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katlade 
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Posted on: Nov. 07 2007,2:40 pm |
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What the hell did people think the district was going to do if it would have not have passed that would make you leave a good job and move to find a better school district. They are all Aren't all districts having funding problems? They are still required to educate our kids just without all the bells and whistles. I hope this turns out the way people expect it will - or they will never get another ref passed.
Of course I said that about the new High School. Short memories.
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CalcuttaClipper
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Posted on: Nov. 07 2007,5:07 pm |
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Quick survey, How many of you or anyone you know would of lost their job if the referendum didnt pass,.....
Obviously most of us agree the money isnt spent the ways it should be.. thats why the community needs to get out to these meetings and express concerns and be involved..
I know family members that lost their job because referendums in their school district did not pass...I am happy it passed here in Albert Lea so those that would of been cut, can stay on board and earn an income to support their family....
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Posted on: Nov. 07 2007,8:29 pm |
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Stop yer whining and pay up! Someone else payed for your tight fisted right wing butts to go to school! Too bad you only learned to care about yourselves, and not the people you are going to expect to take care of you in your old age!
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OK everybody.... STOP.Take a breath. Take a look around you, and see whats actually happening.
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wildjim
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Posted on: Nov. 07 2007,9:38 pm |
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Man people here can be soooo harsh. The Harms were renting thinking one of them would be out of a job. They are now going to buy a house. I don't think this story should have made anyone vot yes yes or no no. But it is interesting. Take a breath. And no, not all districts have the same funding problems. Some are better and some are worse. But good people have choices. Somewhere someone posted about Mr and Mrs Fitz leaving and noted that they left because he got an admin job. Close. After the music cuts were made they deceided to leave. Geneva got a job in no time in a metro school. Scott did not have a job yet in fact did not line one up for a month or two later. I understand that in the school at which she teaches there are two teachers for about the same number of students she had here. So no, not all schools have the same funding challanges.
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Botto 82
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Posted on: Nov. 08 2007,1:34 am |
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I read this on the AM1500 forum on a thread about all the referenda this election cycle, and I couldn't have said it better.
QUOTE My opinion? I think no public employee should earn more than the median wage of the average citizen in the community in which they work. Radical? Yeah, I guess it is but it would sure be interesting to see what these public employees would do if they had to work a minimum of 2080 (I averaged 3,000 hours last year) hours a year like we do and had benefits and pensions equivalent to what the average citizen has. I somehow think that public "service" would lose its appeal rather quickly and 'the kids' wouldn't need so much.
I've attended numerous school board meetings and forums geared toward 'informing the public' as to where the money goes and also where additional money would go. You will never get a straight answer and if you inquire about wages, benefits, salaries, tenure, step and lane, total hours worked and such, you get the cold stare of offended do-gooders throughout the auditorium. I am left to wonder if the kids they continually refer to as beneficiaries of our community's generosity are their own kids and not the general student body.
What's the current retirement package offered by District 241?
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bianca
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Posted on: Nov. 09 2007,6:48 am |
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^Public school or private?
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Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. — Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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ALRox
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Posted on: Nov. 09 2007,9:19 am |
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Geneva is in the Minnetonka system....public school.
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