TCHS Hires New Head Coach
At their meeting on March 17th, the school board approved the hiring of Shane Boggs as TCHS's new Head Football Coach and Athletic Director. Coach Boggs will replace Price Harris, who has been transferred to Steinhatchee School to finish out his annual contract.
Friday's edition of the Perry News-Herald had a front page article about Coach Boggs, whom they quoted as setting three priorities for students:
"Number one: they will put forth great effort in the classroom. Two: they will promote a positive image of our football program and our school. And three: they will prepare to win."
The paper reports that Coach Boggs' wife is also a teacher and a coach, but that she's currently a stay-at-home mom who "plans to stay at home for several more years."
The issues surrounding his controversial hiring have been (and continue to be) covered in other topics. For this topic, I'd like to focus on possibly changes Coach Boggs may bring to Taylor County. The paper reports that in 2007 his team in Thomasville had a perfect record and won the state championship. Can he lead TCHS to similar success? Will academics be the top priority for team members? How long should it take to turn the Bulldogs around?
Friday's edition of the Perry News-Herald had a front page article about Coach Boggs, whom they quoted as setting three priorities for students:
"Number one: they will put forth great effort in the classroom. Two: they will promote a positive image of our football program and our school. And three: they will prepare to win."
The paper reports that Coach Boggs' wife is also a teacher and a coach, but that she's currently a stay-at-home mom who "plans to stay at home for several more years."
The issues surrounding his controversial hiring have been (and continue to be) covered in other topics. For this topic, I'd like to focus on possibly changes Coach Boggs may bring to Taylor County. The paper reports that in 2007 his team in Thomasville had a perfect record and won the state championship. Can he lead TCHS to similar success? Will academics be the top priority for team members? How long should it take to turn the Bulldogs around?
That was his last season, what about his first season?
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At this stage, I really do not care anymore. I wish the new coach well, I love Taylor County football, but, quite honestly, as probably most Taylor County residents, I am just concerned about economic survival. The games are now too expensive for most residents and it is quite lamentable that students will miss out on this portion of their high school experience. Again, I wish the team all the best, but I have other things to worry about these days.
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The school district has other things to worry about as well, namely being the only school district in the State of Florida operating in a deficit budget that is not likely to be better next year. This was noted by the AG's office in a (public meeting) legislative committee meeting late Monday with Dyal and Carlton in attendance and being questioned. The whole financial status of the district should be job #1. It will not be long until the State takes over the district. This is a far cry from Dyal's assertion that they have $800,000 in the bank and are out from under DOE's thumb.
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So just because the school board hired a new coach now everyone thinks that was the #1 concern of the school board. Get a freaking life!! There was a problem with the position so it was changed... and please don't give me the whole well we could have had 2 coaches for free... that is a joke!!! The school board has done there job... The superintendent has done his job... Give them a chance... The financial fiasco is because of the OLD SUPERINTENDENT, has anyone wondered why he didn't run again, it has already been discussed!!! And if you think there is more important topics that need to be discussed during the school board meetings then go and discuss them... stop bickering on here about how the school board is so bad and the school district is so bad, we all know it and have heard it already!!!
and last but not least GET A LIFE!!!
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AMEN!!!!
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Congratulations to Coach Boggs on his lovely new home on Worley Way. I don't know how he can afford it on a teacher's salary and with two kids, but my hat's off to him for swinging it. The community has even gone so far as to put a nice sign in his yard welcoming him and his family. Every new teacher should receive such a warm welcome!
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3 kids...
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Why is it OK for Jack Brown to draw a large Salary from our money and live in Clark Subdivision, but not Coach Boggs?
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Well Jack Brown and family all have their collective head in the public trough and get retirement from the military as well. It may become Taylor's new welfare block! As far as Boggs, we may know what he is getting on the table, but lord knows what the school distrct is giving him under the table? Mowing contract? Booster funds? ?? Iwould like to see his financial disclosure form or tax return at the end of the year! Most of the houses in Clark subdivision look like trailers with facades anyhow.
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Surely you're not equating the retirement pay people earn from serving their country in the military with welfare?
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But the point is that Coach Boggs *doesn't* draw a large salary. He's paid a teacher's salary, because that's his primary job. He's paid extra for coaching, but even when you add it all together it's still a modest salary--especially when it's the only income in a family with several kids.
It could be that Coach Boggs is independently wealthy. Or maybe he has saved his money frugally over the years. If so, good for him.
But if the reason he can afford to live in a brand new house in one of the nicest subdivisions in town is because he's getting special favors, then we have a problem.
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Coach Boggs salary isn't modest. He is a teacher at 15 years which is approximately $38,957 (BA) or $$42,620 (MA) base salary (not including benefits) PLUS 2 supplemental salaries based on a beginning teacher's salary ($30,000), 19% as TCHS Atheletic Director AND 14% TCHS Head Football Coach (approximately $9,900 a year) so his base salary PLUS supplemental salaries is estimated to be anywhere from $48,857 to $52,520. Add in approximately 21% in benefits which is another $10,260 - $11,029. He is costing the district between $59,117 and $63,549. Remember this information is ALL public record. Not too bad when a number of the 67 annual contract teachers who have been with the district between one and three years may not have a job in August. You do the math.
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The pay isn't modest relative to what other teachers make (the supplements are, as you mention, significant).
But a gross salary of $53,000 *is* modest in the grand scheme of things, especially for someone who's married and has three kids.
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Did I forget to tell you that many of those annual contract teachers are earning between $30,000 and $33,000 a year with no supplemental salaries?
By the way, welcome to Taylor County and Perry, Coach Boggs!
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In another thread, a poster wrote that "the district just hired an assistant football coach for the high school and is bringing his wife on as an English teacher."
I was wondering, can anyone else confirm this? It's the first I've heard. I know that Coach Boggs' wife is a teacher, but she has said she's not going to be working for the time being. I assumed this was due to the fact that it would look pretty bad for the district to hire a coach's wife during a time of layoffs. But if they've hired the assistant coach's wife, maybe that's not the case.
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Look Bad!? Really I don't think they care how they look, judging from the recent moves and appointments. Look at what's been done for a certain family, and their ex's. I also wonder if Ms. Ivey will keep her current salaray as she moves to the classroom, and what exactly is a teacher on special assignment? My hunch is one of the principal appointments doesn't have the certification to be principal so another person is brought in with the certification, (on special assignment) it's an Oscarism, same game different names.
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No, Ms. Ivey will not keep her principal salary. However, I wouldn't be surprised if she actually ended up earning a higher hourly rate of pay as a teacher than she would've if she had stayed a principal (the district cut the pay of the Steinhatchee principal position effective July 1).
A "teacher on special assignment" is someone who's paid a teacher's hourly rate but who doesn't actually teach.
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I did not see where any of our football "stars" participated in natinal signing day this week. It was great to see many kids from the region from Madison and Jefferson and other counties get "sign" and receive scholarships to colleges and universities. There has been much said locally about all the resources put into hiring a new coach and related items. If this produced kids who benefited on national signing day it would be great, however all of the time money and effort expended by the school board does not appear to such produce dividends. Maybe next year the district can focus more on education primarily and secondly on such extracurricular activites as football. Let's prepare our kids for the future, world of work and generate kids who can read and write. Duh Huh, tel delbert and them.
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Yeah all that work and the greatest aspiration is to work at the feed store loading bags of feed. lol! Or worse spending time in remedial courses at the local community college learning what you should have learned in high school; basic math, english, ect...performing at the 9th grade level
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We need to look at the overall leadership. Read the "public documents aka booking desk" you will see baseball coaches and School District finance managers" (not to bash anyone) a matter of pubic record". Employees still being paid and still aat their jobs.. Where in the private business world they would be dismissed until their hearing was held. They are around our children and handling OUR money, (Examples, Mentors, Stewards, hello here, wake up McFLY) .
Then there are Coaches who never played high school football, coaching and teaching without degrees in this and other counties( not just ours) and we wonder why our students can not get into a College. They are not taught , they are not lead there is less than 5% going to college. NO Where. They are not trained to.. The rest is going to work at the prison and at local factories ( nothing wrong with that) but why keep saying. You want more when you will not Change the School Board "not one has a 4 year degree", the School Leadership or Leaders.
You just complain. There are not bad people they are just not good stewards of our childrens futures. They want the 25,000.00 per year and the power of a school board member or the suppliment of 5,000.00 for each football, baseball, basketball, tennis , soccor team they coach. IT is a way to rob the budget ( which just went up) with the Superintendent supplying the means and choosing the robbers. "We will never get better until we stop accepting less than what we want" !! We are setting our Children up to fail, our school systems says pay our teachers more, then we should expect more from our teachers , than to hear your child just can't learn the way I teach. Maybe you could learn to teach the way the children can lean easier.
This is not a Capital One Commercial, where you just throw more money at it.
It must be fixed, older aniquated teachers must be fired and new teachers must step up to the plate, be an example, (not a headline) help a child learn and grow to their potential). Not just throw a ball at them and say "if you can play sports you can get out of Perry otherwise you are doomed".
The solutions is CHANGE at teh Poles and at the Leadership level!
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Are you serious? Not one board member has a four-year degree? I honestly didn't realize that. There were a couple I assumed didn't, but I thought one or two of them probably did.
As for the booking desk... Well, the folks that run the newspaper scratch the district's back when the district scratches theirs. I'm pretty sure the Finance Director's name never appeared on a booking desk list.
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A lot of folks' names and "good kids" never end up in the "local newspaper". It is amazing that we have such folks running the school district with arrest records. Finance directors and other critical school board employees should be held to a higher standard given the responsibilty entrusted in their jobs. I hop Dyal has his staff bonded! Does Dyal go down and bail out all of the school district employees when they are arrested, I bet bond for Dyal's team members is negotiated in the union contract! LOL!!! I think one school board employee may have a degree, but that does not ensure honesty or fiduciary maturity, and if it took an individual many many years to get a degree, the person may not be the brightest bulb in the box. The Oscar era is famous for hiring the most unqualified people who could not gain employment anywhere else, thank goodness the Jessica Lundsford Act has cleared up some of this practice. And the prior post is right, we should expect more, we should demand more, more of the school board, more of Dyal, more of the district administrators, principals and last but not lease instructional and non-instructional staff members. I always laugh when I aam taking my kids to school and see teachers arriving late with that "I hate this palce" look on their face as they drag in for another day of teaching.
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That Dyal and his team are quite a dynamic group. The "local newspaper" comes out this week with their bi- monthly pandering story to Dyal and the school district (payback for advertising and golf treats) being financially sound in the black and the other hand telling the union that the teachers caannot have their step increases due to the budget being in the red by tens of thousands of dollars. So Dyal and Ms. Jailbird what is the true answer on the district finances.
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According to the newspaper, the district is required to have a 3.5% surplus and remains $213,000 below that goal.
How much would the step increases cost?
Is your argument that the district has plenty of money for raises, but is hoarding it? If so, what's their motivation for doing so?
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My thoughts are on a weekly/monthly basis Dyal and company do not have the faintest idea where the financial shape of the district falls. Albeit a moving target and a "working Budget", district staff should have a good idea where they are in the budget; monthly, quarterly, ect...There always seems to be mis-information provided to everyone! If the district budget is really in the red, act fiscally responsible! Dyal is doing no better than Oscar and does not have a clue. Can he even read a financial report? We have established that the school board cannot read and comprehend a financial report.
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I absolutely agree that the district likely doesn't know its true financial condition, and the outcome of the audit mentioned in the paper should prove interesting. But that's all the more reason to act conservatively, and not give the raises.
Which, admittedly, sucks for school district employees. But in this economy, people are lucky to have a job at all.
On the plus side, this also means no raises for the district's leadership.
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I agree, the school district personnel should be thankful to be employed in the current economic climate in Florida. It is a shame that the raises are not feasible at this time, nor the "steps", but you have to see that the actions of Dyal and company just do not always seem appropriate in light of the financial shape of the district. Dyal needs to continue to make the hard choices and cuts and the school board needs to as well.
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A wise person once told me the definition for INSANITY is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.
Need I say more about our school board, school administration, and loser teachers.
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I agree with the prior post about the budget and school finances. Dyal and company do not seem to have a handle on the district budget and what budget expenditures have been made regarding the budget year. How the district keeps it's lights on, makes payroll and operates on a daily basis is a house of cards that will ultimately fall. You have to wonder what the school board members are aware of when Dyal and company cannot even pull together basic figures on costs. A shame and an absurd thing in the 21st century. It would be criminal in the real world!
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Does the finance office have a calculator? Can they use it? LOL! Can Dyal count over ten with his shoes on?
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Well I do not know about counting to ten with shoes on or off, but Dyal and his "team" are math challenged when they cannot even pull together budget numbers for personnel matters. What a complete joke the finance office and Dyal's administration has become. The previous poster is right, it is amazing that the administrative office operates at all....with all of those gal-pals and other gender challenged folks!
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