"CAN'T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKING" rolling stones
Seems the sale of the "old" Harvey property between the schools and the port authority has reached a snag. Those of you that have been with us from the beginning will remember a post about an old cemetery located on the grounds in the southeast section. I remember seeing headstones there in the mid sixties. At one time, there must have been one there. Well, the records of what and who are buried there were destroyed in a fire back in the 1930's so, as Dr. Hanlon mentioned, there is a REMOTE possibility of some graves still there. Another "only in Painesville."
The board took action to approve #11-177 - ‘Student Designation to Transport’. What that means is Painesville will no longer provide bussing to Lake Catholic and Andrews-Osborne (I am not even clear about the others). The school board reported that transportation for these students costs over $3,097.35 per student annually.
Well, that might be true since the average pay of a Painesville City School bus driver is $33.93 per hr. This includes wages, hospitalization, retirement, etc.
What happened tonight is that all those Painesville parents who provide a private education for their kids now have no reason to support the schools.
In other news, long-time board member Andy Thompson turned in his resignation effective July 12, 2011. I guess this means another position is open. What is that….. four in the last three years? Mr. Thompson has spent over forty years in the field of education. A big ‘thank-you’ is well deserved.
Still wondering which elementary school my five-year-old granddaughter will be attending. She is on the borderline between Maple and Chestnut. Will there be all day kindergarten? Still no answers yet. This is July 11th… right?
posted by terminator1 @ 5:33 PM
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14 Comments:
Another "only in Painesville."
BET IT HAS HAPPENED IN OTHER CITIES TOO.
Is it true the gifted program is still going to be around, to bad the kids who are not gifted will not recieve the help they need....
GIVE EXTRA HELP TO THE SMART ONLY,
SOUNDS PRETTY DUMB TO ME....
8:34 please read your post again? What should we do with students that well are "gifted" not promote their gift, or having programs that will make them excell?
Big problem now days. Dumb down the system. Let's send our future doctors and other professionals to GED classes. Now that sounds pretty dumb to me.
2 links to some information on the Washington St. Cemetery.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/cemetery/washburi.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlake/cemetery/washington.html
One more link.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohlcgs/painesville/washingt.html
" In the early 1890s the Painesville Board of Education saw the need to build a new high school. The vacant land where the Washington Street Cemetery had been attracted their attention. The Village council transferred the property to the school board on December 5th, 1896, and they began the process of transforming “a wasted place into a beautiful site for a new high School building.” Since that time the land where the Washington Street Cemetery had been has been part of the high school grounds.
The fact that some of the graves had never been removed has periodically come back to haunt school officials."
"the average pay of a Painesville City School bus driver is $33.93 per hr. This includes wages, hospitalization, retirement, etc."
Interesting numbers. That makes $70,500 a year. Are there bonus' on top of that? Should we add liability insurance for the driver on top of that? Umbrella policy for whole city but should be taken into account. I'm sure the bus driver would like that money in his check. Probably gets half that.
Now we as tax payers must foot the whole amount. For this bus driver and all other public employees. How many here in Painesville make that much money. Term, you? Your neighbors? Remember for every increase in take home pay, there is a corresponding increase in benefits. Kinda make SB 5 look like not such a bad idea.
Thank you Andy Thomson you are a class act.
What about hidden raises. No pay increase but more pension or benefits. Annuity anyone????? Tax free investments????? Expense accounts???? Gas money for travel from out of town?????
Must we protect or protest all these hidden costs.
Wrong heading. Shgould have been "THRILLER" michael jackson
$33.93 total for a part-time job?
Can only wonder what a head cook or custodian makes now?
If the general public knew some of these wages they couldn't pass a levy for 100 years!
Painesville City Schools could avoid all the coming lawsuits about busing. No busing for high school students then no one ca expect it.
Are you sure your facts are correct for a bus drivers pay? He must be way at the top of the seniority scale, 30-35 years and ready for retirement maybe.
The numbers given were for an "average" school bus driver. Some higher some lower.
Maybe there all ready to retire? The school administration used the words overall average.
The mathematical average means that half make more and half make less. Any way you look at it that's a healthy chunk of change for a part time job.
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