BOE vote

[Jesse Buchanan]

Any attendees of the Thursday's BOE meeting with thoughts?

Despite the confusion, the end result seemed to make a lot more sense than passing a budget which the members of the board did not approve.

$1.1 million reduction is a compromise, which sometimes means nobody's happy.

Any comments on Jeff Leake's statement that Cheshire can afford to pay its teachers more?

[Jim N]

Any attendees of the Thursday's BOE meeting with thoughts?

Despite the confusion, the end result seemed to make a lot more sense than passing a budget which the members of the board did not approve.

$1.1 million reduction is a compromise, which sometimes means nobody's happy.

Any comments on Jeff Leake's statement that Cheshire can afford to pay its teachers more?
I've no kids in the system so why should my taxes go up. Teachers work 180 days a year they want to get paid more work more. If I told my boss I was going to work only 180 days a year if he let me keep working I'd lose what 30% of my pay. Oh and how many sick days do they get 30? So really they can work 100 days less then a person with a real job and expect to be paid the same or better. Disgusting.

[Meridenborn]

I've no kids in the system so why should my taxes go up. Teachers work 180 days a year they want to get paid more work more. If I told my boss I was going to work only 180 days a year if he let me keep working I'd lose what 30% of my pay. Oh and how many sick days do they get 30? So really they can work 100 days less then a person with a real job and expect to be paid the same or better. Disgusting.

Did you ever hear of the common good? Guess not.

[Jim N]

Did you ever hear of the common good? Guess not.
I believe in working and earning your way and what you have. Most of the time I hear common good it's being spoken by lazy people who don't want to work for anything they think they deserve everything for no reason. A work ethic is what made this country great once. Now the common good (lack of work ethic) is turning the US into a 3rd world backwater country. Welfare bums think they should have the same standard of living that people who work have and that's wrong. :cool:

[Snakebite]

I've no kids in the system so why should my taxes go up. Teachers work 180 days a year they want to get paid more work more. If I told my boss I was going to work only 180 days a year if he let me keep working I'd lose what 30% of my pay. Oh and how many sick days do they get 30? So really they can work 100 days less then a person with a real job and expect to be paid the same or better. Disgusting.

State Municipal, BOE employment was turned into entitlements. Real world goes out the window.
A Pratt and Whitney worker gets laid off, barely a mention. Layoff any of the aforementioned and its sob stories and How could YOU do this to me.

[Meridenborn]

I believe in working and earning your way and what you have. Most of the time I hear common good it's being spoken by lazy people who don't want to work for anything they think they deserve everything for no reason. A work ethic is what made this country great once. Now the common good (lack of work ethic) is turning the US into a 3rd world backwater country. Welfare bums think they should have the same standard of living that people who work have and that's wrong. :cool:

You appear to be totally into yourself. Like the seagulls in the movie Nemo, "Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine."