From: Mt. Lebanon School District Athletics <noreply@mtlsd.net>
Date: Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:42 AM
Subject: Winter Sports
To: Mt. Lebanon Parent/Guardian
Dear Parent/Guardian and Student Athlete,
We are excited to announce that we are continuing to offer the convenience of online registration for our athletic programs through partner company, FamilyID (www.familyid.com).
FamilyID is a secure registration platform that provides you with an easy, user-friendly way to register for our programs, and helps us to be more administratively efficient and environmentally responsible. When you register through FamilyID, you enter your information once for multiple uses, multiple kids and multiple programs.
All district athletic forms will now be entered electronically with the exception of the physical and health history form. Those forms will still need to be filled out by the parent and signed by a physician. Please remember that the physical form needs to be signed after May 31, 2014 to be eligible to participate in athletics during the 2014-15 school year. These forms can be found on the district web site at www.mtlsd.net. Click on athletics and then forms on the left hand side of the page. When completed, the forms should be turned in to the nurse’s office at the school your son or daughter attends.
As you are aware, the district has instituted a new Pay for Participation fee this year. You will also be able to pay this fee through this site as well.
Please be aware that there are sections of the registration form that require both a parent/guardian and student athlete to respond so please plan accordingly when doing the registration.
Many of our families have already used this system. I hope that your experience was a good one and the feedback we have received in the office has been positive!! The on-line registration process for Winter Sports will be available on October 7, 2014! You can begin your registration by clicking on this link https://www.familyid.com/mt-lebanon-high-school and following these steps:
1. Click on the link for the season’s registration form. Scroll to bottom of page and click on Sign up as a Family or Individual. If you are a returning user, you can just put in your email and password at the top of the page.
2. Sign up for your secure FamilyID account by entering your family name, email address and password. You will receive an email with a link to confirm your new account. (If you don’t see the email, check your spam or junk folders)
3. Click on the link in your email confirmation and then fill out the information requested on the registration form.
You can always find the school landing page by clicking “Find Programs” in the top blue banner, searching Mt. Lebanon, and clicking on the school link.
If you need assistance, call FamilyID at 888-800-5583 X1 from 8:00 AM to 9 PM. Support is available 7 days a week and messages will be returned promptly.
It is our hope that this new system will make it easier on our families to register for our athletic programs. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the athletic office at 412-344-2008.
Sincerely,
John Grogan
Athletic Director
Players participating in the FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 have filed this lawsuit.
There are some new studies cited in sections 29, 30, 31, and 32. Interesting reading.
16 comments:
When do they institute the PAYP (Pay As You Pee) fee.
Those new restrooms are expensive.
Hey, they're for the kids!
Then there will be the PAYL (Pay As You Lunch) fee to cover those Capital Improvement Lunch Tables & Chairs in the HS Cafeteria.
We could've let the kids eat sitting on the floor but everyone thought sitting at a table would make lunch more pleasant "for the kids."
First it was Lebowitz who proclaimed being excited at most every happening in the district - now it';s Grogan as well. Are you all excited too?
This fee for athletic participation is disgusting! The district is once again adding a tax to the parents for sports participation. When will these taxes ever end!!! The administrators desperately need a salary cut. These fees are not for the kids, it's for high salaries! Enough already!!!!
Everything goes down so much easier when you tell people you're excited about it in Mt. Lebanon.
It almost seems like people here are hypnotized by the sound of the phrase to smile and clap with glee.
'Hey folks, we're excited to announce we'll be raising your taxes another 2 mills and adding several more monthly fees!"
"Thank you, thank you, great leader!!!"
While Mr. Grogan is excited by the ability to make it so much easier to collect and track the new athletic fees and the board has hired a hard-line negotiator (tsk, tsk) for the teachers early-bird contract here's a couple of interesting articles that will make your day.
"The American Middle Class Hasn't Gotten A Raise In 15 Years"
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-american-middle-class-hasnt-gotten-a-raise-in-15-years/
And
"Consol Energy cutting retiree health benefits, phasing out pension"
http://triblive.com/mobile/6893979-96/employees-health-benefits
"Consol joins companies such as Alcoa, Sears, IBM and Walgreens that have recently cut benefits for retirees or active workers, or switched them to health insurance exchanges. The percentage of large businesses offering retiree health coverage dropped to 28 percent last year from 66 percent in 1988, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust survey.
Companies have used generous health care and retirement benefits to attract workers but are assessing whether it makes financial sense. Many have eliminated traditional pensions in favor of a 401(k) or hybrid plan — a decades-long trend. They are making similar moves with health insurance because of rising costs for medical coverage and changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act. Benefits have become an easy target to reduce expenses and grow profits. “It just follows the trend of big corporations, because having retiree liability on the books is a tremendous strain on the balance sheet,” said health care analyst James McTiernan, area vice president at Gallagher Benefits Services, Downtown."
Sing while you slave Lebo... it's for the kids!!!
Insert handy comment template here.
Candidate for Governor Tom Wolf claims 27,000 teachers were laid off under the Corbett administration.
That may or not be true, but what is true is a good percentage of those people were pretty good teachers and probably would love to teach in Lebo.
It is a buyers market, school board.
Sorry for the cross post. Tonight's Turf Board meeting has been canceled. I guess there is nothing left to talk about.
This is an important notice from LeboALERT.
The Mt. Lebanon Sports Advisory Board meeting scheduled for October 2, 2014 is
canceled. For the complete meeting schedule please view our website.
Elaine
It's OK to cross post Elaine, it is all related. See following.
"FamilyID is a secure registration platform that provides you with an easy, user-friendly way to register for our programs, and helps us to be more administratively efficient and environmentally responsible."
"Administratively efficient and environmentally responsible." That is rich from a group that has spent $4 million on change orders and [start laughing loudly here] "capital improvements." from a group that has an $85,000/year Capital Campaign Chairperson that won't be on the job from Oct-Jan and now needs a $300/day substitute for a fundraiser that can't give us an accounting on monies spent or raised.
Then after you think you can't laugh one bit more... these people are now going to claim they are "environmentally responsible" after signing up to maintain the toxic turf at Wildcat/Middle fields.
What planet do there people live on? Does 11:33 really believe we have no right to mock them?
What's with the term " multiple kids"?
Aren't these athletes, students or student athletes?
Another example the distict is void of respect.
6:31 because "kids" tugs at the emotions a little bit more than students or young adults.
Just remember a fee is just a synonym for a tax.
8:57 P M, You can be sure the school board will buy the teachers' union with their new contract.
Oh no 10:02, you've got it all wrong.
We've got a hard-as-nails negotiator looking out for our interest.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Thanks for the update on the Rock Pile.
A few questions: are there pay to participate fees for all activities offered by the MTLSD or just sports and marching band?
Will there be a new permit submitted to the DEP for the Rock Pile turf or will the contractors just start on the turf whenever they want?
PS My child's middle school teacher made each classroom student bring in 1-2 supplies for her class -- not for him -- but for the class and not a tissue box. We had to make a special trip to Staples to get what she wanted. Maybe he just needs to give her a tip -- is this the new normal for MTLSD? Do we need to tip the teachers because their supply funds have been cut back to support turf and raises?
"A 2012 study conducted by the Heritage Foundation found that workers who switched from private employment to teaching most often took an hourly pay increase, while most of those who left teaching for the private sector took pay decreases. More specifically, a few years back, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Compensation Survey numbers, the Manhattan Institute looked at the hourly pay of public school teachers in the top 66 metropolitan areas in the country. It found that teachers pulled in around $34.06 per hour. Journalists, who have vital job of protecting American democracy, earned 24 percent less. Architects, 11 percent less. Psychologists, 9 percent. Chemists, 5 percent.
It’s also worth asking what an average auto mechanic –a person that CAP and Vox intimates is undeserving of a teacher-level compensation – might be willing to give up for the security of tenure? What would a guaranteed pension and a lifetime of health care coverage be worth to a plumber? Considering how hard unions fight to keep these things, I imagine they’re worth quite a bit."
http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/24/are-teachers-underpaid-lets-find-out/
Now then, if the above information is correction how does the MTLSD justify paying a Campaign Chairperson $80,000/yr and their part-time temporary substitute $300/day?
But our lovely school board will continue to levy more fees for sports, labs, advance placement classes, books, and student parking while maintaining their position that Harrisburg and local property aren't enough to sustain satisfy them.
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