When asked how she would view a freeze extension, Mrs. Ramona Noland, a remedial skills teacher at the Tinton Falls Elementary School in New Shrewsbury and a veteran of 14 years as a teacher, is working under last year's salary. He received his raise a week before the controls started. Noland, himself a former teacher, was lucky, he said, and got in right under the freeze wire. 'Shame' Is cited Kenneth Noland, principal the past eight years at the Atlantic Elementary School In Colts Neck Township, commented it was a "shame" that teachers had spent the time and effort to negotiate salary contracts only to find those endeavors were fruitless. Even administrators, or at least one of them, agreed with the teachers on the issue. He expressed hope, however, teachers would be victorious hi their court suit since, be said, a similar suit filed in a Louisiana Court was settled hi favor of that state's teachers. Patterson suggested an educator should have been appointed a member of the federal wagefreeze board. A past president of the 3,500 member Monmouth County Education Association, Mr. Patterson, a Long Branch resident and a former social studies.teacher at Rumson-Fair Haven High School, agreed contracts finalized before the freeze should be honored. "I'm still getting the same check I got last year and we signed that contract last April," complained Mr. Koz- loski, an eighth grade teacher in Howell Township and a Freehold borough councilman. The freeze Is wrong, period, according to Walter J. "A lot of other people could probably be affected less by!he freeze than teachers have been," Mrs. Ramona Noland four years, said she enjoyed teaching because she liked working with young people but also felt teachers should be well compensated for the effort they put into their jobs. Racz, a Colts Neck Township resident and a teacher John W. The teachers will not stand for it." Mrs. Nancy Racz an English teacher at Freehold Regional High School. "Teachers always end up getting discriminated against, especially concerning wages," declared Mrs. And Shore area teachers queried at random here yesterday stressed they were right in step with the NJEA stand. Nancy Bacz Kenneth Noland nied their rights in not being able to receive salaries that were negotiated for and agreed upon last Spring, months before the freeze was imposed. Suit Is Brought Meanwhile the state association, in conjunction with the National Education Association, is battling the present freeze via a federal court suit seeking to invalidate the wage curbs as they pertain to teachers, on the grounds that "maladministration has deprived teachers of due process under the fifth amendment." New Jersey teachers obviously do feel they have been de- Mrs. Baldwin, Wall Township, chairman of NJEA's Pension Policy Committee, said using current salary levels instead of higher ones scheduled before the freeze would per-, manently reduce the pensions of retiring teachers, since tbeir retirement allowance is a percentage of the average salary for the highest three earning years. Equally frigid in its feelings toward the freeze is the NJEA, whose policy making delegate assembly voted yesterday to seek federal legislation to permit still-frozen salaries to be used in computing pension allowances for retiring teachers. That interest and solidarity abounded here yesterday at the start of the annual New Jersey Education Association convention, spurred on by reports that the federal wage freeze review board appointed by President Nixon is considering extending the freeze into January. KRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1971 FINAL EDITION 28 PAGES SEE STORY BELOW TEN CENTS Freeze Extension Fear Fires Up Teachers ByBETTESPERO Related Stories, ATLANTIC CITY New Jersey teachers, who have given the federal wage freeze the cold shoulder ever since its inception, are apparently ready to boll over if the freeze is extended Into The wage freeze is one issue that has aroused intense interest and almost ironbound solidarity among teachers throughout the Garden State. Clear and cool tonight THEDAILY } Red Bank, Freehold ~T~ Long Branch J Monmonth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper RED BANK, NJ. 93 Sunny and Cool Mostly sonny and cool today, tomorrow and again on Sonday.
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