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someone nas to be paid to set up their pension and insurance plans, plus, finally, someone has to be paid to ascertain whether they are actually functioning within the system. That’s seven tasks just to hire one employee. Think of the costs to the system to hire thirty! Is this what we want to spend for new, inexperienced teachers in lieu of a pay raise for our current experienced teachers? Let us all be reminded that our teachers’ current wages are well below the state average at this time, actually ranking 101 out of 131. If 4.75 percent pay raise is not enough, and apparently it is not if 28 teachers are looking for new jobs, then we had better-double it! If we do not, then the taxpayers of this coiifity will be paying double for new inexperienced teachersdnstead of a 9.5 percent raise to our experienced teachers. The savings we will generate over the next several years will be enormous.
And if we do not do this, then what? Well, the tax payers will either be stuck with this hidden but burgeoning tax burden, or the school will have to cut back courses, activities, athletics and whatever else they can find from a budget that is already bare bones, thus depriving the children of this county of their well deserved and needed education.
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