MCC behind peers in pay?

Look out, folks. You're about to get it in the checkbook. Again.

A Florida-based consulting firm (there is no qualified consultant in McHenry or Lake County?) is telling the MCC Board that their "poor" teachers and staff are underpaid.

This makes me want to vomit!

MCC is a two-year college. It's a community college. It's not a four-year college. It doesn't need to be a four-year college.

MCC doesn't need a Ph.D. to teach a kid how to put resin on a violin bow.
Or how to slice and dice an onion.
Or how to change oil in an old truck.

And it doesn't need to pay teachers to get MAs and PhDs so that they can hold up the College for more money before they move on to another school.

And it doesn't matter what teachers in other similar schools are being paid. Maybe the name of the consulting firm is really Jones Jones Jones and Jones. You know, "keeping up with the Jones"?

MCC has revenues, out of which the trustees hire administrators to run the College. That's all the money there is, folks. That's all you get.

Your job, Trustees, is to do the best you can with the money you have available. You don't have to hire the best. We don't need Nobel Prize winners at MCC. There is plenty of money to hire "good" teachers.

After all, look at the students they are working with. Too many of them need remedial reading and math, because our McHenry County high schools failed to teach them those skills before kicking them out with diplomas they didn't "earn".

How much should taxpayers spend on a person to teach a student how many ounces there are in a cup or in a pound? It's not worth $80,000/year!

MCC should offer classes in basic skills and general, liberal arts education. If a student wants more, then he goes on to a different school.