Tag Archives: Teachers

Looking At $100,000 Teacher Pensions

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Even the bad teachers get the payout. Their union protects them all.

On average, the retired teachers and administrators worked for 37 years in the education system and only one worked for less than 30. The districts from which they retired include Salinas Union High, Monterey Peninsula Unified, Greenfield Union, Monterey County Office of Education, Pacific Grove Unified, Santa Rita Elementary, Carmel Unified, North Monterey County, Gonzales Unified and Soledad Unified.

Pacific Grove Unified, with an average yearly pension of $81,887 per retired educator, and MPUSD with $58,588 are among the 10 districts on the Central Coast with highest pensions for their teachers, according to the California Policy Center.

Mark Bucher, president of the California Policy Center, a conservative-leaning, self-described free-market think tank which published the data, said the release of the figures was done to “challenge the popular conception of the poor retired teacher struggling to get by on a fixed pension.”

Looking At $100,000 Teacher Pensions

Babs Boxer Spending Your Tax $$

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Anything to protect us and our children from the teachers?

On Thursday U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer introduced new legislation to strengthen safety at local schools and to make sure state and local officials can better secure school campuses.

The bill is called the School Safety Enhancements Act, which said it would expand and strengthen the Justice Department’s existing Secure Our Schools grants. If passed, the bill would give schools more resources to install tip lines, surveillance equipment and secured entrances plus other safety measures.

Babs Boxer Spending Your Tax $$

DLI Teacher Accused Of Domestic Violence Denies All Accusations

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Then says he is bipolar. Great article.

Atef Samir Gergawy, 38, was taken into custody by Pacific Grove police officers April 29 on allegations he tried to rape his wife — whom police refer to as Jane Doe — and injured his son earlier in April.
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“I never did that,” he said.
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“That never happened,” said Gergawy.
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“I never did that,”
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..”How can I hit my kids?”
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the teacher said he never intentionally hit anyone
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Gergawy also said he is bipolar

DLI Teacher Accused Of Domestic Violence Denies All Accusations

Students Searched With No Cause?

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If I say that I felt that a teacher acted suspiciously would they get the same treatment? There’s no CTA union thugs to protect the students..

In her email she wrote, “…a teacher said my child who was waiting for his father to drop off his lunch, looked or acted or moved in a suspicious way and made a request to the vice principal my child be searched.”

Teresa Brunson is with the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District. She said school officials and law enforcement that work with them follow strict procedures when searching students. She said they are allowed to conduct searches when there is, quote, “reasonable doubt.”

“That can be anything – our direct observations, tips from other students or staff, an anonymous tip, and then we just follow through with that,” Brunson said.

Students Searched With No Cause?

P.G. Teacher Guilty Of Child Endangerment

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Taught 1st grade at the David Avenue private school for a short time. Child molesting charges entered in February were dropped in a plea bargain. Lilley has left the country for South Africa I am told.

Patrick Lilley
Patrick C. Lilley

Patrick Charles Lilley, 52, an ex-teacher at Sonoma’s Woodland Star Charter School, pleaded no contest to a single count of felony child endangerment and was sentenced to five years’ probation. Lilley served about nine months in county jail after his arrest.

P.G. Teacher Guilty Of Child Endangerment

(Sonoma Press Democrat)

P.G. Teachers Agree To Furlough. Parking Lot Rebuild Can Continue

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Dmc PGhs Parking Lot

 

“In this economic climate, our teachers felt strongly that no one should be laid off, and that preserving programs and services for our students was a top priority,” association co-president Linda Goulet said.

She said “a strong majority” of members supported taking the furlough days to save their colleagues’ jobs. The furlough days will be scheduled on what would have been paid staff-development days, Goulet said.

Isn’t it odd that we cannot pay the teachers but can have $7,000,000 football stadiums and who knows how much $$ school parking lots?

P.G. Teachers Agree To Furlough. Parking Lot Rebuild Can Continue

P.G. Teacher Arrested On Child Molesting Charges

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Teaches at that charter school at the old David Avenue school.

Patrick Lilley
Patrick C. Lilley

Sonoma County sheriff’s deputies said Patrick Lilley, 52, of Monterey, was arrested on a warrant for three counts of child molestation and booked into Monterey County Jail. An investigation by Sonoma County detectives revealed that Lilley allegedly sexually abused two students, who were under the age of 13, about two years ago, authorities said.

Lilley has worked at Monterey Bay Charter School since August, school director Cassandra Gallup Bridge said Friday.

P.G. Teacher Arrested On Child Molesting Charges

Lynne Nicole Feurer Sentenced To Six Years

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Teacher gets half of the expected 11 years detention at most.
Nicole Fuere Court

After listening to more than a dozen people speak on Feurer’s behalf, Judge Larry Hayes said her positive contributions to society outweighed the aggravated circumstances of the crime that would have called for the maximum sentence of 11 years in prison.

Feurer, 66, was charged with murder in the death of 80-year-old Joseph Francis Cupita and could have been sentenced to life in prison had she been convicted at trial. She pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in October.

Lynne Nicole Feurer Sentenced To Six Years

Lynne Nicole Feurer Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter

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Teacher gets 11 years detention at most.

Nicole Fuere Court

Monterey County District Attorney Dean D. Flippo announced Monday that Lynne Nicole Feurer, age 66 of Pacific Grove, entered a guilty plea to the charge of voluntary manslaughter for the death of her cohabitant, Joseph Cupita.

The defendant will be sentenced on December 11, 2009, by Judge Larry E. Hayes and faces three, six or eleven years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Lynne Nicole Feurer Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter