Not what we voted for
The bill proposed, House Bill 1675, on the front page of the Times News of July 6, 2019, is not what we as Pennsylvania citizens voted on in November 2017. Those results were 53.9% in favor of the Homestead Exclusions Amendment! School property taxes were to be frozen in the first year and to be eliminated in the second year. Both deadlines will not be met. Just increase the sales tax across the board.
Also the schoolteacher tenure program must be abolished. New York and New Jersey did just that! If teachers were in the business world, these prima donnas would learn a lesson. Also a principal up to and including a superintendent should live in the school district. Local qualified people are passed over. Now we have principals driving from Moscow to Slatington.
Webster’s definition of a prima donna is a temperamental person who takes a delusional and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience.
No politicians should ever ring my doorbell!
Ron Scheffler
Slatington
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You call it "school teacher hate". I see it as frustration of Mr. Scheffler and a majority in the state. As for me? I wouldn't mind the extortion used to fund the government schools, but they are never happy, and ask for more, more, more. My monthly tax bill will soon exceed the original monthly mortgage on my NLSD properties. But what grinds my gears is the end product.
We have teachers giving money (union dues) to thhe progressive left wing Democrats, who turn around and use that money (originates from the property owner), against me (property owner).
Our students, on our dime, recieve left leaning progressive crap, disquised as "Education", and by the time they graduate, the've been thoroughly confused on myth verses truth, in regard to U.S. History. Look Joe, we have far too many young folks flocking to the side of socialism. Explain to me why that is. Between the mush brain teachers of the public schools and the progressive professors of the university, the kids are being indoctrinated, not educated. They fall for things antithesis to our Constitution, and natural law. That's OK with you? The high property tax is OK too?
God help us.
I'm not so much against the salaries, as much as I'm against the end product. PA spends toward the top of all states, yet we're below the mean.
In love, I say... Hit The Road
Teachers organized because they bought in! They were coerced in to it, and the free thinkers had no choice. You folks are the champions of choice, yet the ones leading you around by the nose don't give you a choice. Pro Choice my butt. Get in line, or get beat up! Did you ever see the exceptions to the laws that union officials can enjoy? Like the freaking mob! Strikes aren't rare Joe... where have you been? You crack me up! Wake up Joe!
There was a wave of strikes in 2018, West Virginia being the largest case of bullying, became known as the Red for Ed movement. Strikes will continue come fall. They don't strike for the children Joe... Nope!
Sign Me
Mike Meyers
Ham-n-egger
Make PA a Right to Work State. Defeat these Public Service Unions, which generate MILLIONS toward the Democrats (socialists). We need to wipe out the propaganda, and power of the unions if we are ever going to straighten out Pennsylvania's State Run Government Education Camps. The first Union we need to destroy is the teachers union. The teachers union cares nothing of the children, if they did, they wouldn't lean so darn hard on the children's parents with the extortion.
Know what the hell you're talking about before go polluting my air with your foul breath, you trumptard.
Thanks for stopping by Rambo
We live is a science/ math/ technology driven world, one in which the USA is dangerously close to losing our current foothold to countries like India that are "thirsting" for the standard of living americans and Canadians enjoy.
And frankly we lost a lot, just look at the shameful invocation in congress last week where a "pastor" invoked his invisible sky god to defeat his invisible demon enemies. We have gone from the nation that discovered flight and traveled to the moon to the nation that relies on invisible friends for safety. For shame!
Every tax payer should want to give more to educate the youth of the community, into the leaders of tomorrow before its too late...