EASD Teachers Still Awaiting Assignments
With all of the staff cuts over the summer, a handful of Easton Area teachers don't know their assignments less than a week before school starts.
With school starting in less than a week, most students in the Easton Area School District know who their teachers are.
But due to all the staff reductions over the summer, some teachers don't know who their students are.
A handful of teachers don't know their assignments yet, according to The Allentown Morning Call.
The teachers are not sure what they are teaching and how many students will be in their class, the article states.
The teachers association is trying to rebound from a summer that was no vacation: The Easton Area School Board slashed 17 Middle School jobs in July on top of another 50 positions cut in May.
Meanwhile, 41 para-professionals also lost their jobs along with a middle school administrator.
Board members said the decision was based on trying to close a major budget deficit.
The paraprofessionals included nurses and others who were lunchroom, security, classroom, clerical and library employees.
The board also voted to eliminate the positions of printing services manager and benefits coordinator for the district.
Anonymous
5:49 am on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Let's pray NOW that these students will behave themselves and have more self control than they have had in the past. Without the extra 41 para-professionals, they are going to need to really act their age. We need better video cameras WITH sound so that someone can watch. I wish there was a video camera in every class. Then parents could see how hard their little angel was really trying in class and how they behave in the hallway. I think most would be shocked to the core.
bill frome
3:45 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
When I find out who you are you will lose your job. IP addresses aren't that hard to find. I will also be going to the EASD main office to log a complaint.
Maire
9:41 am on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
wow, I thought it was frustrating not knowing who my child had as a teacher till a few days ago. That certainly puts it into perspective - I feel for these teachers. It just leaves me reeling that the school district made so many bad choices a few years back, and we as a whole - teachers, students, and parents -- will be suffering the cost (literally) of those choices for the next decade and beyond.
Ronnie DelBacco
10:38 am on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
We looked on Power School to find out who my daughter's teachers are this year. It was easy. Why don't the teachers do the same?
bill frome
3:52 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The teachers aren't suffering we the taxpayers are and our kids. Get real I bet your a teacher aren't you??? Fess up. Our taxes got raised to the max and our kids aren't going to get the same things we had when we were in school all thanks to the teachers and their union. It must be nice to be a teacher in Easton. The average teacher makes over $60,000 with full benefits for working 8 months of the year. SHow me the percentage of taxpayers in Easton who make the same thing???? Bet its below 5%. When you breakdown teachers salary on average they make over $40 per hour not including their cost of their benefits. I thoughts teachers were suppose to teacher because they loved teaching not because of their paycheck gets its backwards in Easton. By the way all teahcers had to do was take a 10% pay cut and a salary freeze to avoid teachers and other support jobs from being slashed but they were to greedy.
Rasterone
10:34 am on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Apparently some EASD teachers do not have enough to do and are able to accept paid outside contract assignments to supervise student teachers from nearby universities during the same time as teaching EASD children OK so its relatively modest extra pay but that's not the point. Let some other district have the honor of being the testing ground for green talent OR if EASD has the free time then lets put ALL the compensation back in the common pot to benefit the EASD children and overall programs .
As an aside why expend public/taxpayer funds to grind out more green teachers in a marketplace already flooded with excess certified talented yet unemployed teachers
julinovi
10:12 am on Thursday, August 23, 2012
As a student teacher myself, those teachers who accept students into their classroom get paid next to nothing, they are given an extra set of hands (at no cost to the district), and as far as I know...I am paying my expenses to attend school to become a taecher, at no cost to the public or taxpayers. I have children in the EASD and am paying the same taxes as everyone else. MANY OTHER DISTRICTS do have the "honor" of being the testing ground. How do you think people like me feel who have gone to school for a number of years to become a teacher, finally getting to the point where I can student teach, and graduate with slim to no possibility of finding a job. Great second career opportunity. Why rant on and on about student teachers when they can only help an over-worked teacher who gets larger and larger classrooms every year. We may be "green" but that by no means says we don't know what we are doing.
Amend Wun
11:42 am on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
@Anonymous- Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with the article, and why do you hate children so much that you'd advocate some Orwelian "eye in the sky" concept that called for constant supervision via cameras?
@Ronnie- would you want your employer to leave it up to you to figure out what your assigned task was going to be when it's the employer's role to tell you such?
Rasterone
12:29 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Now whether anyone knows if students actually and properly live in district --that's another bad page in a soggy book and to some extent almost anything can be flushed thru the pipes via an "affidavit" and it sticks to the walls. It sounds funny but add it up for a couple hundred children at say $10,000 each cost to 'wrong' district.
Rasterone
4:47 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
And if we don't have workable cameras in place (absent bathrooms) and some kid is the repeated victim of bullying/violence on a bus or in a hallway or in a corner of a gym then will you Amend defend the district. Failure to provide adequate security could be yet another money looser for EASD OK, how many of the buses actually have working videos?
Amend Wun
5:36 pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
@Rasterone- I didn't weigh in either way regarding cameras. I was questioning the posters motivation regarding the need for cameras; in that it was particular hostile towards children.
bill frome
4:07 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Want to know how long your child's teacher has been teaching and how much they get paid go to http://www.openpagov.org/k12_payroll.asp. You can also find the contract the teachers have as well.
bill frome
4:17 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Our school district, which includes the teachers, has failed our kids. Only 59% of 11th graders are proficient in reading and math. Thats disgusting. Maybe we need to pay the teachers better??? After all isn't that how government fixes problems. I mean the average teacher in Easton makes $60,000+ with full benefits thats not enough right??? I'm sure us taxpayers wouldn't mind paying more in taxes so that the teachers can have nicer cars and bigger houses outside the district because most teachers don't live within the Easton School District. Maybe then our kids will do better because the teachers are getting paid better right. Wrong
bill frome
4:21 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The average cost per student in Easton is $40,073. That is the cost of an Ivy League college education for one year. Thats also disgusting.
bill frome
4:29 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Oh that number is just for reading the cost per student in math is $36,278. So that means it cost the Easton Area School District a total of $76,351 per student. That is disgusting.
Rasterone
8:02 am on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Bill, I'm not sure about your source that we spend 40,073 per student in Easton etc That seems way off the mark. Its still a lot but I think the per capita cost is more like $12,0000. HOWEVER if you look at ALL the costs involved in educating some of the children which pose severe discliplinary problems and are assigned to the Academy or consume vast other resources , the cost for these students SOARS , and probably far in excess of what folks are willing to admit--And if you consider the costs of education of kids who not really EASD kids and/or somebody has used the "affidavit" as the means to get kid entitled to a free ride in Easton --those costs are wacky high out of line. Others have addressed that due to our border situation we are particularity prone to being victimized by out of state parents as well. A NY parent uses a PalmerTwsp relatives address to send a kid to a local Charter and EASD gets stuck with the bill --all probably just inside the legal hairlines and some folks don't even both to stay inside legal hairlines
bill frome
3:03 pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Rasterone I got it from the state and the school district itself. I posted a link. You click on it and do some research. http://www.openpagov.org/pssa.asp