PLEASE EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE! THE POLLS ARE NOW OPEN UNTIL 9:00 PM. ALL WARDS VOTE AT THE SCHOOL.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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19 comments:
I was there at about 5:20pm and I never saw anything like this before. There were lines of people outside the door. I have no idea what this means but it was exciting to see all the people exercise their right to vote.
vote NOOOOOOOOOOOO
The people of Mullica Township have spoken and told the greedy teachers enough is enough.
Now teachers go ahead and strike, there are plenty of college grads with teaching degrees who would love to find a job and take yours. Stop being greedy. everyone else has taken a hit with either losing their jobs or taking pay cuts.
While I was standing in line I heard people stating how long they have been out of a job with no jobs n the near future for them. Now get real teachers and stop the whining......
amen 10:50
MTEA....do you get it now?
Despite the schools' attempt to keep the election low key, as many people came out to vote in it as in some regular general elections in Mullica. The results were loud and clear. Enough with the tax increases. The voters understood that this was a referendum whether or not to raise the teachers' salaries and benefits. They didn't believe the union's scare tactics that the kids would suffer if the budget wasn't passed.
11:11 AM-I think you are wrong. My children will suffer, thanks to the layoffs, discontinued programs. You aren't happy with the teachers, take it up with them, but your anger towards the teachers, has now cost MY children.
The teachers had nothing to do with the grant money lost for Latchkey or Christie raiding the coffers. Believe what you want to believe if it helps you sleep better at night. I'm betting you don't have kids in the school, so you don't care. I'm also betting most of who voted no don't have children in the system. I paid for their kids before I had kids and I'll pay for the next set of kids once my children are out of the system.
Maybe all employees in the district can take a small pay decrease of 5% across the board to help the school children. Since times are so bad, I believe everyone would accept a small 5% decrease in salary to help our community children.
11:51.....I have kids in the school and I voted no. It saddens me that programs in the school will suffer and suffer they will. However, the time has come to not be bullied. The teachers union has bullied us just as much during better times. Reasonable dialoge never takes place when it comes to the union so I voted for the hope that maybe now it will.
Yes, the 1:36 pm poster said it in a nutshell. No more using our kids as hostages to get what you want. Its time to stand up.
You will not have "reasonable dialogue" from the union as long as Barbara Rheault, "the rat", is heading negoitiations for the union.
Once again - DOES ANYONE OUT THERE GET THAT A PAY FREEZE BY THE TEACHERS WOULD DO NOTHING TO LOWER TAXES?
A big thank you to all Mullica residents who came out and voted NO to the school budget - when more programs are cut, when class sizes are increased, when the extras that made Mullica a great place to learn are no longer there, you can take pride in your accomplishments.
"Once again - DOES ANYONE OUT THERE GET THAT A PAY FREEZE BY THE TEACHERS WOULD DO NOTHING TO LOWER TAXES?"
No, but it will help to stabilize them.
I know that the teachers have sold people that they are the reason for the good school. Well they can't be the reason for a good school in one district but not the reason for a bad school in another district. So the difference is not the teachers or even the quality of teaching but the community. it is about parents, neighbors, the neighborhood. Teachers are one ingredient. Some teachers are good and others not so good and a few are outstanding in most schools. We have a community that always pulls together. That is what makes a great school. And the no vote was not a vote against the school, but about the greed of the teachers and the support staff and the administrators.
I would like to thank the taxpayers who came out and voted NO. They did this in spite of the fact that they were not invited by a Robo call. They did not have bios of the people running. The only campaigning was by the teachers at the dump handing out leaflets to get people to vote for the budget (OR ELSE OUR CHILDREN WILL FAIL!!!)and the signs that said Vote Yes. I found it interesting that in Berlin, there were lawn signs that said VOTE NO along side the VOTE Yes. At least one group of voters in South Jersey organized enough to get No signs up or perhaps it was the work of one person. Times they are a changing.
To 7:10 poster:
No - administration and Board have been peddling the mantra that any money from a freeze would be used to bring back staff that has been layed off/reduced - therefore salary cost would remain what was budgeted and the tax increase rate would remain the same - of course there is no legal way to hold them to that so the money could be used for anything - including more perks for the BA.
Actually, a pay freeze might not lower taxes but it certainly would help to stabilize them. The first year there would be no increase and in future years taxes would not have to raised to continue to pay for that non-existent pay increase, would otherwise increase as new raises were added it, compounding the amount of the initial raise. The larger the raise, the larger the exponential growth as salaries increase year after year. That's why you wind up with such highly paid teachers after they have working in the system after a number of years.
Barbara Rheault does not "head" negotiations for MTEA. She is one member of a 9 member team.
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