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Mermaid_La_Reine t1_iwrz4i1 wrote

Reply to comment by Mermaid_La_Reine in https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/11/16/haverhill-schools-cancel-football-season-hazing-video/ by bostondotcom

They do not need more taxpayer money, they need to better use the funds they are given. Haverhill School Superintendent made over $233k last year, and is budgeted for over $230k this coming year.

Do you realize Boston Mayor Michelle Wu makes $230k/year??

“For the city’s 782 full-time or equivalent teachers, the current average annual salary is $73,613 according to the School Department.” -The Eagle-Tribune

(Average salary for 180-days of work.)

Teachers got a raise two years ago, but because of Democrat leaders, we are in a Recession... so their raise was out-distanced by Inflation. (Huh? Who could have seen that coming...) So they pitched a fit for another raise, and homeowners will be the only one to pay the bill.

Meanwhile, the kids are failing Basic State levels and problematic. Tragic.

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JaesopPop t1_iws3ig9 wrote

Hard to imagine someone complaining that teachers are paid too much but, here we are.

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Mermaid_La_Reine t1_iwtrm2e wrote

It’s what taxpayer/parents get for all of their tax dollars... nothing. Nothing is ‘better’.

We pay a fortune in taxes for our schools, and the kids are no better by any metric, nor is there any safety. Where were the teachers/coaches/staff to monitor the locker room? (I remember our gym teacher would come in every 3-5 mins or so, give a time check ‘10-more minutes!’ Leave.)

Why are students permitted to have phones (cameras) in a locker room while others are changing? Nobody thinks that’s a problem—18yo with cameras with minors changing clothes? Smart people think ahead of the curve to prevent an ‘appearance of evil’, instead of cleaning up messes and saying ‘boys will be boys’.

If these kids think this was ‘fun’ to sit on someone’s face and twerk, and others cheer or nobody helps— they are damaged. That is not normal, nor should it be normalized. End the season. These kids are the fruit of Haverhills’ labour, and no amount of money can fix a mental instability.

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JaesopPop t1_iwu8081 wrote

> It’s what taxpayer/parents get for all of tax dollars... nothing. Nothing is ‘better’.

>We pay a fortune in taxes for our schools, and the kids are no better by any metric, nor is there any safety. Where were the teachers/coaches/staff to monitor the locker room? (I remember our gym teacher would come in every 3-5 mins or so, give a time check ‘10-more minutes!’ Leave.)

>Why are students permitted to have phones (cameras) in a locker room while others are changing? Nobody thinks that’s a problem—18yo with cameras with minors changing clothes? Smart people think ahead of the curve to prevent an ‘appearance of evil’, instead of cleaning up messes and saying ‘boys will be boys’.

>If these kids think this was ‘fun’ to sit on someone’s face and twerk, and others cheer or nobody helps— they are damaged. That is not normal, nor should it be normalized. End the season. These kids are the fruit of Haverhills’ labour, and no amount of money can fix a mental instability.

It’s like you lost track of what you were responding to a sentence and a half in. Unless your argument is that teachers are paid too much because of one specific incident?

Even then, I’d be interested in your thoughts on how you’d routinely temporarily confiscate kids phones every gym class. Also, if you think this would be a decision made by teachers.

Further, which teacher should have been checking on these students? The football teacher? You even mention the coach - you know this is a football practice, not a class, why would a teacher be there?

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