I do not think any teacher is away from home working till 10-11pm. I also think it’s a shame we have some of the lowest paid teachers in the state. I’m not against teachers I just don’t think you want to understand the AD position and pay. You have been told many times the jr high ad’s are teaching positions as well and yet you still refuse to acknowledge it your print or video. The two in keystone split a salary. When I looked at the budget before it told me what an AD makes. Brb I will go look and see what it says now.
Athletics aside from paying the employees are COMPLETELY fundraiser funded. That’s why you don’t see this in the budget. The gate, concession, car washes…trust me, I have worked my ass off for 3 years fundraising and we are still doing with out. Quit saying “no matter how much we spend on it.” It’s raised by parents.
Hi Sallie, those funds still have to be accounted for. And there are costs that the district handles outside of AD pay. The sacred cow of schools sports isn’t immune from scrutiny and oversight.
I don’t think athletics are a sacred cow more than Band, ROTC, or whatever extra activity that reaches students on a whole other personal level and mentors them into a productive future once they leave school. We have kids graduating that can’t read due to state laws that teachers unions stand behind. My AD had to personally go to Guidance to have my son’s senior schedule fixed so that he would have 2 classes required to graduate. English and Government. Guidance still wanted to keep him in a class never requested, I think they were more focused on filling seats in an AICE class that he didn’t need but prob brings in more funding. I had to reiterate, NO, he has to have English and Government to graduate. If my kid did not want to play football and socialize w friends he would not be in public school. Period.
Every dollar received, regardless of where it comes from, is part of the budget. You can absolutely budget for what you believe the costs will be for the athletic programs. Otherwise how would they know how much money to ask the donors to give?
Well we are literally using it as we raise it. Orange Park athletics is operating on a much lower fundraising money than Fleming island because as you can imagine it’s a lot harder to raise funds when you are working w title 1 school family budgets. So how do they make a budget across the board. We have lots of needs, we don’t get them unless we raise the money. Fleming Island at one points entire team wore speed flex helmets, OP had like 10. The rest of the kids wore the old ones that are night and day different on a safety level. That’s not cool and surely was not part of the counties predetermined need for who gets what. We have a car wash, raise money and then the coach can cross off his highest need that he’s able to purchase with the amount of money we raised.
*now I bought my son his own speed flex helmet ($400) had it painted ($170) and since that time I believe the new coach made getting safe helmets a priority and he has purchased many more as we have raised funds.
Elementary schools don’t have activities after school everyday year round that go until 11pm at night.
If you don’t think teachers are working way over 40 hours a week consistently you’re kidding yourself.
I do not think any teacher is away from home working till 10-11pm. I also think it’s a shame we have some of the lowest paid teachers in the state. I’m not against teachers I just don’t think you want to understand the AD position and pay. You have been told many times the jr high ad’s are teaching positions as well and yet you still refuse to acknowledge it your print or video. The two in keystone split a salary. When I looked at the budget before it told me what an AD makes. Brb I will go look and see what it says now.
It might be a min, I can’t read the salaries on my phone well. Here is a link though.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HP294085yVLiNeBmKTpK76zKboEobqjXuznWho5oUxE/edit
Athletics aside from paying the employees are COMPLETELY fundraiser funded. That’s why you don’t see this in the budget. The gate, concession, car washes…trust me, I have worked my ass off for 3 years fundraising and we are still doing with out. Quit saying “no matter how much we spend on it.” It’s raised by parents.
Hi Sallie, those funds still have to be accounted for. And there are costs that the district handles outside of AD pay. The sacred cow of schools sports isn’t immune from scrutiny and oversight.
I don’t think athletics are a sacred cow more than Band, ROTC, or whatever extra activity that reaches students on a whole other personal level and mentors them into a productive future once they leave school. We have kids graduating that can’t read due to state laws that teachers unions stand behind. My AD had to personally go to Guidance to have my son’s senior schedule fixed so that he would have 2 classes required to graduate. English and Government. Guidance still wanted to keep him in a class never requested, I think they were more focused on filling seats in an AICE class that he didn’t need but prob brings in more funding. I had to reiterate, NO, he has to have English and Government to graduate. If my kid did not want to play football and socialize w friends he would not be in public school. Period.
I know they are still accounted for but they are not part of the budget. You can’t put fundraising “in the budget” because it’s not guaranteed.
Every dollar received, regardless of where it comes from, is part of the budget. You can absolutely budget for what you believe the costs will be for the athletic programs. Otherwise how would they know how much money to ask the donors to give?
Well we are literally using it as we raise it. Orange Park athletics is operating on a much lower fundraising money than Fleming island because as you can imagine it’s a lot harder to raise funds when you are working w title 1 school family budgets. So how do they make a budget across the board. We have lots of needs, we don’t get them unless we raise the money. Fleming Island at one points entire team wore speed flex helmets, OP had like 10. The rest of the kids wore the old ones that are night and day different on a safety level. That’s not cool and surely was not part of the counties predetermined need for who gets what. We have a car wash, raise money and then the coach can cross off his highest need that he’s able to purchase with the amount of money we raised.
*now I bought my son his own speed flex helmet ($400) had it painted ($170) and since that time I believe the new coach made getting safe helmets a priority and he has purchased many more as we have raised funds.