Barry Bernhardt Speaks
From the
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:
This is Barry, presently serving with my friends and shipmates in Sicily. As far as all this attention concerning my pay, the district is helping me out on this active duty period so I don't have to leave my family with E5 pay for the 2 weeks. Some of the details are very confusing. The district is helping out for only 6 of 10 working days. The other four of the ten are personal and comp days I have already earned and are considered vacation. That pay from school is already mine and shouldn't be mentioned in any assistance calculations. Weekends in the military are considered work days, they are not as a teacher. By the way, I can work at a fast food place on weekends and accept their benefit package and it is no business of the districts. They wouldn't claim any rights on that money, I hope. If all the numbers are crunched I have to pay for the sub for 6 days, that was the deal that Mr. G offered me and instead of a full leave of absence (0 help) I took it. There is no preplanned deal involving me and Mr. G beyond what the district letter states that I'm am aware of. When I went to Aviano in 1997, the district did a similar deal, took my military base pay for the days they were going to compensate me (one for one)but I didn't have to pay the sub that time. I also got to keep the housing because it was not considered pay but allowance. Probably, much like a person that receives an allowance for an automobile or mileage like many senior executives. I'm pretty dizzy with all the figures being thrown out there. My normal bi- weekly teacher pay is 2505, not 3484 or what ever is being printed. The truth is I am grateful to the people of Kenowa Hills for their support in any way during this time of military duty. Its a great district full of awesome kids and parents, we are just having a hard time with contract negotiations. As for this new deal, I'll be returning home soon and I'm sure that I'll get to see the new deal just like all of the world has.
Barry Bernhardt
PS. I'm a proud navy reservist and science teacher. I'm definitely not an English teacher so cut me some slack on the quality of this document.
I posted this as soon as I found it...
