Fellow Long Islanders,

Boycott Long Island Senators: Skelos, LaValle, Foley, C. Johnson, O. Johnson, Padavan and Marcellino. 

 The State Senate just passed School Contingency Budget Bill, S5523. The Bill increases property taxes by 4 to 10% forever and renders school budget votes meaningless. Senator John Flanagan opposed bringing the bill out of committee and did not vote for the bill.

 In response to the New York State Senate bill which will increase school  budget contingency caps from a negative of -0.4%a to a positive of 3.7%,  LIFER calls for a campaign boycott of All NYS Senators who voted for the bill. Their vote is disgraceful. Senate disregard for those in financial stress and the unemployed is beyond arrogances and indifference.  It’s Let them eat cake!

 We also call for a boycott of the Republican and Democratic parties. They are in the municipal union pocket and consider taxpayers food.  We ask all homeowners not attend party functions, fund raisers or events. Contribute directly to candidates who support your interest. Whenever possible vote other party lines. Example; support Steve Levy for Governor by directly contributing to Friends of Steve Levy and voting on any other line.     

 It is time to end the “it’s for the children” myth. We must take our schools back … Our school boards like the State Legislature are made up of sellouts and union flunkies. NISUT spends millions to defeat school board trustees who disagree with their lobbying goals.  Very few school board members serve without NISUT blessing.

The union protection of mean spirited and incompetent teachers has destroyed the Teacher-Parent relationship. Almost every parent on Long Island has experienced a bad teacher and or an arrogant administrator. 

Curriculum has become a jobs program constructed on no accountability and less work for the teacher.  For a hundred years New York had required 3.5 hours of supervised reading, comprehension, memory and mathematic skill building followed by approximately one hour of review (homework). Today, the Curriculum has become a ditto sheet.  Subject matter is not as important as the ditto exercise.   In the past, students wrote essay answers and were penalized for grammar and spelling errors. Today, most students do dittos and occasionally are penalized for grammar and spelling errors. This is just one way curriculum skill building is watered down. It is easier to check 25 dittos then read and grade 250 hand written answers. If a student properly performs the ditto exercises over twelve years, they earn a diploma.

Long Island Educrat salaries and benefits are the engine behind the destruction of our economy. Their control of politicians and school boards are the reason our children can’t afford to live here. The 2008-9 Teacher & Administrator gross salaries as reported to the Teachers retirement says it all

16,500   Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between $458,000 and $100,000
5,926      Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between   $90,000 and   $99.999
 6,871     Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between   $80,000 and   $89.999
 6,523     Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between   $70,000 and   $79.999
 4,211     Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between   $60,000 and   $69.999
2,834      Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between   $50,000 and   $59.999
1,451      Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between   $40,000 and   $49.999
771         Long Island Teachers & Administrators earned between   $35,000 and   $39.999

 If you would like a copy of  the 2008-9 gross Teacher and Administrator salaries as reported to the TRS email us at info@lischooltax.com Please use the  subject line to  indicate what district you want of if you want all of long Island.

	If you can read this in English you should thank the soldiers that defended you and the teachers that taught you.