How nice and well deserved, I do agree, because Novelis does a lot for the community.

Now how does the Oswego City School District show its appreciation to Novelis as the "friend of education"? It raises their property tax bills each and every year in order to give a 22% raise to the overpaid, underworked, lazy, greedy OCTA pigs. Novelis employees do not get anywhere near a 22% raise.

Most of the employees of Novelis work very hard at their jobs, pulling in 12 hour shifts. On the other hand, most of the OCTApussies do not do much work at all, showing dismal results in student progress. OCTA has a 7 hour work day, of which they take 3 hours of paid breaks and lunches. They have a 180 day work year of which they have 15 sick or vacation days. Novelis employees have to work on holidays, have to work during the summer, do not get a "February break" or a "spring break" or a "Christmas break." Unlike Oswego teachers, they work all year round, work all day long, produce results and do their job correctly and yet they get paid a lot less, partially because the plant has to pay hundreds upon thousands for outrageous property tax levels.

In 2002 the Oswego Alcan/Novelis plant was on the brink of closure because of the high county and school taxes. But dimwits like Pauline McCarthy and Maggie Tiballi continued to raise the salaries of the OCTApussies and these 2 idiotic women along with their heroes Eastwood and Fischer were bound and determined to raise the tax rate as high as they possibly could. They think that local taxpayers and businesses should be relegated to paying all of their income to the school district. Also because of the fact that most of the OCTA staff is completely incompetent, any Novelis employee who sends their children to school in the OCSD, is surely not getting what they are paying for.

Perhaps instead of recognizing Novelis with an award, the school district could help them out by decreasing taxes for all taxpayers in the community and stopping all wasteful spending. Demanding accountability from all of the lazy and underperforming teachers, cutting OCTA salaries by 10-15%, forcing them to teach 8 of the 9 class periods instead of 5 of the 9, and forcing them to produce or get the hell off of the payroll. I think Novelis and its local employees would appreciate that a hell of a lot more than a certificate.

The school budget is about $20 million higher than it needs to be, however, when we continue to elect the worlds most unintelligent, imbecilic and just plain stupid people to the school board like McCarthy, Doug Buske, Dave White, Tiballi, Veronica Baker, Maryanne Schultz, Sean Madden, Sally Nettles and Fred Maxon, the complete and utter failure of the Oswego City School District should not come as a surprise at all.