Posted on 01/09/2018 5:17:00 AM PST by tkocur
A special meeting of the Vermilion Parish School Board got a bit heated last night and a concerned educator ended up in handcuffs.
Deyshia Hargrave, an English language arts teacher at Rene Rost Middle School in Kaplan, got up to address the board during the public comments portion of the meeting to discuss teacher salaries and pay raises. Her big concern was that while teachers were asked to do more for little to no extra pay, the board was voting to increase the salary of current superintendent Jerome Puyau.
However, Hargrave was ruled out of order by board president Anthony Fontana, warning her that the public comment section was not a question-and-answer section.
As you'll see in the video below, while getting up to comment for a second time, Hargrave was confronted by an Abbeville city marshal on duty. She was asked to leave the building to which she appeared to abide to.
Once in the hall, Hargrave was placed in handcuffs by the marshal. (In the video below from Joshua Blake, you cannot see what happened for a few seconds once she left the meeting room and entered the hall.)
It is uncertain if the marshal acted on his own accord or was directed by the board.
Payou says that the board won't press charges against Hargrave.
It’s pensions and bennies. Though some of the spending on sports is nuts.
I assume this will result in some personnel changes on the school board. And police department.
The state of New York knowingly places functional illiterates in classrooms as teachers, thanks to the teachers unions.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/13/ny-dropping-teacher-literacy-test-amid-claims-racism.html
Government schools are a cesspool of affirmative action corruption and incompetence.
When they changed the name of English into Language Arts, they were promoting the left-wing, language-equivalence agenda. America first.
CPS pension crisis leads to controversial tax hike
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I’m reminded of this scene in Star Trek 5:
Kirk: What does God need with a starship?
[Shoots Kirk with lightning]
Spock: You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?
“God”: [shoots Spock with lightning; then addresses McCoy] Do you doubt me?
It is actually 200 days and that is not counting the Sundays grading papers, posting grades, and developing lesson plans.
My wife spends upwards of $2,500 a year on supplies that the district won’t give her.
Things like ink, paper, and such.
Now with the new tax laws, we can’t deduct it.
It is more than a 180 day a year job. Heck, if I had to deal with the snowflake parents, I would be in jail by now.
But the case in question is actually pretty typical. Superintendents get the raises, and teachers are asked to do more with less (or supplement with fundraising or their own money). Raising taxes just makes the problem worse, and half the reason we have such a bloated management in schools is all the laws and regulations.
My wife teaches high school math, and has to teach “honor’s” kids how to multiply
Oh yeah ? Try that in the East Ramapo school district.
The problem isn’t the teachers, it is the useless, bloated bureaucracy of building and district that is stifling both teachers and students.
My wife’s district (considered one of the best in the region) (and most wealthy) gave its teachers $30.00 a piece for supplies this year. They last year spent $5,000 (non refundable) for a set of books that will never be used because the Principal deems them to be “too controversial” after the purchase he okayed. Building discipline is at best inconsistent and at worst non-existent.
The district has spent millions of dollars to get and keep certification for the International Baccalaureate program, only to now have it brushed aside to make way for the “new” STEM program.(spending millions more) (We live in an industrial city our district has actively done away with its industrial arts program until now).
We live in a state where the governor is currently screwing teachers on their pensions. In fact our state Supreme Court is forcing the State to return the 3% of every paycheck that it confiscated from the teachers. (not holding my breath on seeing that money any time soon. :( Not depending on the state for retirement.
I remember during the 1990’s Americans were talking about how little money teachers made considering the daunting task they had to do. Now it seems they-are a convenient foil for the failure of administration.
Every city council has rules for public comments and questions.
The council is not there to debate one citizen. The woman in the video is not special.
There’s a time limit on public comments. Where I live it’s two minutes. If you insist on ignoring the rules and continue your diatribe you will be removed by the police. That’s true just about everywhere. The topic is irrelevant.
It’s a matter of practicality, sometimes 50 or more (always a few nut jobs in the group who ramble incoherently, too) citizens are lined up to comment.
Should they all be allowed to talk for as long as they want?
I’ve had to sit through some of these meetings for my work. They can be a nightmare.
Rules are needed, and they must be enforced.
113 schools districts on Long Island. 113 Superindents making astronomical money. School taxes equate to 70 per cent of overall tax bill... property taxes 10900, school tax portion 7557. Yet Cuomo wants to sue the Federal govt!!!! Talk about the big lie !!!!!
I live in CT, and my town spends a lot on their school system. They claimed that they needed a new middle school. However, the student population has been in decline losing 30% over the past 10 years, and will lose another 30% in the next 5. With the current student enrollment, you can easily fit all of the students in the remaining classroom space of the other 3 schools. But they vote to build a $50 million dollar school.
The school systems offers free pre-school. I find that B.S. in of itself. But it is worse than that, they send a van around to pick up the pre-school students.
Red states were being abused by tax and spend states like NY and CT. I hope that now that the SALT has been limited, the states that used to benefit the most from it, will rethink their spending and taxing habits, because the citizens will simply leave.
Public education has become such a morass of corruption, pc, inefficiency and incompetence. I would love the Trump administration to simpllfy it to excel as the best private schools do.
Not defending anyone here, but as a former City Manager, these types of questions are to be addressed during union negotiations. If she’s unhappy about her pay and benefits, then it’s on her union reps to address this during bargaining.
That being said, I would have let her speak, advised the board that this is not a bargaining session, and then moved on to the next agenda item.
Not defending anyone here, but as a former City Manager, these types of questions are to be addressed during union negotiations. If she’s unhappy about her pay and benefits, then it’s on her union reps to address this during bargaining.
That being said, I would have let her speak, advised the board that this is not a bargaining session, and then moved on to the next agenda item.
My older sister is a special ed teacher. Every year she takes up a collection from the family to buy children things like underwear, shoes, socks, coats, etc.
She’s white, OK?
Teachers don’t invent their job titles. As a matter of fact, superintendents do.
She’s white, OK?
Did someone say she wasn’t?
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