If I had to speculate on why that is, it would be because most liberal Democrats in the village--who are the main supporters of the school board and district administrators--have not spoken out for the school aides. As I have commented elsewhere, this failure to strongly support working people is also widely cited by analysts as a reason for Trump's victory over Kamala Harris.
All one has to do is look at contracts for these positions in neighboring (or comparable) Districts to see that the norm is to have a salary schedule that runs from minimum wage up to $30 an hour with average rates falling in the 20s/hour. Each year the employee advances a step to usually get to the top pay in 15 years or so.
The two sides are so far apart, I guess this was inevitable. And the issue is that these types of salaries for this unit have never been budgeted for, which is why the District can’t budge.
This town is famous for asking for certain businesses while not supporting said unique businesses when they do open. Or having a holier than thou attitude and not supporting the “little guy” when needed, and that has been the biggest disappointment to me. The lack of empathy from school Admin, the lack of unity and leverage from the Teachers’ Union and the overall nonexistent support from town citizens.
60 aides x $5/hr increase x 40 hrs/week x 52 weeks = $624k/yr.
Shouldn’t those sweet affordable PILOT dollars pouring into the district coffers cover that?
A little advice for the school aides if they read this: This is C-O-H, as left as it gets. We’re busy building our own little soviet paradise. We say we love you, we’ll even bang pots for you, until you want rights and stuff. Just like in the soviet times, they pretend to pay, so you pretend to work. And do what many of us did, leave as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
Thank you for the update. At this point, the school district is looking pretty shameful---but doesn't seem to care much.
If I had to speculate on why that is, it would be because most liberal Democrats in the village--who are the main supporters of the school board and district administrators--have not spoken out for the school aides. As I have commented elsewhere, this failure to strongly support working people is also widely cited by analysts as a reason for Trump's victory over Kamala Harris.
Outrageous, but not surprising.
All one has to do is look at contracts for these positions in neighboring (or comparable) Districts to see that the norm is to have a salary schedule that runs from minimum wage up to $30 an hour with average rates falling in the 20s/hour. Each year the employee advances a step to usually get to the top pay in 15 years or so.
The two sides are so far apart, I guess this was inevitable. And the issue is that these types of salaries for this unit have never been budgeted for, which is why the District can’t budge.
This town is famous for asking for certain businesses while not supporting said unique businesses when they do open. Or having a holier than thou attitude and not supporting the “little guy” when needed, and that has been the biggest disappointment to me. The lack of empathy from school Admin, the lack of unity and leverage from the Teachers’ Union and the overall nonexistent support from town citizens.
That just about sums it up.
Time for some crude, back of the envelope math:
60 aides x $5/hr increase x 40 hrs/week x 52 weeks = $624k/yr.
Shouldn’t those sweet affordable PILOT dollars pouring into the district coffers cover that?
A little advice for the school aides if they read this: This is C-O-H, as left as it gets. We’re busy building our own little soviet paradise. We say we love you, we’ll even bang pots for you, until you want rights and stuff. Just like in the soviet times, they pretend to pay, so you pretend to work. And do what many of us did, leave as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
The assumption that the aides might be asking for or getting five dollars an hour more is quite a stretch
Wow, if they’re asking for less, this is worse than I thought. I just made an assumption, did not mean to imply they were asking for $5 increase.