Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee talks on the phone as a woman asks a question at a town hall event
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Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee Answers Cell Phone During Town Hall
August 12, 2009
I was gonna say... this teacher should run for Congress.
Then, I scroll down, and sure 'nuf.....SJL's photo
FREEPERS RULE!
ETL's on it!
You gotta hand it to NJ. Punishments certainly fit the crime! I’m surprised the teacher didn’t have her ear chopped of in this People’s State.
“...base salary of about $70,000...”
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70K + first class benefits and near zero accountability ain’t bad for 8 1/2 months of work per year.
Let’s see $70,000 for 120 work days... and that just base pay. Fringes are about 25 % on top of that.
That’s about $730 per day, or annualized based upon the normal work year of 50 weeks X 5 days per week or 250 days, that’s $182,292. per year..... And we wonder why our taxes are high?
Talking on your cell while driving here in Ca, while stupid, does not carry that high a fine. I think if it was her first time - a simple warning. That is a lot of money to take from someone that committed no crime.
If I were that teacher I would be looking for a new job. Certainly she should have known better, but that fine is exhorbitant. Insane.
Does anybody believe that the district has a similar lack of tolerance for teacher incompetence? Would the teachers' union stand idly by when one of their own faced discipline and fines for incompetence?
I very much doubt it. The perceived threat to the teachers' unions from one-off enforcement of petty work rules such as this one likely pales compared to the existential threat to the unions if teacher competence were under fire in this manner...
A few years ago in Connecticut, a school board tried to fire a teacher for incompetence in two out of three subjects she was hired to teach, and the teachers' union took them to court and prevailed...