Oh Hooray! More fun for Hurricane Ike ravaged G-Town...

[JeffreyWilliamson]

Not that you'd hear it from any other news outlet north of Houston:

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=4907d8eb312e8bac

GALVESTON — Galveston’s public school district has asked 182 employees, including 100 teachers, to resign so it can avoid layoffs as hurricane recovery costs mount and revenue dwindles.

Employees who resign by March 6 will receive a portion of their salaries. Those with five years or less with district will get 1 percent of their annual salary; those with more than 20 years will get 10 percent, district officials said.

“We are trying to make this as least painful as possible,” Superintendent Lynne Cleveland said.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Wow ...

I have no words.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. 1% of annual salary

For teachers making, say, $20,000 a year, that means they'd get a whopping $200

[JeffreyWilliamson]

5. That's exactly what I caught...

Shocking. That'll really help...

[Jane Austin]

3. “We are trying to make this as least painful as possible,”

Superintendent Lynne Cleveland said.

Good grief. Their superintendent doesn't know how to say "painless"?

Yikes.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Lynne Cleveland and Sarah Palin must have gone to the same school.

[northofdenali]

6. Same church, anyway.

Not sure school would have done either of them much good.....