Remember though, it’s for the children.
Speaking of driving, how does a school trustee rack up over $10,000 in mileage expenses in a single year? If you want to know, you might ask PVSD’s trustee Ms. Janet Kotylak who, including the high mileage bill, cost local taxpayers over $55,000 in pay and expenses in 2008-09. The board average that year was $24,670.
“for the children” is the equivalent of “nazi / fascist” in a debate. Nothing is ever for “the children”
Our Portage College recently sent 3 staff to California.
The workshop they attended was entitled “Dress For Success”.
Educators’ “Workshop” – biggest misnomer ever !!
Merely the cost of co-parenting.
Hey Paul, the symbol for your current (my former) town should be a giant welfare cheque, not that long dead explorer in the canoe!
But don’t dare repeat this out loud in the coffee shop. That welfare cheque trickles down to lots of high paying jobs in bureaucracy! After all, SOMEONE has to hand out those cheques!
Hope you’re keeping busy!
Yet you can bet they will strike for more wages with less kids in the class. These are not people who teach or care about teaching. Their leeches.
we’re witnessing the birth of a future liebral candidate
Wanna pi$$ off an “educator”? Tell them to take all their (cough) professional (cough) development conferences on weekends and hold their teachers’ conventions (where they get to learn the subtle nuances of ‘how to surf the web’ and ‘organizing your bulletin boards’) over the summer holidays!
The reaction you’d get would be akin to loudly farting in church!
How can it be for the children, when the focus of the lefties is either preventing conception or aborting viable pregnancies.
mike
You’re allowed to fart in church?
All of the schools in our division (PLRD#25) have top-flite VC systems. Why do trustees need to drive to central office? Just have the meetings in the evening by VC, outside of the regular class schedule.
“Educators’ “Workshop” – biggest misnomer ever !!
Posted by: ron in kelowna ∴ at March 2, 2012 1:38 PM ”
Yuppers.The so called teachers here in Edmonchuck are just finishing up a 2 day “teachers conference”. The guys all went to Yellowhead Inn(strip joint) and the gals went to Sherlock Holmes in WEM. On the taxpayers buck,of course.
FIRE THEM ALL.
I am a sales specialist at a major int’l hotel & resort company headquartered in the US.
If taxpayers knew the number of “workshops” they are paying for these so-called educators, their jaws would drop in amazement–and anger.
Many of the conferences are for the silliest things (diversity, multiculturalism, school food choices, womyn studies, etc) imaginable. Many are held in 4 star hotels. Some are even held at Caribbean resorts.
I specifically remember one teacher’s conference in the Virgon Islands at a discounted group rate of $429/nt (on the cheapest view room). She booked for 7 nts (over $3000) and that didn’t include the cost of airfare from Indianapolis. And she was anxious to work once she was down there–“I can’t wait to be sitting on the beach drinking!!”
Another one I remember was in wine country California (Napa area). Probably a 4.5 star resort & spa–definitely a 4 star. Apparently Gov Schwarzengger (sp?) cancelled the “workshop” and the teachers were furious. I specifically remember 2 of the teachers were enraged at Gov Arnold when they called to cancel their reservations.
They also feel very entitled. Most groups are for the cheapest room, and they sulk when they find out the rooms are City View instead of Harbor View (if it is a hotel along the water).
You notice the difference in the work ethic between the private sector and these teacher “workshops” too. Many of the teachers want to know how far the hotel is from Disneyland, Six Flags, Universal Studios, Sea World, etc. People booking rooms for a conference in the private sector rarely ask me about this–I get the impression they are there to work.
I can top you all. Senior administration of a school division sequesters all of the admins of their schools (principals and vp’s) for 3 days every year at an out of town resort for 3 days every school year.
Last year, they filled a rented cube van with the new furniture from a recently renovated high school library and trucked it out to the resort so it could be set up for 20 minutes for all to ooh and ahh over. It was loaded back into the truck the next day, trucked back to the city and set back up in the library it was taken from.
All for your children……
You’re allowed to fart in church?
Of course you are silly! Just let ‘er rip and glare at your new “pew” partner!
Not to mention those solid oak pews really amplify the sound! If you go to one of the more affluent holy roller/alliance churches, chances are they had the coin to buy the thick upholstered models, which would allow you to get away with a one-cheek-sneak!
pffft. practicing privileged pursuits.
that’s the specialty of the uber rich who do it by exploiting the poor doing things like lobbying for no minimum wage (and having delightful fun making side bets who can find the lowest paid employee in the organization).
we all learned it from the wealthy class.