ANDE BOSTAIN TALKS ABOUT HIS RUN FOR THE BURTON SCHOOL BOARD
Ande Bostain is running for reelection to the Burton School Board, having completed his first 3 year term on the board. Two other candidates are also running for the two at large seats on the board; David Warner and Tracey Cox. Incumbent Brian Jaeger is still listed on the ballot, but he resigned from the board in April.
Bostain says his priority if elected is to get everyone working together and moving in the right direction for the school. He says another priority is getting more pay to the teachers. He said part of the issue has to do with the lack of state funding, but the board needs to do what it can to increase teacher salaries. Burton voters rejected an $18 million bond election in 2016 and Bostain says the board needs to handle it differently next time:
Bostain also says that it is important to divide the bond into separate parts to give the voters choices on what they want. When asked about academics and athletics, Bostain said that both are important to students:
The Burton School board election is Saturday, May 5th and voting will take place in the Burton High School lobby that day from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM.
If you aren’t paying at least equal to Brenham, what makes Burton such a paradise that teachers wouldn’t want to go to Brenham?
Hasn’t Burton always felt that it is better than Brenham?
Not everyone is a sports fan, at least to the extent that Ande thinks.
Emphasis should be placed on improving teacher morale and promoting an exciting (and expensive) curriculum that teaches above the STATE EXAMS.
As successful as they are, ahletics, and football in particular, should not be the motivation that attracts good teachers.
It’s cheaper to maintain the perfectly fine current football field and bleachers, than to invest millions in a new shrine.
And since the “class size issue” is the root cause of kids slipping through the cracks, an increase in unruly students being undisciplined, and a general watering down of everything that used to make Burton great, why not invest that money in parity pay with Brenham, hire more teachers, and hire an administrator for the middle grades?
I do not believe teachers can make double or anywhere close to that.That would put a teachers salary at 80,000. Totally impossible. I agree the teachers need a raise but you might want to actually figure out what the real reason is behind the good teachers leaving. The morale is horrible and it has even affected the community. The district needs to research what is really happening before you can try to make things better. After all, most teachers do not teach for the money, they teach for the love of the kids. If teachers are happy with everything else, they will overlook a few thousand dollars a year. Burton’s pay scale is not that far behind Brenham’s.