Group of California Elementary School Employees Win Lottery… Again
- Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:45pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(The Blaze/AP) A group of employees at a California school district who won a $12 million lotto prize last year has done it again and now stands to collect another pot worth more than a quarter of a million dollars.
State lottery officials announced Friday that the same Montebello Unified School District workers who won $12 million last February have won a MEGA Millions prize worth $262,743.
The group, which now consists of 16 members, has been playing together for over two years and is a mixture of part- and full-time clerical workers, and work at Bandini elementary in Commerce, California.
The winning ticket was sold at Arrow Liquor in Commerce. The MEGA Millions draw was Dec. 2, and the group claimed its winnings Friday.
KABC reports that the group used some of their previous winnings to purchase a new sound system for their school, and plan to spend some more of the new winnings on the school as well.
The California Lottery is a state-level fundraiser for public education, and KABC reports that lottery players have contributed more than $23 billion to education since it first started in 1985.
The Montebello school employees tell KABC that they’ll continue to play, as luck has clearly been on their side.
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teebubba
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:51pmThis is not remarkable. They only won a big jackpot once.
Report Post »Hzurdaddy
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:44am“The California Lottery is a state-level fundraiser for public education”
Yes, we can see that!!
Report Post »rchick
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:50pm@gosutag
“Everyday is an adjective. Every day is a noun. Very simple. Discussing their percentages of use is a dumb way to approach explaining its uses.”
Actually, “every” is an adjective. “Day” is a noun. If you‘re correcting someone’s grammar, you want to get it right or you lose your credibility.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:23pmWhat are the chances of winning twice pretty slim.. I smell a skunk..
Report Post »Mastermagi
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 11:56am@ william.wadsworth
You wrote, “Teachers do a lot more work than the corporate executive and make a fraction of the amount that they get paid. My mom is a teacher (who is a Republican) and I see it everyday.”
My husband is a corporate executive who works 60-80 hours per week, usually 52 weeks a year. I talked him into taking two weeks of vacation last year, so he worked a minimum of 3,000 hours during 2011. How many hours did your hard-working mother work? Given that she worked months less, how many hours did she work?
Does my husband make more money than your mother? Undoubtedly, and rightfully so. He employs many hundreds of people. She, on the other hand, isn’t even a good enough educator to teach her own child about commas, or that “everyday” is actually two words – every day – at least 70% of the time. Is she helping or hurting her community?
If it sounds as though I am against teachers, it’s true. The faculty in my child’s school are so bad they engage in academic malpractice. My spouse is vehemently against homeschooling, so my child suffers by having to be taught (retaught) by me after putting in seven hours at the public school.
Report Post »gosutag
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 2:22pmEveryday is an adjective. Every day is a noun. Very simple. Discussing their percentages of use is a dumb way to approach explaining its uses.
Report Post »Mastermagi
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 3:00pmgosutag, I wasn’t trying to explain its uses. My intent was to point out to another poster, one who was whining about teacher pay versus executive pay, why said teacher didn’t deserve more than she received. I seldom point out the grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors of others. We all make mistakes. When one is a teacher, however, or a teacher’s progeny, that person is held to a higher standard.
Don’t you agree?
Report Post »proud2bmom
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:16pmGood teachers work hard. My mom is one of those and so ar some of my friends. However, they don’t put in anywhere close to the number of hours corporate executives do. My husband is one of those and works 60+ hours a week. We’ve had three vacations in 17 years, not because he doesn‘t have vacation days but because he has so much work to do he can’t take time off. It has only gotten worse as they have had to downsize and spread out the same amount of work over fewer employees.
He’s also another one of those evil executives who gets a bonus. What the general public fails to realize is that a portion of the compensation is considered a “bonus” so that the executive’s salaries can be cut at any given time by reducing the “bonus”. When the recession first hit we took a 50% pay cut due to that wonderful perk. This year might be the same because there have been so many insurance claims due to weather. Not only do teachers not ever have to face an actual cut in pay, they receive an automatic annual “cost of living” raise. Our school district touted their cost-cutting “pay freeze” for the teachers. I looked into it and found what they considered a freeze was actually a freeze at the percentage it would continue to go up each year.
There are good teachers and bad teachers. There are good corporate executives and bad ones. The big difference is that with a corporation, the employees worked to create the wealth they earn. Teachers collect their money fro
Report Post »Mastermagi
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 5:00pm@ Poud2bmom
I agree that there are good and bad teachers. Our daughter attended school in two states before graduating in this state. The school she attended in a small district outside of Joplin, Mo (Carl Junction), had a good curriculum, and good teachers. The ones in this state (Tennessee, though I won’t say what part) are horrible. They simply don’t have the knowledge to teach effectively. As to curriculum, forget it.
Good teachers may work hard when they work, but work only a fraction of the time an executive does. For that matter, they work fewer hours than anyone else I know. I am tired of hearing them complain about their rate of pay, especially when one looks at the outcome.
Report Post »Pablo
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:26amWhy does an elementary school have 16 clerical workers?
Report Post »Gorp
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:38pmBecause there are probably 100 kids those 16 have to cleric for. You don’t want them to work too hard do you?
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 9:14amI don’t know. Twice in a matter of a year. Sounds fishy to me.
Report Post »Moe1138
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 7:21amThere are those of us here in the PRK, Peoples Republik of Kalifornia, that remember the first televised lottery draw. A woman was calling the numbers as they would drop and that number would then be added to the screen below. Only the last number was on screen before she called it.
Report Post »Good thing the lotteries aren’t rigged.
TomFerrari
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:47am“contributed more then 23Billion to education”
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REALLY?
Then they need to check their facts. This is simply a FALSE CLAIM.
Most states CLAIM it is for education, in order to get it legalized.
BUT, then they GUT the educational budget that was being provided by the general funds, and pay it solely out of their gambling revenues. LITERALLY, gambling on our children’s education!!
eg:
- Pre-lotto budget of 2 billion/yr (entirely out of general funds)
- Lotto gets passed
- Lotto revenues of 1 billion per year
- POST-lotto budget of 2 billion/yr (1billion from lotto, 1 from general funds)
*****
NET EFFECT: THEY HAVE $1BILLION MORE IN GENERAL FUND – NOT IN EDUCATIONAL FUND
*****
What the lotto DOES, is, free up BILLIONS for the state legislature to give away to their buddies…
LIKE THE TEACHER’S UNIONS, who are already lining their pockets thanks to this lotto SCAM !
proud2bmom
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 4:08pmYou nailed it on the head.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:55pmWhy does the government demonize the “rich”
And then sponsor a lottery that preys on the lower and middle classes, with the goal of creating more “rich” to demonize?
Report Post »dobbiedo
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:27amSo it seems
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:41pmRigged.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:50pmI am more alarmed that the ticket was bought at a liquor store; was this before, during or after school?
Well after the government takes the 40% there won’t be much to distribute.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:13pmWhich one has the proverbial horseshoe stuck up their . . .? Wish I did.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:23pmAt least they’re not Marxist teachers that already grossly overpaid – especially in Cali. Now, they should be able to enjoy a retirement equivalent to public sector workers in that state.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:14pm@hauschild
“At least they’re not Marxist teachers that already grossly overpaid”
LOL. Wanna bet???
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 11:36pmAt least they put some of it back into their school.
Report Post »william.wadsworth
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 12:11amTeachers do a lot more work than the corporate executive and make a fraction of the amount that they get paid. My mom is a teacher (who is a Republican) and I see it everyday.
Report Post »SchoolEmployee
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 11:24amClerical workers are part of the Public Employee Retirement System, (PERS). Their retirement plan is better than the STRS plan the teachers are in. They also are in the social security system. They had a pretty good retirement before the lotto win.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 6:38pmWho cares what political party your mother joined? Was that just tossed in to give your statement an “aire of authenticity”?
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:19pmThere was a case in the last few years where one guy didn’t play one week, though he was usually part of their group, and they won, a big one. If that guy didn’t kill himself it is amazing. And last I heard they weren’t going to share it with him. Ouch. At least if all of them quit their job he wouldn’t have to see them everyday, suffering on his own. Why did these people keep working, in clerical jobs? Oh yeah, win the lottery and keep working, sweeping floors, doing whatever, not. Maybe volunteer somewhere and use the money but it shows a rather small mind to feel the need to keep working a menial or regular job after winning millions of dollars.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:25pmHeck from what I have read about a lot of the winners, they are more likely to kill themselves than the guy who still has to get up and go to work every day. Except for me of course,,, I could handle it LOL!
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 5:07pmYes, I’ve heard about that as well, suddenly not having to work for a living sort of makes people crazy. I can see that. Trying to get by grounds us. Think also about when you go out to eat, you moderate what you order due to the cost, what if every time you went into a restaurant you could order literally anything you want, price is no object. You would need to pay for a personal trainer to try to keep the weight off.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:55pmlightening strikeing twice good for them…
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:52pmIt seems that the “redneck retirement plan” does work for some people.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:14pmSome hard-working people believe that a red neck is an honorable thing. I am one.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:49pmI love it: Educators… who believe in… LUCK… not Skill, Knowledge, nor Reasoning and Formulation!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 4:11pmWe all nedd some LUCK these days!
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