We had a staff meeting after work today. Our principal we have now is no nonsense about staff meetings and he actually got through our agenda very quickly.
But, our building reps wanted to talk to us afterwards. Our district is basically firing all classified staff and making them interview to get their jobs back. They are also reducing most of those salaries by a great deal. Our nurse's salary will be reduced by about $13,000.00.
This is in response to a study that our district had done. They hired a firm to study salaries in other districts to see if our district was about the same. We are considered very high paid in all positions. However, the study was done on TEXAS school districts, not districts in our area. Also, the adjustment to the salaries lend themselves to giving upper positions at the district level hefty raises. So, the lowest paid employees of the district are going to have a lot of pay taken away in order for the highest paid employees to get raises.
There is a board meeting tomorrow night and one of our reps is going to address the board. I guess we'll see how that all goes then. If we do not come together and fight now, it will be the teachers who suffer next.
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