Twenty-three employees at Santa Cruz County ed office earn $100...

Oh Boy!!! This ought to be a good one.. Lets let all the negativity begin...

And to think teachers often have to buy materials with their own money

big.freaking.deal

Disgusting!

So...

Just curious UGOT2BKIDDIN, how should 'God' be taught in the public schools? You'd be fine with students learning about Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, right? Or do you mean Eric Clapton?

So imagine the money being spent in 1049 State School districts. Im not saying that these people are not needed, but come on, their has to be some duplication of work being done with the other City School districts. We need to overhaul the way the state, counties, and cities manage their schools.

tax guy wrote:

Oh Boy!!! This ought to be a good one.. Lets let all the negativity begin...

What's positive about it? Eliminate 22 of those 23 positions!

We are finally coming to the time when the grossness of our humanity and greed has culminated (these people work for our education system) and is getting exposed. All these people think they deserve over $100K for what they do, I'm sure. But the REALITY is that there are very few jobs that pay that much, and the chance that these people are providing that kind of value is ZERO. They've just made the right buddies and stuck in a government paid position long enough to work themselves into sucking more than they deserve off of the government (taxpayer) teat.

Times are a changin, folks. Better start scrambling to justify your overpay. No buddy buddy office politics will get you out of this in today's world.

.....and summers off

How is this news? Does anyone really care.....

They get crazy salaries plus summers off?? It must be nice living high on the hog via tax payers..Shame on the school system for creating such a hell hole...I bet many of these positions could be eliminated, but it's probably next to impossible because of LAME, idiotic unions...

What an invasion of privacy to release the names like that. In these times of all the fraud and things that go on, it is too bad they have to use people's names and not just use a position name! Having an unlisted phone number is not enough to keep you safe. I know many families who feel very violated and worried about their names and salaries being on a public database that is published by the paper.

Proving once and again that people will take way too much pay for...nothing. You are not that important!

This is the COUNTY education office. They play a TINY role in area schools. So there is no way these bloated salaries are justified.

This has nothing to do with one's attitude toward public schools, unions, etc. These guys are BIT PLAYERS and yet paid big money for relatively little.

Note that even these "full time" employees only work 222 days a year. With 260 work days a year, less 10 days normal holidays and 10 days vacation most of us get in the US, we are at 240 days. So this means they are getting another 18 days off. Over 5 weeks vacation a year. Kinda like working in a socialist country like France.

"But we need to adequately compensate government taxpayer supported employees in order to retain and compete with the private sector". How many times and with how many varrying government departments have we heard this lione before? Hot dam, gots to git me one a dem high payin gubment jobs!

Jonathan Brinker wrote:

Hiding behind a cloak of anonymity?
Use your real names.
Back up your words with your reputation.
Anyone posting under a pseudonym on this site should be ignored.
My two cents.

Our nation was born of anonymous debate- The Federalist Papers.

In this forum, your words should be able to stand on their own. There is nothing to stop me from adopting the name Jon Brinker to anonymously share my opinions.

Something to think about.

#1

Dear editor, below is a statement from your July column:

"We aren’t stopping with the government databases and plan to publish similar salary information for UC Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College and local school districts."

Question: When will we see these databases and why is it taking so long?

#2

Below is a blog comment you made in regards to the public pension article you wrote:

Don Miller // Jul 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm

"Sentinel workers are not represented by a union. As far as teachers go, I think we said that most of the egregious excesses are from changes put into place the last 10 years. As far as I know, and I know pretty well, teachers’ have not realized any windfall due to these changes."
really // Jul 16, 2009 at 7:19 pm

Why does it seem like the Sentinel is dragging its feet when it comes to reporting on the teacher salary database it promised its readers?

Does something smell fishy here besides the anchovies in the harbor...

privacy wrote:

What an invasion of privacy to release the names like that. In these times of all the fraud and things that go on, it is too bad they have to use people's names and not just use a position name! Having an unlisted phone number is not enough to keep you safe. I know many families who feel very violated and worried about their names and salaries being on a public database that is published by the paper.

These are public employees that receive their salary from the government. The state- controlled by public employee unions- has the power to take my money from me to give to you. I am glad that the names are posted to remind everybody who works for whom.