Why Don’t VVSD Teachers Pay Their Share of Pension Contributions? highlighted the fact that VVSD taxpayers have funded the teacher portion of pension contributions for atleast the last five years – an estimated $8.4 million in 2010, alone.
VVSD students deserve to benefit from the hard earned tax money paid into this district.
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Was the pick up of the pension part of a negotiated contract? If it was, I see no problem with it at all.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 11:30am, what are you smoking?
ReplyDeleteI care a great deal. The school board had no right to negotiate a contract that put taxpayers on the hook for 100% of the teachers pension contribution. It's wrong!
Are you crazy?
I'm not crazy. What difference would it make if they negotiated a contract that gave raises or picked up the pension? Either way, the cost is the same.
ReplyDeleteWrong.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if those guaranteed raises included part salary and part pension. How about no guaranteed raises, no pension pick-ups, and absolutely no pension increases.
Just because the board agrees to dump the money into the teachers pension doesn't negate the fact that taxpayers are on the hook for 100% of the teachers pension contr.
Good try, but you are wrong, and the teachers contracts are wrong.
No matter how you slice it, the taxpayers are paying 100% of the pension. After all, they are funding the entire salary.
ReplyDeleteHow about this, everyone pay to educate their own children. Why should the childless be required to pay taxes to educate children that belong to someone else? How is that fair?
Do you think that the spouses of teachers complain about the raises that their family members get or the pension portions that the taxpayers pay for them?
ReplyDeleteFor everyone that posts negative statements about teachers, pay, benefits... do you realize that there are custodians making $34.50/hour? Maintenance making $40.71/hour? Mechanics making $44.37/hour?
ReplyDeleteMany people are against outsourcing our transportation services. Did you know that the transportation contract gave 5% wage increases every year for at least the last 4 years?
But yet, everyone complains about teachers!
Anonymous @ Nov 3 11:39 and 1:43
ReplyDeleteI would like to know if either of you have taken the time to read the contract? I'm thinking that you haven't because all of this is spelled out. There is nothing hidden and there are no surprises.
I too would like to know why teachers are the scapegoats but no one blinks an eye at the salaries of custodians, bus drivers, mechanics and so on.
Anonymous 8:03am
ReplyDeleteRumor has it, the language spelled out in the contract is confusing by design. That's how the teachers union and bought politicians are able to keep the truth from taxpayers, and even the teachers themselves.
A simpler route w/b to contact the school board members and/or union directly.
There's no confusion. Look at the salary schedule and you will see IRS/TRS.
ReplyDeleteThe very next page will be the Supportive Staff Salary Schedule. It shows wages as high as $45.28/hour NOT including longevity or shift increases. Workmen in the district are making over $63,000 a year if they work 10 months or close to $100,000 a year if they are working 12 months a year.
Anyone care about discussing salaries like these?
Hello, Anonymous 1:38pm:
ReplyDeleteThe Number Crunchers certainly care.
We are currently working on a more in-depth investigation of VVSD's pension contributions. Once completed, we will delve into the Transportation Department's budget.
We will publish our results, along with the evidence to the community and let all of you decide.
Thanks for the comments, and stay tuned.
What about the janitors? We're paying them more to clean up puke than we are educators to teach the students!
ReplyDeletePeople seem to forget that "teachers" in all this language refers to those teachers who having been working longer than 5 years with the district and are tenured. For the teachers who are not tenure see the deduction for TRS taken out of every single pay check. We also see our medical insuarance taken out of each and every pay check. Remember there are an many teachers who do not get the "fringe benefits" and work just as hard or harder to make a differece in the lives students.
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