85% of the budget
Our teachers make up 85% of the operating budget of Pickerington Schools and you can see by some attitude here that they are not about to take any kinds of cuts in their pay or even a smaller raise in their pay because they are organized.
At one time in our American history teachers were very dedicated to the education of our young children. Apparently a new attitude has over come the likes of the teaching ''professionals.'' Some how they have become a ''special'' class of people that are immune a poor economy and other health care expenses. They are very willing to include in their ranks the poor of the poorest and then defend that position as ''is that all bad.''
So lets put some numbers to their raise. The school budget is over $60 million which means the teachers make about $51,000,000 of the budget. So if the school just raise another 6 million in our school levy of August of 2003 then the 4% raise these teachers will receive will take over $2,000,000 of the levy. Then we had 580 new students this year and they are stilling coming. Each student average cost to the schools is $7,500 per student which works out to another $4,350,000 opps our levy is gone.
The state has promised us an increase of 11% in funding and that bring us back into the black with another $3,546,400 of additional funding from the state. Oh! I forgot that this year we will be minus the wonderful gifts from the builders of $325,000 and the pay to play of $170 per child. That is 2400 extra curricular activity students at $170 comes to $408,000 and that means from the $1,200,000 in supplemental contracts we lose another $792,000 from our $3,546,400 or the school for this year only is in the black with $2,754,400 left over from all of the funding and levy increases from last summer.
Come July our teachers will be given another raise of 4%. Which works out to $2,192,320 Come August your school system will only have $562,080 in the bank.
Granted I have simplified this but we keep getting deeper in debt folks and we haven't been billed for last year's levy yet.
Our teachers make up 85% of the operating budget of Pickerington Schools and you can see by some attitude here that they are not about to take any kinds of cuts in their pay or even a smaller raise in their pay because they are organized.
At one time in our American history teachers were very dedicated to the education of our young children. Apparently a new attitude has over come the likes of the teaching ''professionals.'' Some how they have become a ''special'' class of people that are immune a poor economy and other health care expenses. They are very willing to include in their ranks the poor of the poorest and then defend that position as ''is that all bad.''
So lets put some numbers to their raise. The school budget is over $60 million which means the teachers make about $51,000,000 of the budget. So if the school just raise another 6 million in our school levy of August of 2003 then the 4% raise these teachers will receive will take over $2,000,000 of the levy. Then we had 580 new students this year and they are stilling coming. Each student average cost to the schools is $7,500 per student which works out to another $4,350,000 opps our levy is gone.
The state has promised us an increase of 11% in funding and that bring us back into the black with another $3,546,400 of additional funding from the state. Oh! I forgot that this year we will be minus the wonderful gifts from the builders of $325,000 and the pay to play of $170 per child. That is 2400 extra curricular activity students at $170 comes to $408,000 and that means from the $1,200,000 in supplemental contracts we lose another $792,000 from our $3,546,400 or the school for this year only is in the black with $2,754,400 left over from all of the funding and levy increases from last summer.
Come July our teachers will be given another raise of 4%. Which works out to $2,192,320 Come August your school system will only have $562,080 in the bank.
Granted I have simplified this but we keep getting deeper in debt folks and we haven't been billed for last year's levy yet.
