***East Williston Head Gym Teacher Makes $164,349.00 (Syosset, Nassau: how much, lawyers, school districts)

[woody516]

You can blame your politicians as well. It was they that mandated by law an increase in the number of periods of gym children should receive every week BECAUSE everybody complained about how our kids are so fat and lazy. Now in my local elementary school, which laid off reading teachers because of budget constraints, has 3 FULL TIME GYM TEACHERS...Can you BELIEVE?!?! 3 Full time gym teachers in an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!

[OhBeeHave]

What happens when the state aid is reduced and programs such as music eliminated? What happens to the music teachers?

[Crookhaven]

Mt Sinai Head Gym Teacher Makes $166,000.

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[Quick Commenter]

Strange thread. Athletic directors are administrators.Tell the board to renegotiate the administrative salaries at Wheatley. Easy fix. End of story. (There seems to be a deliberate blurring of the differences between the higher paid administrators and the lower paid teachers endemic to these aniti-teacher threads).

[4DogsImDone]

Originally Posted by Quick Commenter

Strange thread. Athletic directors are administrators.Tell the board to renegotiate the administrative salaries at Wheatley. Easy fix. End of story. (There seems to be a deliberate blurring of the differences between the higher paid administrators and the lower paid teachers endemic to these aniti-teacher threads).

However not all gym teachers are athletic directors and it has been shown where one gym teacher was not an athletic director yet his salary upon retirement was in excess of $150,000.

The system worked for him as well as he could work it.

Taxpayers, like the guy who started this thread, are realizing this. Times are tough and people can't afford the lucrative deals many (not just teachers) unions receive.

[michelabella]

Originally Posted by LINative

The Nassau County Executive makes about $174,000 to care for a county of over 1 million people. Meanwhile this guy makes almost the same to watch over a tiny handful of employees?

No wonder Long Island is becoming unaffordable.

And Nassau County is doing great! The county is in trouble partly because politicians are the ones to blame. Who knows how many little bonuses and extra petty cash they give themselves. People keep pointing their fingers at teachers but without those teachers what would our kids be doing. A good teacher is worth every dime of my tax money.

[NYEconomist]

Originally Posted by grant516

The man in question is now the Athletic Director of EWUFSD.

That's an administrator, not a 'head' gym teacher.

Research the difference between the roles, and the time as Athletic Director he has to put in per week/month.

It is a pretty hefty salary, but I suppose compaed to pro sports athletic directors and team managers, it's peanuts. :P

Actually, I have a friend who is the Athletic Director or equivalent of a local NFL team. He doesn't make anything close to that salary. He manages over one hundred employees year round and is responsible for overseeing stadium operations of 60,000 fans on game day, among many other responsibilities. I'd say that East Williston isn't getting their money's worth IMHO.

You can't compare an Athletic Director to a team manager or coach, because the Director isn't responsible for managing the team and East Williston probably has some good teams, but they aren't the Yankees or even the Dragons.

[Keeper]

FYI.. the original post is from 5/2010. keep it about the original topic please.

[tummymumma]

Originally Posted by michelabella

And Nassau County is doing great! The county is in trouble partly because politicians are the ones to blame. Who knows how many little bonuses and extra petty cash they give themselves. People keep pointing their fingers at teachers but without those teachers what would our kids be doing. A good teacher is worth every dime of my tax money.

They arent all good teachers... Before you go saying that the teachers do not need the finger pointed at them... Show me the results.. We pay some of the highest school taxes in the nation... We should be in the top school districts in the nation going by your logic

And without those teachers, there would be other teachers.... The teachers make the same argument as the police as the administrators as the sanitation department blah blah blah.... Its for our kids, its to protect you, you want to live in garbage? --- wake up... the intelligent ones just shut their mouths because they know they got it good... The stupid ones fight back... see below

When will it end....

Someone posted a WSJ article with police salary figures.... The comment by the representative of the PBA I believe was that we should pay higher rates because we are wealthier county...... Some people should not be allowed to speak, but it says volumes of how they actually think.

[NYEconomist]

Originally Posted by michelabella

And Nassau County is doing great! The county is in trouble partly because politicians are the ones to blame. Who knows how many little bonuses and extra petty cash they give themselves. People keep pointing their fingers at teachers but without those teachers what would our kids be doing. A good teacher is worth every dime of my tax money.

I agree, you should give every dime of your tax money to pay for teachers, if that's what you want to do. The rest of us realize that the law of diminishing returns works on teachers too, and paying 160k for someone to run the PE department of a school with six PE teachers is kind of overkill no matter how wealthy the neighborhood is. You can point to corruption, and I think you have a good, albeit separate point, but that is for another thread.