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What!!!!!
06/29/2011 10:58:46 pm
These times have relented to way too many concessions that aren't morally or politically correct. No one is saying that homosexuals don't have a right to live or cohabitate, but allowing them to marry is and will always be morally incorrect.
Krusty Krab
06/29/2011 10:43:39 pm
Too much money.........I am totally on board with you and so are a lot of folks........not everyone makes salaries of over 50K, but yet they have to pay excessive real estate taxes and school taxes and if they're kids do go to private schools such as my nephew did the full 12 years...no break in school taxes.....Someone needs to hit a big reset button and do more than put a bandaid 2% cap on property tax, they need...
guest
06/29/2011 10:12:26 pm
Teachers do make way to much money, so do the bus drivers, the janitors, etc. Let them work for the wages the taxpayers get and see how that works for them. $ 7.50 per hour is a joke. The schools pee away countless millions of dollars on "extra curricular sports" expecting the taxpayers to pay for it. Let the parents of the students involved in the sports pay. Can't pay, don't play.
And how about the people...
guest
06/29/2011 10:12:06 pm
Teachers do make way to much money, so do the bus drivers, the janitors, etc. Let them work for the wages the taxpayers get and see how that works for them. $ 7.50 per hour is a joke. The schools pee away countless millions of dollars on "extra curricular sports" expecting the taxpayers to pay for it. Let the parents of the students involved in the sports pay. Can't pay, don't play.
And how about the people...
stillin@hotmail.com
06/29/2011 8:18:29 pm
50K is before anything is taken out, including taxes, vision/dental, union dues etc...I get the feeling you just hate teachers so much, yet you have never spent a day, I will bet IN the school system. Perhaps a subbing experience would assist you on what gets done in one day. That "ridiculous" salary CAN be yours too! All you need to do is go back to school for six years, student teach, and then find a job! Come on,...
Dushawn W.
06/29/2011 6:32:10 pm
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Dushawn W.
06/29/2011 6:27:48 pm
Pink a boo
John
06/29/2011 5:01:10 pm
This shouldn't be so hard. We all agree there is a lot of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, and if we could tap it, it will help our transition to solar / wind / nuclear batteries and away from coal and oil.
Get a conference, in strict confidence, with a few drilling companies who have good records, and have them disclose their fracking fluid, and offer intellectual property protection. Then determine...
observer
06/29/2011 4:27:48 pm
The figure quoted in the article probably refers to what the cost to the district is - salary + benefits.
observer
06/29/2011 4:24:48 pm
50k is still way too much to pay for a teacherfor nine months of work and countless breaks. How much do you pay for health insurance? Not much I bet. Remember it is you that decided to become a teacher. You knew the price. An extra two years of education pays for itself on that ridiculous salary.
MrWakiki
06/29/2011 4:12:35 pm
Thought Dr. Cook's camera ran out of film.. great beach picture
Cindy
06/29/2011 3:49:25 pm
mm1palmer
Yes I do use a car, and unless I hit another one,in an accident I hurt only myself, not a whole nieghborhood, If I have trouble with my electricity I am far enough from a another building unless we have a heck of a wind again I hurt only myself...I have even ridden on a few planes, but the same thing, they crash they don't ruin the land for longer then you or I will live, or even the great childern...
Krusty Krab
06/29/2011 3:40:39 pm
Where did I get 75K salary from.......try reading this article that states it covers about 2 teaching positions for 150K.......not hard to divide by 2. As for collecting unemployment, its insurance that each employer pays should someone get laid off such as myself. Given this economy and never having been laid off for over 20+ years of working, I think that my employers have paid into that insurance to justify why...
Krusty Krab
06/29/2011 2:57:22 pm
machineguns
" ...75K" Starting salaries for teachers in SL County are around $34 K . Of course they start out $50K and up in debt after five years of College. Now, if you last 35 or more years, yes, in some schools you can make $75K. Be a little more honest in your comments. At least try.
But tell us, why should you get unemployment money since you are not working at all. That is not right. ...
stillin@hotmail.com
06/29/2011 2:51:12 pm
I have taught for 16 years and I still am under 50,000 a year so I don't know where you got our 75K number from. As far as the old belly aching of " teacher only work 9 months a year, have holidays and spring break and yadayadayada...listen up. Take this direction. Go to your local university, take out about 20,000 in loans for each year you will need to become a teacher, in NYS it's 6 due to your masters, required....
SUZANNE ST LOUIS
06/29/2011 2:41:00 pm
I think this is good that the preist came get married cathlic preist were the only one that could not get married
Jim McCulley
06/29/2011 2:38:41 pm
Education is a business right now it is business based on the communist model of no competition. While you may be right New York education is envied by other states, we pay for that envy and since the other states are in the same system, it means little. Compare NY against the world and you find a very different story and guess what every country that is leading the US in education has school choice.
Dan Hausner
06/29/2011 1:25:21 pm
Chris Strebendt of Potsdam pratices fire jugling in Ives Park in Potsdam. Chris says he's been stick jugling for quite a while, but this was only his second week with fire.
Photo by Dan Hausner of Lake Clear
machineguns
06/29/2011 12:59:01 pm
You can't live on a teachers salary of 75K?
I am unemployed and they say I can live on 165 dollars a week after my child support.........you do the math. Why can't salaries for everyone state related be brought to a reasonable level.
75K for a teacher that works about 9 months a year and every holiday, spring break, christmas break too.
This state of NY is worried about education...
Don
06/29/2011 12:28:17 pm
I have spent most of my childhood enjoying this national treasure, when a child we played a game of who could dive down and bring up the largest rock, now thanks to zebra muscles you need water shoes not to be cut to pieces, and yet economic interest still claim that international sea captains, working for foreign economic interests, have the integrity to protect our waters from ballast water with only an ocean...