What is happening right now is absolutely ridiculous but the schools have been asking for it for two decades by not giving these people raises.I would hate to be a senior student athlete caught in the middle of this.What Louisiana principals are saying is basically that any person off the street can come in and do a better job than a licensed official.That's insulting to me and I hope to all of us.The Louisiana principals value their teachers as professionals so why not us? I know as an HS official I don't officiate for the money however I do expect to be reasonably compensated for my afternoons work.Those rates at least to me do not qualify as reasonably compensated to me
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Derryl Trujillo
Official Scorekeeper-Woodcrest Christian High School Basketball
Referee-Inland Volleyball Officials Association
The golfing volleyball ref and official scorekeeper
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