You’ve got to wonder what the end of all this is going to be. In Van Buren Township and the Van Buren Public Schools, the salaries for top employees is rising. This is taxpayer money and it sure makes us nervous.
The most recent case is the Human Resources Director at Van Buren Public Schools, Abdul Madyun, who resigned July 25 to take a better job as HR Director for the Northville Schools.
This sent the superintendent into a study of like jobs for like districts and he got results that ended up raising the pay for three administrators significantly. The finance director got a $17,000 pay hike. The other two got $3,500 each.
Supt. Kudlak said he didn’t want to wait until those administrators left for better-paying jobs to raise the pay for that position.
We understand they want to get ahead of others bailing out, but where will this all end for taxpayers? Is it really necessary?
In VBT an administrator left for a job a few years ago and he was being paid about $70,000. They hired him back at $98,000 a few weeks ago. And made up a new job for him to fill. VBT is working fewer days a week.
And the taxpayer is stretching his dollar to try and buy enough groceries to last and enough gallons of gas to suffice. Some are getting much richer on that taxpayer dollar.
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Maybe they should have paid their employees better and treated them like human beings before it went too far. Now with the new “no work” movement and everyone trying to unionize, places that have notoriously treated employees badly, like Walmart, Taco Bell, McDonald’s, are struggling to find employees. Every single time you go to McDonald’s on Belleville Rd it’s always new employees every week. Nobody wants to work fast food anymore.
Personally? I say good riddance to garbage. I worked for McDonald’s and was treated like trash by both management and the rude customers. I hope all the fast food places close. It’ll be what the owners and customers deserve for being rude. You don’t treat people like that who serve you.
McDonald’s is paying “up to” $15 an hour, but the higher wages are only for managers. Regular employees get around $12-$13.
Now compare that to Menards are $16, Meijer at $15, target at $16 and those are STARTING pay. Keep that in mind during your next job search!
Exactly. With this superintendent, you rarely hear about money being spent to help kids actually learn. This district battles to be an employment agency, rather than a center for student learning. And that is what it is. Student scores are in the toilet, and we don’t hear much about that do we? What about kids? Why is it always been about adults, and greed greed greed. Again, it’s an employment agency and students are at the bottom of the priority pile. Kudlak needs to take a hike, and the school board should wise up. We can barely afford gas, but let’s pay administrators big bucks out of our tax dollars. Those who would argue, please show me where students are a priority?
Well, you could lose all your educators to higher paying districts and save your tax dollars. Maybe teach your own kids. I mean, by reading your comments that should go well.
Maybe teach my own kids? That’s what I do already, in addition to the “education” they are supposed to be getting at VBPS. It’s BS. The comment above about student learning is dead on. Nobody gives a crap about kids and what they learn. Look at the scores Michigan posts about schools. VBPS is absolutely horrific. Shameful. Anybody ever talk about that? We hear a lot of nonsense at board meetings about this and that, but the results are never equal to all the blabbing about it. NEVER. The school board people are on there just for show, not that they ever force any real issues about learning. Get a clue folks. VBPS is a horrible example of an educational institution. And it IS an institution, like most institutions, it will never change. It was the same when I was there, and when I got into college I had a freaking rude awakening about what I learned compared to students from other schools. I was so behind. My eyes were opened, and VBPS does a disservice to all students as they continue to ignore the real issue. Shove em through and collect state aid. Screw learning.
My kid went to VBPS, tested EXTREMELY well, went to an ivy league school and makes a high six-figure income.
In addition to support at home, my student also made the best of his many opportunities at VBPS.
Sounds like a you-problem.
Bwahahah! Look at the state scores. Your kid is the exception, not the rule. People like you are amazingly shortsighted and naive as you have no care or regard for the average kid who keeps falling further and further behind due to the substandard education they receive at VBPS.
It’s a “you problem” alright…when all you think of is YOU! And exactly when did this alleged child graduate? Certainly wasn’t in the last couple of years! Wise up.
Well why don’t all of you offended people make it different? Or is complaining on a website just easier for you?
I worked hard, my kid worked hard. All is earned, not given. Go ahead and put your money where your mouth is and be part of a positive solution.
I’ll wait