The Lauderdale County Board voted to give Mr. Valentine a significant raise last night, making his salary easily surpassing the $100,000 mark.
The funny thing is that earlier in the week Mr. Valentine send out memos on how to save money during the proration and even outlined that if computers were cut off at night, it could save the school system $45,000 over the course of the year. I guess we know now why he wanted the computers off so that money could go straight into his pocket!!
Teachers have been informed that most non-tenured teachers will NOT be hired back next year due to the worst Proration since the early 1960's. How does Mr. Valentine handle these teachers, that are single moms and are trying to make a living, fire them, and put himself up for a RAISE!!!
Here's another interesting fact!!! Two board memebers did not show up for the vote last night (TH and JF). He needed 3 votes to have his raise approved. The deciding vote was given by Ms. Cornelius, which oddly enough came on the same night her SON was going to be reccomended to get the Administrator job at Anderson Junior High School.
Let us all think back..... Mr. Valentine ran his campaign on EXPERIENCE!!! Mr. Cornelius was/is going to be reccomended for the Principal job at Anderson with NO EXPERIENCE, but I guess we can overlook it since his mother was able to cast the deciding vote to get Mr. Valentie a HUGE RAISE!!!
Several groups have approaced Mr. Valentine over the last several months inquiring about getting a raise (bus drivers, lunchroom personnel, coaches, band directors). All have been told the same thing. "We are going into proration and if we give you a raise, then we would have to give everybody a raise".
VERY INTERESTING!! My son's school has air conditioners that won't work, toilets that leak and smell, and we can't get those fixed, but I'll bet Mr. Valentine's raise is on his next paycheck!!!
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