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1 year ago
in BUDGET ISSUES: Salaries, benefits - the budget behemoths: Slowed growth pushing costs out of reach on Andover Townsman
Silberstein has no clue!! The Towns police and Fire department's are completely under staffed and under paid!! While we teach advanced Chinese in our publice schools and my child needs to wait for an ambulace becuase the closest one needs to come from anther town due to police and Fire understaffing in Andover. Teachers only work an average of 1400hrs a year with every weekend and holiday off not to mention the summer. Police and Firemen work an average of 2500hr a year and are expected to work weekends and Holidays. The average person living in town works 2000hrs a year. So I would say it's not to bad to be a teacher making $75,000 for not even half a years work like the rest of us!!Silberstein also doesn't mention that the sick leave buy back that she put's down for Police and Fire employees saves the town money ! Even I can figure that out by reviewing Andover's web sight one would think that a former finance commity member would realize this. And your wodering why the town's finaces are such a mess!!
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Why does the town manager contiue to get above average raises and bounses while the town face money problems. Who do you think got us in this mess!!!!!!!! and we're rewarding hi???? we should fire him!!!!!!! and get some one worth the money!!!!
Richard M. Hudak II
Dear Concerned,
The last time I checked, an eight hour day and a forty hour week were de jure, if not de rigeur in the USA. At least, this is an expectation. I don't know how many teachers you know, but I don't know any who don't work weekends during the school year.
It is a misunderstanding of the profession of teaching to suggest that teachers only work half a year.
Consider this opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times nearly two years ago <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/opinion/04lut...>. Modify it slightly to account for the fact that the essay addresses college teaching. But then, continue to maintain what you do about the profession, and I challenge you to it. Take a leave of absence from your job and walk in teachers' moccasins for a while, if you have what Parker Palmer calls "the courage to teach."
The last time I checked, an eight hour day and a forty hour week were de jure, if not de rigeur in the USA. At least, this is an expectation. I don't know how many teachers you know, but I don't know any who don't work weekends during the school year.
It is a misunderstanding of the profession of teaching to suggest that teachers only work half a year.
Consider this opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times nearly two years ago <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/opinion/04lut...>. Modify it slightly to account for the fact that the essay addresses college teaching. But then, continue to maintain what you do about the profession, and I challenge you to it. Take a leave of absence from your job and walk in teachers' moccasins for a while, if you have what Parker Palmer calls "the courage to teach."
