08-08-2009, 07:18 AM
Here it is in a nut shell. Mary Lamping, Jules Guadan(sp), and the LC administrations think the teachers are dog meat. They have absolutley no respect for the challenges and craziness we face everyday. Middle/elem. pay scale is on par because of the unit district senerio, so they dont fight the salary fight. High school teachers are probably on average 20,000 below Warren, 30,000 below stevenson and 15,000 below Zion, and 10,000 below North Chicago. Lake Zurich a Unit District we are also across the board about 10,000 below them on average. Why? Because our negotiation teams have been made up of wannabe administrators who are looking to move up. Some people on the negotiation team from last time arent even in the district anymore. We had one guy last year who helped later on to right the pay scale and he isnt even on this time. Ive been through about five or six negotiations and pay has never been on the front lines..because the negotiation team didnt want to address it until late in the negotiations!