{"id":2372,"date":"2016-07-08T17:16:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T21:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2016-07-08T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T00:40:05","slug":"maxine-householder-calls-the-police-on-her-fellow-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Maxine Householder Calls the Police on Her Fellow Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t exactly solidarity forever.<\/p>\n<p>Maxine Householder, a public school teacher at Harper\u2019s Ferry Elementary School, called the police on her fellow public school teachers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zy0jykisuTA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This morning, the teachers were at her husband\u2019s place of business &#8212; Air-Row Sheet Metal at Martinsburg Airport to apply for summer employment.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Maxine Householder\u2019s husband, West Virginia Delegate Eric Householder (R-Berkeley County), encouraged West Virginia public school teachers to get part-time summer jobs to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>In response, seven public school teachers arrived to apply for a job at Air-Row Sheet Metal.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Householder was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the teachers were greeted by his wife Maxine.<\/p>\n<p>Maxine Householder informed the teachers that the only job available was for an HVAC mechanic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JmaFM_xP_gs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have an HVAC license, then you can apply for the job,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you have a HVAC license, I will give you an application. Other than that, you can leave. It\u2019s private property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teachers were in no mood for civil disobedience and got ready to leave.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t take Maxine Householder more than 20 seconds to pick up her cell phone and call the Martinsburg Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have been asked to leave, I\u2019m calling the police now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She calls the police and says &#8212; \u201cThere are people on my property. I have asked them to leave and they are not leaving. They are also taping me without my permission.&#8221; (Somebody from Householder\u2019s business was taping the teachers without their permission either, but that didn\u2019t seem to bother Maxine Householder. She didn\u2019t mention that to the police.)<\/p>\n<p>The police were seen racing to the scene of the &#8220;crime&#8221; &#8212; but everyone was gone by the time the police got there.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher on teacher confrontation at Martinsburg Airport was triggered last December when Gina Pratt, a public school teacher at Back Creek Elementary School in Berkeley County, <a href=\"http:\/\/wvpress.org\/news\/wv-lawmaker-teacher-argue-online-peia-cuts\/\">got into a Twitter exchange with Eric Householder.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pratt encouraged Householder to put additional funding into the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) &#8212; the public employees health insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p>Householder responded &#8212; \u201cand where do you think the additional funding should come from?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pratt suggested &#8212; \u201cup the cigarette tax, maybe?\u201d (Last month, the West Virginia Legislature finally did increase the cigarette tax by 65 cents a pack, but Householder voted against it.)<\/p>\n<p>Pratt asked Householder where she would be able to find the additional money to cover the increasing costs of her health insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe working summer school?\u201d Householder asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr maybe reduce retirement contribution?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cut your internet at home?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr find part-time employment in the summer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teachers decided to take up Householder on his offer apply for a job at his business at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The action was organized by Eastern Panhandle Central Labor Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt that the Twitter exchange was insulting to that particular teacher, demeaning to the profession in general, and showed a lack of empathy and support on the part of Delegate Householder,\u201d said Jill Jones of the Labor Council. Jones is a staff representative for the American Federation of Teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said that when she advertised the event through social media, she received \u201ccountless responses from teachers &#8212; saying &#8212; I support what you are doing, I would love to be there but I\u2019m working my second job on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers should get salaries that support them year around,\u201d Jones said. \u201cIt should be a livable salary. They should live comfortably in the middle class. Teachers should not be placed in a position where they are required to work second and third jobs. And it\u2019s not just the summer. The vast majority of teachers are working during the school year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A starting teacher salary in West Virginia is around $31,000 a year. In Maryland and Virginia it\u2019s $6,000 to $9,000 more a year starting out, Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the teachers at the event was Tony McDonald, a teacher at Warm Springs Middle School in Berkeley Springs. His wife is also a public school teacher.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald said he thought that Householder\u2019s Twitter exchange with Pratt was \u201cdisrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tony McDonald has three jobs. His wife has two jobs. And they are raising two children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t get into teaching because we make great money,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cWe are told our benefits are going to be there for us. But because of the cuts, our benefits are making our pay less than what it was to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t exactly solidarity forever. Maxine Householder, a public school teacher at Harper\u2019s Ferry Elementary School, called the police on her fellow public school teachers. 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