I remember many years ago, Greenon was on a pay to play, I think was around $250 per kid. The football team ran a cow chip bingo. They raised over $10K, net, to cover costs for the football player costs. Then next thing I see are new uniforms, home and away jerseys and pants, ditching the red highlights....me thinking outside the box, those had to be ordered well in advance of having them on opening day. Now I see Alder in their unis and think back to when Greenon looked like that up to the early '00s...lol
I'm just a cranky old cuss and it just gets under my skin that schools have to go out for additional taxes from property owners, while using kids as a means to an end until that levy runs out, then we start over again. My example of the casino and lottery were just an example of the hundreds of millions of dollars that were supposed to be ear marked for schools and when I look at board meeting minutes and the financial reports, I fail to see a clearly divided input of those assets.
Living wage? What exactly is that? Just pulling the salary data for the Shawnee district (openpayrolls.com). The teacher salaries range between $63.7K to mostly $88.2K, with the Super pulling in $125K. The median OH income is $57K and $61K for Clark County. It appears Shawnee has a good base of salaries for their teachers. Then again, think about those teachers and tell me, how many of them become teachers because of the money?
Bad idea. Parents and for the most part, fans, are fair weather. To base a coach's stipend from gates and success is ridiculous. To me, coaches are the most undervalued assets in a school...no matter the sport or extracurricular. Example. I have gone to many games at Trotwood and if not for the visitor fan base TM would be in the red for their sports....just an observation. I went to a state semi game at Sidney against Toledo CC and there where less than 150 TM fans in the stands. Then I look at the CBC as a whole and I see London, Belle, KR, North Union and Urbana as the most solid home fan base of any of the schools. Basing stipends from gate receipts and success may decrease that $0.05 per hour by 50% for most schools. Where is the equity in that thought process?
That is a good one and being that age, I should be all on board but cannot disagree more. Why do you think people that are beyond school age kids should be exempted? ....you seem to have an opinion of it takes a village and if so, the whole damn village needs to participate to support their future or IMO move.