Speaker 1: Charge some donkey to day is just so themselves. I've
Speaker 1: been watching Charlotte Mandy. I never heard them donkey other
Speaker 1: day say it again Charlotte, man, yes you are that Charlotte.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: Yes donkey Today for Monday, January twenty second goes to
Speaker 2: the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District in Charlotte, North Carolina. Salute
Speaker 2: to the seven or four drop on the clues bombs
Speaker 2: for the Queen City. Man, I love Charlotte. I haven't
Speaker 2: been to Charlotte in a long time. I'm definitely coming
Speaker 2: to Charlotte on my book toe and I dropped my
Speaker 2: third book upon your head top or whatever the hell
Speaker 2: Drake be saying. But today Charlotte Mecklenburg School District has
Speaker 2: to get the biggest he hard because they're playing with
Speaker 2: people who shouldn't be played with, and those people are teachers,
Speaker 2: dropping the clues bombs for some of the greatest public
Speaker 2: servants the world has ever seen. Public school teachers, Okay,
Speaker 2: the most overworked, under paid, underappreciated folks in our society.
Speaker 1: These people received something from.
Speaker 2: The Charlotte Mecklenburg School District that they should have received
Speaker 2: a long time ago. And they should receive often, and
Speaker 2: that's something as a bonus. Okay, Yes, two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five high school teachers received the bonus of one thousand,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty dollars. That's fifty dollars more than
Speaker 2: the Stemmis folks got for COVID.
Speaker 1: Okay, and well deserved.
Speaker 2: Look, my mother was a high school English teacher for
Speaker 2: many years in the Berkeley County School District in South Carolina,
Speaker 2: so I'll overstand the need for a bonus for these
Speaker 2: high school English teachers, and the.
Speaker 1: Teachers got one.
Speaker 2: But as the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District give us the
Speaker 2: Charlotte Mecklenburg School District take off away. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Queen City News for the report.
Speaker 3: Police more than two hundred high school English teachers in
Speaker 3: CMS will now have to pay back money due.
Speaker 1: To a payroll error.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: In a statement, CMS leaders say two hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: five teachers received a recruitment bonus and the amount of
Speaker 3: one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars. The bonus, however,
Speaker 3: was intended for teachers who are new to a critical
Speaker 3: shortage teaching area, which the district says was just an
Speaker 3: unfortunate oversight. Teachers now have to be able to have
Speaker 3: the option of repaying the bonus and a lump sum
Speaker 3: from their February check, or choose to be able to
Speaker 3: repay the money over three months. Now, CMS says impacted
Speaker 3: teachers will, however, receive a separate two hundred dollars monthly
Speaker 3: retention bonus.
Speaker 2: They want the whole Black History month check. Why y'all
Speaker 2: playing with them? People like that?
Speaker 1: Why y'all playing with them? Teachers like that?
Speaker 2: An extra twelve hundred and fifty dollars is a game change,
Speaker 2: and extra twelve hundred and fifty dollars can give folks
Speaker 2: some much needed relief in regards to their bills, food, rent. Hell,
Speaker 2: how about an extra twelve hundred might allow you to
Speaker 2: get some R and R, little rest and relaxation.
Speaker 1: You might be able to go.
Speaker 2: Get a massage, our new wig installation, your nails and
Speaker 2: feet done. All I know is an extra twelve fifty
Speaker 2: is a lot of money for everyday working class people,
Speaker 2: especially teachers. And then to send these people an email
Speaker 2: from a district HR letting them know that one thousand,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty dollars will be deducted from their
Speaker 2: next paycheck.
Speaker 1: My god, that's cruel and unusual punishment.
Speaker 2: And then you send another email saying teachers will have
Speaker 2: the option to repay the money in a lump sum
Speaker 2: in February, are spread it over three months. Well, let
Speaker 2: me ask you a question, Charlotte Mecklenburg School District, Where
Speaker 2: in the hell are teachers supposed to get the money
Speaker 2: to pay y'all back? I did some research, and by research,
Speaker 2: I mean I did my Google's and the average high
Speaker 2: school teacher salary in Charlotte, North Carolina is sixty three thousand,
Speaker 2: eight hundred as of December twenty seven, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: but the rangely typically falls between fifty one thousand, seven
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy nine thousand, three hundred. You already know
Speaker 2: uncle Sam getting half of that, Okay, So all I'm
Speaker 2: saying is, these English teachers don't have one thousand, two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars to pay back, right. Most of
Speaker 2: these teachers are already budgeting anyway. Every dollar is accounting for.
Speaker 2: Now you have to add another bill to the budget.
Speaker 2: These teachers are already paying light bills and gas bills
Speaker 2: and screaming service bills, and phone bills, childcare bills.
Speaker 1: I'm sure student loans. Now they gotta pay y'all back
Speaker 1: because y'all made a mistake.
Speaker 2: Nah man, I don't understand how these burdens always fall
Speaker 2: on we the people. Okay, if you made a mistake
Speaker 2: and gave me a bonus I wasn't supposed to receive,
Speaker 2: then you gotta eat that, especially when the bonus that
Speaker 2: was given was given the people who.
Speaker 1: Actually deserve it.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and twenty five teachers getting one thousand, two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars a piece equates to two hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars. Now,
Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but I did some googles and
Speaker 2: it says the school that that school district, Charlotte Mecklenburg
Speaker 2: School District, has a budget of two point one billion.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just telling you whatout Google, And I don't
Speaker 2: even know if this is where that money came from.
Speaker 2: But two hundred and eighty one thousand, two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars is nothing, and it shouldn't be nothing for
Speaker 2: the people who shaped the character caliber in future of
Speaker 2: our kids. When I say that two hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: one thousand, two undred and fifty dollars is nothing, I
Speaker 2: mean it's nothing if you have a budget of two
Speaker 2: point one billion.
Speaker 1: And once again, if.
Speaker 2: It's going to the people who shaped the carri think
Speaker 2: caliber and future of our kids, meaning the teachers, let
Speaker 2: them have it. Please, Let bring me mak give the
Speaker 2: Charlotte Mecklenburg School District the biggest.
Speaker 4: He haw he haw he ha. You stupid motherfuck?
Speaker 1: Are you dumb? Really grinds my gears this morning?
Speaker 2: Man. The teachers are more than deservant of a bonus.
Speaker 2: God bless them. If they get an extra one thousand,
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty dollars and they paycheck, eat that,
Speaker 2: Charlotte Mecklenburg School District.
Speaker 1: Don't make them pay that back.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Let's let's let's open up the phone lines. Let's go
Speaker 5: eight hundred five eight five one oh five to one.
Speaker 1: Is this foul?
Speaker 5: The fact that you're gonna give the teachers a bonus,
Speaker 5: a well deserved bonus, the fact that they need the bonus,
Speaker 5: and then after what five days later, you take the
Speaker 5: bonus back and say, hey, we're gonna take it back
Speaker 5: from you in a lump, some twelve fifty, or we're
Speaker 5: gonna break it down in the payments. That's horrible, And
Speaker 5: like Charlomage said, Christmas just happened. So I'm sure some
Speaker 5: of them had to pay off some of their Christmas bills.
Speaker 1: That's hard, some of their.
Speaker 5: Christmas gifts that they had to buy their kids. Or
Speaker 5: I'll shore some of their students asking eight hundred five
Speaker 5: eight five.
Speaker 4: One oh five one.
Speaker 5: Let's open up the phone line. Should the teachers have
Speaker 5: to pay this money back? No? Or should the Charlotte
Speaker 5: Mecklenburg School District just have to eat it?
Speaker 4: Eat it now? It's funny. They find money for everything else.
Speaker 1: Eat it.
Speaker 4: They need something, they fined money. They need a new gym.
Speaker 4: They five money.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know anything about this school.
Speaker 1: Don't be generalized.
Speaker 4: People usually five money when they feel need money.
Speaker 2: They find we don't know the situation, all right, but
Speaker 2: let's just add somebody in Charlotte, now.
Speaker 4: No gym.
Speaker 1: We got right up that we want a gym. We
Speaker 1: didn't write no damn gym. Right, you start with a right,
Speaker 1: all right, you might city, all right?
Speaker 5: You eight hundred five eight five one five one. We're
Speaker 5: asking should the teachers have to give back the money?
Speaker 5: That is the question. Should the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District
Speaker 5: just have to eat it? That is the question. Eight
Speaker 5: hundred five eight five five to one. I hate you, yo,
Speaker 5: That's why I'm like.
Speaker 4: That's what the lady said. Earli yo. Show y'all show
Speaker 4: not empathy. You're not nice.
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