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Less Is Less
To the editor:
According to Mr. Nelson Lane, in last week’s paper, the expressions on the faces of the protesting RCHS students changed completely when he told them that as a result of the Board of Supervisors’ decision to cut the school budget by $120,000, the teachers would get an additional raise. I would imagine their faces showed awestruck wonder at his explanation of how “leas is more.” Something like the Newspeak of1984.
In fact the salary component of the teachers pay was increased whent the school board labored till midnight of the night before the walkout to find ways to trim $120,000 from their budget, but the overall teacher benefit package was drastically reduced. Before the cuts the teachers could expect an average salary increase of 11 percent and a fringe benefit of five percent for retirement. The value of the total was 16 percent. After the cuts the only increase was 12 percent for salary. This is four percent less (and probably a greater decrease in value because of the effect of higher taxes on salary and not on fringe benefits). As most of us have known all along, less is less; it is not “more.”
That the students who planned the walkout did not know the details of the school budget, especially the details worked out close to midnight of the night before their walkout, is hardly
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