re: Vermilion Parish teacher arrested during school board meeting

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I don't know if that's correct in Louisiana. I remember a tax on the ballot in Lafayette years back that was for teacher raises for our parish.

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There is a local component, but its so low it shouldn't even be considered.

Here is Livingston Parish's salary schedule: LINK

A teacher with a bachelor's degree with 15 years experience makes roughly $50k.
Add about $2k for a master's degree.

The local supplement is $400. It increases to a max of $1000 for veterans teachers. So at most, $1000 of $52000 is being paid for by local government. Sure this can be raised, but even a 50% raise would give most teachers $200 a year.

In other words, local school raises are meaningless.

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Yes, but it's bad optics when you basically take a raise that could pay for one more teacher, after they don't get a raise.

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Superintendent is a full time 12 month job with nothing but headaches. Its not an easy 6 figure job by any means.

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I refuse to believe a husband would have let his wife do that.

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You sound like a muslim.

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Many are making it a black versus white thing,

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People are so simple. At no point in all of this have I thought about anything to do with race. But then again, there are many times when something happens and race has nothing to do with it, but just because it involves people of different races, people make it a race issue. People really do see what they want.

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Well I read up on what you said. Damn. She didn’t actually have an argument with them, did she? I understand their anger though, and it was still a bad arrest.

It is ridiculous that teacher salaries are determined by the legislature, yet the school districts can vote themselves raises. Maybe this circus will bring change.

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The local school board doesn't have the right to give teacher raises. That comes from the state legislature.

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So teacher salaries are governed by state legislature, but not Superintendent salaries? Sounds like a load of shite to me.

And as far as there not being much discrepancy between districts...well, I'm just going to call bullshite there. Salary schedules vary wildly across the state. Caddo Parish lists a base at Step 30 (their max listed) as $59k, while Vermilion is $53k at Step 45 (their max listed), or $48k at Step 30. St James at Step 25 is $61k.

So how does the base salary vary so wildly across districts? What is being set by the state if not the base?

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He's a school board member, they get paid like $8k a year

Not even sure they get a retirement

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I don’t buy this for a minute. We’re talking about corrupt Louisiana and all here.

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Superintendent is a full time 12 month job with nothing but headaches. Its not an easy 6 figure job by any means

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The raise isn't even the main issue of the whole thing. Im sure the superintendent is underpaid, just as the teachers are. The superintendent deserves a raise, just like the teachers do for the improvement of scores.

The main issue people have is that the entire board obviously didn't feel this new contract was warranted, for whatever the reasons may be. It was a 5-3 vote. Now, here comes the problems...

The board recently had a board member die. That board members son wanted to replace his father until the election. Fontana and crew appointed (not elected) a person into that board members seat, after denying the son. He put someone in the seat that would vote with him. So, the contract goes on the agenda and BAM he gets his 5-3 vote, and a raise for his buddy.

Does that not seem corrupt to you a little? Thats really the problem behind the surface here...its not so much the raise.

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im running for a school board spot

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Its only the superintendent that gets that kind of money. Just become SI and get your baws to run for the board. Then they can vote you whatever raise you wish.

Just showed the clip on Fox News