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>>>People on this board love to criticize teachers. I agree that there are too many expensive administrators in the school department but I have a question. How much money does the City of Gloucester set aside in its budget for teacher overtime pay? I would guess none because teachers, like true professionals, do not receive one cent in overtime for all the extra hours they work. They routinely stay after school to help struggling students, attend parent/teacher conferences, go to meetings at night and weekends, chaperone student social events, and so much more. Every year the GDT has a list of the highest paid city employees. Invariably most are members of the police and fire departments. I've never seen a teacher on that list. Says a lot, don't you think?<<< pgncove

This is more of the Teachers Union hiding behind the old meme that those who criticize this corrupt racket "hate" teachers or "hate" children. They're both preposterous, tired old ruses that aren't fooling anyone anymore, pgncove.

The facts are that teachers are only contractually obliged to work 990 hours a year, and many if not most work a lot less than that when the crooked "sick bank" and other corrupt provisions of that rape of the taxpayers contract that the swindlers at GTA-MTA foisted on the taxpayers with the help of their crooked little City Hall toadies is taken into consideration.

990 hours is only a half a year for those working in the real world including the other municipal safety workers you target listed in that preposterous GD Times yearly report. If that report was compiled honestly and listed pay per hours worked, the top paid list would certainly be populated almost exclusively by members of the bloated GTA-MTA swindle.

This raise and the corruption behind it is only the tip of the iceberg of how they're destoying this citys' future.

They've already bribed their stooges in City Hall and Beacon Hill to allow them to put twice as many teachers (200%!!!) as we need on the bloated staff. Now consider that they've also bribed them to allow retirement in as little as fourteen years, which means that instead of a normal work career of about 45 years before retirement like the rest of us, they will need an additional 200% to 300% more teachers over that same 45 year time span times the 200% swindle they're running now to keep the racket populated. The above dishonest practices will soon generate an excess pension capital requirement somewhere north of 500% of what it should be!!! All of these excess hacks are going end up on the pension, thousands of them, and when that happens the racketeers are then going to go after your children to try and get the $$$$$$$$$$ to keep them in the comfort they've become accustomed to!!!

It gets even worse.

The stooges at City Hall are not fully funding this system now, and they accumulate millions more in liabilities to this RACKET every year. They are not being honest about this building catastrophe in the city fiscal reports (guffaw!!!) or in the city books. There is already something approaching two retirees to every worker in the RACKET now (already an unsustainable situation in a bloated, corrupt defined benefit racket like they're running), and if they're not stopped soon the disgraceful $50 or $60 million unfunded liability they've already foolishly allowed to amass will be $100 million dollars in a decade at the rate they are expanding pay, staffing, benefits, and retirement eligibility.

The present bloated and corrupt MTA-GTA system needs to be converted to a privatized system run by professionals who contribute to their own privately funded defined contribution retirement system like the rest of us before it is too late. If this is done now it may be possible to structure a legacy worker framework so that some of the older workers could retire on the old , unsustainable system while it is being phased out.

As I said before, this latest pay-hike ripoff is only the tip of the iceberg.