From the Daily Herald morning news feed:
District 220, teachers agree on new five-year contract
Barrington Area Unit District 220 teachers will start the next academic season with a new contract that will provide annual raises tied to the rate of inflation. Full Story
School Board members have four-year terms.
After the rotten townships are cleansed, attention must be focused on all the captive school boards. Captive to IEA marxist ideology and taxaholism
Do you realize that some of the teachers (at least in school district 26) can not afford groceries some weeks.
Their income is that low.
How sad it is we pay so little to the people who are with our children the most.
The Teacher’s Union, the Administrators, and the School Boards should be held accountable . . .the Good Teacher’s are ignored and the Bad Teacher’s are praised. This Beast Must Be Starved !
The difference between teachers who can’t pay for groceries and everyone else is that teachers only need to pay for groceries, and do NOT have to pay forinsurance, or save for retirement, or pay for postgraduate degrees.
All of us need to pay for all that and groceries too.
Do you realize that teachers at Woodstock D200 make:
3.5%-4% annual raises
90% of health insurance premiums are paid by taxpayers
100% of dental insurance premiums are paid by taxpayers
100% of life insurance premiums are paid by taxpayers
109% of health insurance premiums are paid by taxpayers for 53 year old retired teachers.
Teachers contribute only 1.2% of salary to retirement benefit plan !
Compare this to all Americans forced to pay 6.5% withholding to social security which returns a fraction of teacher retirement benefits.
Taxpayers guarantee teacher pensions, with public liens on their homes.
Please, look at compare/contrast metric of starting-2 year-5 year- advanced degree teachers-vs-nurses before making absurd complaints about the multimillion $$ present value compensation packages of public teachers in McHenry County.
New teachers should be agitating to abolish the current system in which vested teachers eat their young.
New teachers would be better off with social security and matching 401K plans which immediately vest and are portable.
“The difference between teachers who can’t pay for groceries and everyone else is that teachers only need to pay for groceries, and do NOT have to pay forinsurance, or save for retirement, or pay for postgraduate degrees.” Members of the compassionate conservative grammar patrol, please forgive the grammar sin as I was quoting ad verbatim. Don’t you love it when the “education experts” on this sunshine blog continue to spew their anti-union agenda with misinformation and outright lies to supposedly care about the rest of taxpayers? We know these people all too well. They do not fool anybody here. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meow, meow, meeeeeoooooowwwwwwwwww…
Yep, there’s that Illinois theory on paying teachers again.
That if you spend $200 K on a Kia, that makes it a Porsche.
A typical Board/Teacher negotiation goes something like:
School Board threatens to punch themselves in the face until Teachers agree to raises.
Teachers grudgingly agree to sign.
2.4%-3.7% is a much better pill to swallow compared to the schools in McHenry County.
Now it didn’t say the details of all the other benefits so could be a much fairer contract.
And I am not a fan of the teachers pension.
ow the taxpayers have been screwed for a long time!