Raising more than a few tempers

Who is more valuable to our community; a school administrator or a

teacher?

The district board of trustees has quietly gone along with what

can only be termed a blow to bureaucracy or empire building by the

chancellor and his cronies. The question shouldn’t be whether they

should be given an increase in their pay. The question should be why

are they still here?

ALAN REMINGTON

Costa Mesa

I’m looking at this article and I’m thinking about all of the

students who could benefit from having that money put into the

classroom and not into a few people’s salaries. And having $10,000

for a travel budget is a shame.

LUCY PELT

Costa Mesa

I think it’s outrageous and I am a retired faculty member from

OCC.

JENNY FEREIRRA

Costa Mesa

I think it’s really ridiculous about the cuts in student education

and the raises for the administrators. I don’t believe that is

correct. I am a student and I’m going to be cut from my classes, many

of which I need. That’s baloney and it should not be happening.

VALERIE BAYNES

Mission Viejo

I think the board members think we are the dumbest taxpayers in

the world. They just finished telling us that there was no money to

have summer school as is and now they give administrators a 24%

raise? They just made sure that the KOCE Foundation, which bought the

Public Broadcasting System station, won’t have to pay any interest.

Wow. How dumb do they think we are?

HELEN EVERS

Costa Mesa

I’m currently a student at Orange Coast College and heard about

the raises for some of the employees. It doesn’t make sense because

if the school can’t afford to buy a simple scanner for the computer

labs then why are they boosting up other employees’ annual income.

And the classes are being canceled and were losing out on credits,

among other things. I think it’s ridiculous. It shouldn’t have been

done.

CHRISTINA NIXON

Lake Forest

I think that the pay hike for the administrators of the Coast

Community College District is an egregious breach of trust at a time

when we are struggling to offer classes to students. It’s going to

cost us the equivalent of 27 sections of classes that could serve 800

students. So its not really the right time or place. I’m not sure if

there is a right time or place to award administrators a 24% increase

in their salary. I think I’d be hard pressed in my conscious to award

it.

STEVE GOETZ

Irvine