The Jefferson County Board of Education wants you to sit down and shut up

 

How long are you allowed to speak at a Jefferson County Board of Education meeting?

Three minutes.

One more thing.  Don’t repeat what a prior speaker said because THE SCHOOL BOARD DOESN’T WANT YOU TO WASTE THEIR TIME.   “Avoid repeating similar views of other speakers.”

This is from the JCPS website:

 

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office collected over $550 million of your tax dollars… but you can only speak for THREE MINUTES.

 

 

According to the Diane Porter’s comments during the August 25th board meeting, the county clerk’s office collected over $25 million of YOUR MONEY for JCPS… but you can only speak for THREE MINUTES.

Go ahead, try to speak longer than three minutes.  They’ll gong you right off the stage.

Don’t believe me?  Just watch the video of the August 25th board meeting.  Click here to view the fun.

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Congratulations! You get another raise just for showing up.

Guess who gets another raise? That’s right. JCPS teachers!

Here’s a sneak peek at the contract – this raise is in addition to step increases which are ALREADY in the union contract.

In case you missed the post about step increases, look at the table below. (Click here to view the PDF.) Step increases are raises that teachers receive for showing up AND/OR getting super-quickie graduate degrees in education that they root out of boxes of Cracker Jacks. Raises are not performance-based because the teachers union forbids them.

Thanks, Jefferson County Board of Education for rewarding failure.

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