re: Livingston Parish 1% tax for teacher raises fails to pass

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This will cause teacher shortages in the near future.

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If there is a shortage it will be the fault of the school board, not the citizens. The school boards gives it teachers ZERO support. My wife is a former LP teacher and she refuses to teach in the parish again due to how the parish treated her.

Boy the teachers are hot about this one on the Facebook.

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Well, if GRT's post is accurate than we pay 50% more for EBR students than LP. What is the right amount? Because there doesn't seem to be a positive correlation between funding and results.

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The two things are not that connected. We can still take pride in our schools, pay professionals well, and not participate in a race to the bottom.

I'm not sure the "oh yeah what you gonna do? go to Baton Rouge? lol" approach is the winning approach.

OTers mostly agree that making less than $100k sucks so it's fascinating to watch them act like teachers make good salaries.

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Any chance you can give specifics on how the school board wastes?

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Well first off would be all the signs the school board paid for and stuck up all over LP only to be told they had to remove them.

That being said, I bet more of the reason for voting the tax down was because taxpayers are smart enough to figure out there was something missing from the accounting school board members were releasing about this pay raise for teachers. The missing element was the future impact on the retirement cost which Murphy seemed to completely ignore. There was also plenty of other fuzzy math that had people I know in LP concerned enough to turn it down.

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Well first off would be all the signs the school board paid for and stuck up all over LP only to be told they had to remove them

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You are like CNN all misinformation. The only signs that had to be moved were the ones at the polls on the day of voting. I called the clerk of courts and checked on that when people started claiming this.

The retirement and benefits would be covered. That has been stated and proved.

There was something missing and seemed fuzzy. Lol glad you could really pin down the waste.

ETA: how do you down vote this? Everything I posted was fact checked. Some refuse to see truth if it goes against there narrative.

I apologize for that. It was a cheap shot. Purely anecdotal on my part, the teachers I’ve known that have been good had mostly good experiences, teachers that weren’t good had poorer experiences. Hope your wife continues to do well.

ETA: I will say my experience with LP schools and even school board has been overwhelmingly positive from an employer for my wife to educator of my kids. Wish we could have stayed.

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I apologize for that. It was a cheap shot. Purely anecdotal on my part, the teachers I’ve known that have been good had mostly good experiences, teachers that weren’t good had poorer experiences. Hope your wife continues to do well.

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Thank you. The husband of my wife’s principal at her former school sat on the school board so a lot of issues at her school were being covered up. Said principal got away with a lot of things and ended up running off over 20 teachers at the end of the year including my wife. I know very school is different but alot of bridges were burned because of that school.

The new BRPD Tahoe is well over $100K

So schools continue to thrive, property values don’t fall, better educated public= less crime????

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So schools continue to thrive, property values don’t fall, better educated public= less crime????

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So tack on another 1% to one of the highest sales taxes in the country while sales tax is already bringing in more money due to inflation. If schools were proactive about getting rid of the dog shite teachers, I think people would be far, far more willing to pay.