even got Susan Mercer quite involved. It wasn’t possible, even with proof. So don’t think think we don’t try between stopping at Starbucks for our morning coffee. This will be my last post to you as you obviously don’t “get it”. By the way, my suggestion to you would be to get out of SA and teach somewhere less corrupt. You will be glad you did. I say that as someone who wishes they had (except that I do think I have made a huge difference to my students – another reason why I can’t be 24-7 shadowing the district). By the way, I might reconsider if the entire district were to clean house and make the financial cuts. Hope it happens, but not holding my breath.
J,
I fully agree with what you have to say and have said. Those veteran teachers who would not be willing to cut obviously do not care enough about education. I am sick of certain veteran teachers complaining about any new strategies they have to learn or anything else. Teaching has changed in the past 20 years, so they too need to change, but are unwilling to. So those who are not willing to change need to get the heck out and open up spots to new teachers who are willing to take on anything. Now I am not saying that it is all veteran teachers who act like this, but a good amount do. Those who do are just trying to hang on to get the full retirement. Well, maybe they should retire now because its not going to get any better for them.
#381
I fought an over powering urge to comment on this story but didn’t because I felt I might come across as uncaring. But since you brought it up, a couple of factoids Fermin Leal got wrong (again) are in order starting with this quoted paragraph:
“In Santa Ana Unified, a full-priced elementary school breakfast or lunch costs between $2 and $3 per meal. Breakfast dishes include cereal, English muffins with egg and ham, and breakfast burritos with potatoes, cheese and egg. Lunches include spaghetti with meatballs, crispy turkey filet sandwiches, and teriyaki beef with brown rice”
Curiosity took me to the SAUSD website food service page where the monthly school menus are posted. First of all the listed price for breakfasts is .75 cents. Lunches are listed as $1.25. This is quite a difference from the $2-$3 PER MEAL that Leal alludes to. I wonder what the district charges the federal government per meal.
Secondly at a time when healthcare, child obesity, and fitness are all the topics I couldn’t resist looking over the menu fare. In the breakfast category I found these that Fermin Leal left out: “chocolate chip muffins”, “Chocolate chip pancakes”, “Bean Burrito”, “pepperoni pocket pizza”, “Breakfast Pizza”, and “Pan Dulce”.
For Lunches Leal failed to mention: “Deep dish Bean and Cheese boat”, “Pepperoni Calzone”, “Hot dogs with Kettle corn crunchies”, and on different days “chicken munchies, chicken bites, or chicken nuggets”.
Since I’m not a nutritionist maybe you can review the menus and decide for yourself at: http://www.sausd.us/14431028113745217/lib/14431028113745217/Menus/09_Aug-Sep_Elem.pdf
At any rate, it’s a good deal for the money, even better free. I wonder if some of the mothers still walk their students to school, toddlers in tow, and all sit down to one of these breakfasts as they used to do. Naw. That would be cheating the system.
The bottom line is that we are feeding crap to kids and giving it to them for free.
well tmare, if you want the kids to have better lunches then why don’t we allocate more of our tax money towards that?? Why don’t you reduce your salary, so that the money can actually go towards the kids and not your starbucks coffee. To bad new teachers can’t stand up for themselves and cry out that we need change. If some new teacher stood up to the system and said that we need to reduce salaries across the board then he/she would be probably harassed and picked-on by teachers and administration until fired.
graduate 18 — I’m sort of sympathetic to what you say, but I wonder what you would think of a solution whereby, if a teacher agrees to retire by a date certain, say within 3 or even 5 years, that teacher would not have to take a salary cut. I’m really not in favor of cutting salaries for anybody, but if that is what needs to be done to prevent Jane Russo from burying this district, and its innocent students along with it, so be it. She needs to be nominated for the Worst Superintendent in History award. I have never seen morale so low before. At some sites, teachers are refusing to welcome new teachers who took the places of others. At other sites, new teachers are refusing to allow themselves to be welcomed because they are bitter about having to lead their old sites. At virtually all sites, many teachers are teaching in grades they have never taught or are even uncredentialed to teach. Wasn’t all that grade-level-specific training supposed to be valuable for us? Now it’s all out the window. I am beyond baffled by the unnecessary and horribly disruptive changes. Santa Ana Unified is not unique in the problems it faces. It is only unique in the destructive way it deals with those problems. While Garden Grove and other districts find positive solutions that serve their student populations, our district only knows how to reckless, blindly and unnecessarily threaten. I am sorry that 100 or so teachers are still laid off, but why in the world did the district have to threaten 581 teachers and move about 300. The district’s financial picture only got worse, not better, after the layoffs were initially threatened, but the district still managed to rehire almost 5/6 of the teachers it initally threatened. Obviously the district was never serious about these layoffs. Jane Russo is incompetent to run this district. At best, she is in way over her head. At worst, well, I won’t even say it. She and her minions need to be thrown out. The next cuts should really be made on Chestnut. Even if replacements for Jane and her minions are hired at the same salaries, things could only get better. District morale is in too precarious a position and our students are too valuable to have to tolerate Jane’s incompetence any longer. I had high hopes for her when she started, but she has proved her motto a farce. She and her subordinates really need to move on.
Salaries won’t be cut anywhere until were at 40:1 and education falls tremendously and people start realizing how ‘greedy’ teachers and administration are. The fact that teachers would allow something like this to possibly happen would finally show the public that they need to vote to completely redesign this district…
#309… You have got to be kidding! Since when is a teacher designated “greedy” because that person is trying to make a living. Teacher “allowed” classes to become 40:1? That is exactly the kind of statement I would expect to hear from the DO. Let’s blame it all on the teachers! # 385 “jobless” get over yourself and leave the veteran teachers be. What makes you an expert on the way others teach? Unless you know everything they are doing, you have no business judging their techniques. Please people…. lay off the veteran teachers. let them make a living like anyone else and retire with some peace of mind!
Fountain Valley School District:
Two furlough daysfor all management and classified personnel. The administrator pay cut will save $61,050, or 3.7 percent of the district’s total budget cuts.
Fullerton School District:
3 percent pay cut for all administrators and trustees, including two furlough days and straight wage cuts. The administrator pay cut will save $278,000, or 1.3 percent of the district’s total budget cuts.
Orange Unified School District:
2 percent pay cut for all employees. The administrator pay cut will save $329,000, or 1.6 percent of the district’s total budget cuts.
There a several teachers who fought for their jobs and for the jobs of their colleagues. I see that some of the riff’ed teachers would like all of them to take a pay cut of $5,000 so that staff could be hired back. Why don’t you riff’ed teachers show up at the SAEA meeting tomorrow at 4:00pm and demand that the union (that took your money all last year and possibly for years and years) get you your jobs back? How about that?
Maybe if you quit being cowards and whining that everyone else should give up their incomes for you and you got up off your butts and confronted the organizations that could actually get your jobs back – maybe then you could say you did your fair part.
It’s so easy to get pissed that poor students get free food so that their parents can frivolously spend that money on gas to go to work or on stupid stuff like rent and clothing. You’ve got to be kidding. Look around. People need that food and that’s why state and federal money are combined to meet that need.
It’s easy to demand that professional teachers who escaped the cuts get socked in their wallets for you. That will put people on your side, right? You’ve got to be insane. You want to be one of those professionals one day so asking them to tear apart their own careers is not going to cut it.
But really, really, what have you all done for yourselves?
If you live in the city of Santa Ana, then you should be pounding on the doors of Jane Russo, the Board of Education and the SAEA union demanding that you get your jobs back as tax payers and as citizens concerned about the educational delivery methods of the school district. If you live outside Santa Ana, then you should do the same and maybe call on local representatives to get your jobs back. Or maybe just shut up if you don’t have the spine to get back your employment?
Here’s one truth: If you want to survive in SAUSD you have to be tough or you have to be lucky. If you’re out of luck, you’ve got to learn how to be tough. If you can’t cut that, then tough luck.
OOps. the SAEA meeting is today, Tuesday at 4:00 pm. Free dinner is served too for all you unemployed people.
Wilson teacher,
If SAEA did similar cuts you’d probably see a savings over several million dollars because the organization is so top heavy with all their friends stuffed in the ranks of so-called administration.
You don’t want Jane to tip her hat and give clues to how much waste she’s generated, now do you?
From what I can read here we once again have come full circle. The regular teachers that have commented for years are still here; the non-regular teachers still commenting here are the few still riffed and haven’t been rescinded; the SAEA, now that elections are over, is M.I.A.; classified employees still generally won’t comment here because they know “Resistance is futile”; and the parents that used to comment here gave up long ago.
To the still riffed teachers consider this. There, no doubt, is a reason you are still riffed. Possibly you mouthed off once too often to a ‘veteran’ teacher or administrator that held your job in their hands. Possibly you are so full of yourself in your youthful exuberance that you fail to realize that you are too inexperienced to know what you are talking about. Possibly you just don’t play nice with others. One thing is certain. No veteran teacher, long in the trenches, is going to take a paycut to save your job based on the comments you have made here.
Asking veteran teachers close to retirement to retire early, or take a paycut that will permanently effect their retirement, is beyond an exercise of pure unadulterated gall. If the roles were reversed you obviously wouldn’t do it so I don’t know why you would expect them to do it for you.
While Anonymous2 inadvertently mixed the unrelated topic on the food program with the riffed teachers, the other points are well made. If you want your jobs back fight for them or go find another one. The best suggestion I’ve read yet is from “Hmm” # 389. The idea of near retirement teachers’ salaries being exempt from cuts while the rest of the teachers, if they take pity on you, accepting a cut is about the only possible solution you can even remotely hope for. Personally, based on your comments and whining, I would be surprised if you could even garner that much support.
You obviously do not care that teachers are still laid off. You are just happy to have your job. Well, I wonder if you were in their position how you would feel. SAUSD has laid off every single year, but have always hired them back from what I know of. This is the first year that not all have been hired back, So just lay off those teachers who are still rif. They are treated with no regards from the union and the district. The union could care less about them now because they do not pay into it anymore. I know of many who have gone to the union to fight for the jobs only to have them leave with no hope at all.
“Asking veteran teachers close to retirement to retire early, or take a paycut that will permanently effect their retirement, is beyond an exercise of pure unadulterated gall. If the roles were reversed you obviously wouldn’t do it so I don’t know why you would expect them to do it for you.”
You know teachers near retirement could easily be exempt from a pay cut. What would you define as ‘near retirement’? You might as well put every teacher and administrator on that list. The fact is that teachers have not even agreed to a pay cut. Students have taken a hit, classified has taken a hit, but teachers NOOOO! What makes you all so special that you should be exempt from any change!? The kids YOU teach don’t have the programs they use to because you won’t take any cut. The economy is down, there is not as much tax money to go around so how do you expect things to stay the same??! Your selfishness is apparent and all you care about is your retirement! Period! Just say it, the only reason you now teach is to KEEP your retirement. You could care less for the students and future teachers of california!
The power is held within veteran teachers! New teachers cannot realistically stand up for themselves without being ‘black listed.’ Who would hire a new teacher if they were so effective so as to persuade the union? What principal or district would realistically hire someone who could persuade a union to cut the pay for greedy teachers and administration? Its childish to tell us newer teachers to go to the union and tell them this. You know we can’t and we are very few. The only way we now can be represent is either through a veteran teacher or the public. The public has the power and when they find out how greedy you are then things will change!
Can’t we all just get along? I know that “j” is not thinking about teachers who have worked for 30 plus years in a very difficult district. Sometimes you just have to accept what happens, especially this year when the economics are just not there. Most of the riffed teachers were not around when we took the 4% pay cut (I think for 2 years, but who’s counting?) for the kids, and that was a “flush” year for the state of California. One more time . . .SAUSD IS CORRUPT. It would seem that a sensible person not already having given at least a decade to SAUSD would look for work elsewhere. I know I would, and if I had been riffed, I would definitely be spending my time looking for a teaching job elsewhere be it private school or out of state. If you really “love teaching”, that’s what a teacher would do! OR BETTER YET SPEND ALL YOUR TIME BLOGGING AND BLAMING OTHERS!
“It would seem that a sensible person not already having given at least a decade to SAUSD would look for work elsewhere. I know I would, and if I had been riffed, I would definitely be spending my time looking for a teaching job elsewhere be it private school or out of state. If you really “love teaching”, that’s what a teacher would do!”
Why so you can sit on your butt here in Santa Ana and continue to get paid an enormous salary? So you could possibly take more money from the system? Maybe some of us actually care about the kids who come out of this city…Yeah that’s the answer, just tell new teachers to find work elsewhere.
Again, your students have taken the hit! They’re less programs, less staff to help them, and larger classrooms. Its a bad economic time, so why can’t you and administration take a pay cut?? Because you’re actually GREEDY! You don’t care about the kids enough to take a cut like they have.