Interesting that the teachers give back $400,000/year and the BOE hires an assistant principal at a cost of $100,000/year. I thought the idea was to educate students. That money could be better spent in the class room than on another administrator. Nordonia is Twinsburg's size and only has 2 assisstant principals, Aurora is 350 students smaller and only has 1 assistant principal. Twinsburg High School population is declining, 9 teachers were cut, 15% of the classified staff was cut and the BOE and Superintendent hire an assistant principal. What kind of business model is that?

I agree with previous comment, but need to call out the district for not eliminating term of service as a requisit of who gets laid off. Pay freezes should have started immediately as well.

In light of cutting teacher staffing and next years high school students taking 7 classes instead of 8, I would recommend the teachers teach 4 block classes per day. I think the teachers time is underutilized when they only teach 3-90 minute classes. Therefore, they only actually teach for 4.5 hours/day. I think it would be reasonable for the teachers to teach 4-90 minute classes which would mean teaching for 6 hours in an 8 hour work day - still leaving a 2 hour planning time. There were several options for the block schedule proposed, however, they did suggest having the teachers teach more classes. Instead, they have chosen that the students have less classes. There are so many great classes offered at the high school and it is disappointing that students can not take as many classes.

So does that mean teachers will be paid for a full day but only actually teaching for 6 hours? Their pay scales should be adjusted accordingly.

This is not accurate information. Most teachers do not work 8 hours a day. You do have to account for the time teachers are required to be there before school begins for students, class change time, 1/2 hr lunch, and required planning time. So they are working their hours/wages. I would hope you don't expect them to do their planning at home during unpaid time?

Teachers do more than just teach. They do daily duties, prepare for class and grade papers just to mention a few things. It sounds like you had a more education and have no idea what a teacher does during their day. Teachers take papers home nightly because they don't have enough time during the day to do all their work. How often do you bring work home? Twinsburg is top heavy with administrators. Everyone knows this. That is the point I was making was how is having more administrators at the high school going to improve education in Twinsburg. It is a waste of money. The high school has a dysfunctional administrative team and adding more administrators only make it more dysfunctional. The BOE of education needs to get back to educating students and not covering for ineffective leadership in the district. Watch your state test scores in the coming year. The cuts the board has made in the prior years are beginning to show and will really be taking a dive in the next couple of years, And that's the TRUTH.

I'm glad to see the conversation on this topic is vibrant. It is so apparent that this is a community that cares about its schools, but more importantly, its students.

Good teachers work a lot. My wife is a middle school teacher and she leaves for school at 6am every day and gets there at 6:30 not having to report until 7:45am. Then she always has work to do when she gets home, whether its planning, grading or whatever and thats on the weekends also. So doing school work on unpaid time well thats the life of a teacher. By the way a friend of ours is also a teacher and does the same thing.