August 27,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, NJ Monthly rankings for 2016 – Ridgewood isn’t in top 30 – Why the hell should we pay these teachers more money?
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Reader says ,” High school teachers are now unaccountably sabotaging their own students’ grades. As in, the grades of every student in the class. This has been plenty nasty for a while now and the upcoming school year promises fresh outrage from teachers and administrators, adults chronologically, behaving like children.”
Thug unions and thug teachers trying to hold Rudgewoox taxpayers hostage for more money
If your stupid enough to pay 100mm a year for your school system then your stupid enough to bank on whay nj monthly publishes. Really people.
Hang Tough Board of Ed.
Stop kidding yourself 11:54, we haven’t had top ranked schools for many years now
The REA thinks that just because Ridgewood schools have a “tradition of excellence”, that they are somehow excellent. That takes hard work. This current bunch of teachers seems to care more about their annual wage increases and health care benefits than they do about excellence for our school system. Shameless greed given a BOE budget already north of $100 million even though the population of Ridgewood is little changed since we did have top rated schools in the 1980s and 90s.
Who even reads NJ monthly?
Perhaps prospective home buyers looking for communities with a good balance between the quality of the schools versus the burden of property taxes…
These teachers supported Obamacare and now they want taxpayers to pay for more of the annual “platinum” health benefit premiums? Maybe the teachers should read today’s WSJ article looking at growth in middle-class families’ share of overall healthcare spending, which is growing larger, and squeezing households already feeling stretched financially. The article notes that by 2014, middle-income households’ healthcare spend was 25% higher than what they were spending before the recession, with these households cutting back sharply on more discretionary categories such as dining out and clothing. It adds that rising out-of-pocket costs combined with slow economic growth and years of tepid wage growth in the private sector pose risks for an economy in which consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of overall output. So why do the teachers expect that taxpayers in Ridgewood will just forever subsidizing more of their health benefits, which are already better than the deal in the private sector?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/burden-of-health-care-costs-moves-to-the-middle-class-1472166246
Thank you 6;10. BOE hold the line!