MASON CITY – Mason City School Board member and long-time educator Scott Warren offered a packed house a few words of wisdom Monday night on their attention to athletics versus their attention to academics.
The board was considering cuts to educators and coaches due to funding problems within the district.
Citing research he had done, Warren said Monday that “4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 11th grade… we are almost 30% of our kids are not on grade level or what is called not proficient. I certainly wish that we could get this kind of turnout for that. Think about that the next time some things come out in terms of communication as well. Little lecture in there. Glad to be back.”
Warren voted to cut teacher contracts but not to cut coaches.
I wish you bitches had the guts to write your real name down.
I too had Scott Warren as an economics teacher in high school. He was a clown then and is a clown to this very day. Good to see that some things just never change!
I had him as a teacher as well. Scott Warren was a totally obnoxious, self absorbed piece of doggy doo doo. He didn’t teach anything of substance that I can remember. It was all about him. He either talked about himself or made wise ass remarks to students. A total FAIL.
Warren was my economic teacher, still runs his mouth just like he done then to. He use to drive a beer truck in the summer, made pretty good money at it, told the class he is a teacher for 3 reasons. June July and August. Thats what he said.
Mr. Warren- He doesn’t care one way or the other, don’t let him fool ya. He is laughing all the way to the bank, along with all the other teachers that teach our childern in this district. THEY ARE BANKING SO MUCH MONEY IN JUST 8 MONTHS OF WORK!! I really truly feel the teachers are very well paid to just follow the bare minumim ciriculum that they do in this district. Trim the fat at the top and let academics and athletics still be a part of Mason City tradition!!! Ya 163 teachers with a roughly 11.3 million dollars between them in 8 months, thats ridiculous!!!
71 teachers make between $60,000-$65,000- roughly 4.5 million in salaries
40 teachers make between $65,000-$70,000- roughly 2.7 million in salaries
42 teachers make between $70,000-$80,000- roughly 3.1 million in salaries
10 teachers between $90,000-$100,000- roughly 1 million in salaries
What salary is good enough for teachers? They start their careers in the $30,000 range and toil away until they finally reach a decent wage, only to be pubicly scrutinized by smack talkers on an “anonymous” blog. Sure there may be educators who are just going through the motions… But a very large percent of them are busting their butts to teach children that have little or no parental support. Grade school homework folders go home with spelling words, vocabulary terms, permission slips, special activity notices, etc. Only to be returned unopened, unstudied, and typically unnoticed. So who are failing these children? The teachers take the time to teach during class time with little paraprofessional help, almost zero administrative support, but an extremely critical eye from the results watchers. And to your comment regarding 8 months of work – check your math. Teachers report in mid August, dont forget back to school conferences two nights in the first week of school (no overtime), work through until the last day of school which will be June 6th or 7th this year. Oh I can hear you saying “ya but they get a week at Christmas and a week for spring break…” Don’t forget, the night they “get” to spend at school for back-to-school night, the 7:30 start time every Tuesday morning, the quarterly conference nights (where it is a struggle to get parents to come in to find out why Timmy & Sally are having a hard time with spelling), the work they bring home with them nearly every night (papers to grade, lesson plans to prepare, book orders to process, new curriculum to decipher, & much more)… So your 8 month salary just became at least 9 and probably more like 9 and a half… Oh by the way don’t forget the continuing education training they have to take on weekends and over the summer… To say that the people who are sculpting the future work force are over paid is rediculous! Check your math; check your facts, or head back to school and become an educator yourself.
All I have to say about this is Mr Becker, Mr, Warren do you really care? I feel that all the board cares about right now is how to get the levy passed. You guys are Michichs right hands so you have to make her happy and not us taxpayers.
First off, it is not up to the teacher or School Board to make Johnny read. Or or count change back from one dollar. Or find the capitol of Nebraska.
It all rests upon the parents. If the parents will not lead by example, Johnny will never amount to any thing more than a ditch digger at a hog lot. I have seen where some parents get more upset that they ran out of booze than the fact Johnny failed his math test today.
For close to 75 years, Athletics, especially at the High School level, have been very closely connected with curriculum. But so were so many other extra curricular activities. Dad never had a Letter, but Mom sure did, in Drama.
Back then, when you had immigrant parents, you had to work twice as hard as they did, because you wanted them to be proud of you, to make it good in this country. And God help you if you slacked off. They were on first name basis with the instructors, and knew exactly was going on. They never waited til Parent Teacher conferences.
Personally, with all the mickey mouse distractions at schools, and the hodge-podge curriculum, it’s not surprising that Johnny cannot read, or make change back from a sawbuck. Those who perform the worst, most likely have parents who are not active, if at all they care.
I’m a ditch-digger and make a good living at it, so screw you! The world needs ditch-diggers too!
Problem is we only need so many ditches.
I qualified it by the words: ‘a hog lot’. Huge difference than a county worker.
I tend to agree with “Just Saying”. I think there is maybe 10% of the students (at the H.S. level) that could be handed an outline of what they are expected to learn over the next school year and with monthly progress tests, would pass with flying colors. These students are the academic elite, and they tend to get much more attention from teachers than they really need. Then we have that 30% that Mr. Warren is talking about. That is the group that needs the attention, to learn the basics of adult life, how to survive in society. Not everyone is ever going to be a CEO, a doctor, a lawyer, etc., but they will all become adults and have to get along in an adult world. Let’s try to give them the attention they need and deserve. To Sir With Love!
You can’t teach a rock. You can’t teach a tree. And you can’t teach a student who does not want to learn. When are we going to stop blaming the lack of teachers, the size of classes, and the lack of money for students not learning? We need to get back to basics. If the student doesn’t pass the tests to make it to the next grade, they get held back. We don’t coddle them. We make them face reality. We blame everyone and everything but the student. It’s time we stopped making excuses for them.
Thank “No Child Left Behind” for the state we are in. It will be a long time recovering from that stupid policy the Bush administration implemented.
I’d wager you know nothing about the policy other than Bush promoted it. So you automatically hate it.
I would win that wager and this makes ANOTHER good story for teachers I know.
I think what Mr. Warren was doing was firing a shot across the bow of the administrators. He does NOT want to cut teachers OR coaches. I think he meant that if they attempt to cut teachers next time there better be as good of turn out to protest.
US News and World Report ranks all the schools in the nation
Look yours up
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/iowa/rankings
@JBJ-Interesting. Not real good for the money we spend is it? Thank you.
Not all schools, just Public.
So by his reasoning, if our athletes are under performing as measured by wins and losses then it follows that we should cut coaches.
With guy like this guy in the classroom no wonder our kids are not learning.
If I were a teacher in the MC System I would be so humiliated by his inept demonstration of our educational values and desires.
So why all the applause from the audience?
30% of our children are underperforming, so we better cut teachers!
I think the amount of people who showed up to address this problem proves Mr. Warren wrong! They are obviously concerned with those 30% of students who are underperforming and would hate to see sports taking precedent over helping these students succeed.
What a sad state of affairs.
He should take a class on public speaking.
Oh my God, “Mr. Warren”, my social studies teacher that I haven’t seen since the 70’s. The most bloviated blowhard ever to teach at MCHS. lol