Well, well, well. How do you feel about these apples, beleagured Lower Merion Township Taxpayers? How do you like paying again, and again, and again for retired school personnel to guest star after retirement?

The definition of retired is:

Withdrawn from one's occupation, business, or office; having finished one's active working life.

The definition of retired when it comes to Lower Merion School District:

More, more, more

More, more, more is costing taxpayers money. If Lower Merion School Districts can't find new staff when it needs to, then maybe there is a problem no one is talking about?

Anyway, this school district wastes a lot of money because it is spending OPM (Other Peoples' Money) or your tax dollars. This article is well worth reading:

Posted on Mon, Sep. 15, 2008
Retired Pa. principals' double dipping leads to bill
By Dan Hardy
Inquirer Staff Writer

Norton "Nort" Seaman says he thought his retirement in 1998 as principal of Harriton High School in the Lower Merion School District was the end of an education career of more than 30 years.
It wasn't.

Since the fall of 2002, Seaman, now 70, has returned to work as an interim principal or assistant principal seven times in three school districts, twice for a whole school year, while collecting his $57,136 annual state pension.

To hire him, districts had to declare an emergency: that not filling the vacancies would have caused "a serious impairment of service to the public."

In his latest stint at Lower Merion High School, Seaman was paid $170,800 for a year, and the district ended up promoting an assistant principal to the job. Having Seaman there as a mentor prepared the successor, district spokesman Douglas Young said. In all, Seaman has been paid more than $350,000, while collecting a pension from the state Public School Employees' Retirement System (PSERS).

...Critics say school districts often misuse the law, putting a strain on the pension system. Districts like to hire retirees because they don't have to pay into the pension system for them and often don't pay other benefits, either.

"It clearly appears to be double-dipping," said State Rep. Karen Beyer (R., Lehigh), who introduced legislation in May to limit the practice. "It puts a stress on the pension plan. These are taxpayer dollars....Seaman's post-retirement work history provides an insight into how the practice works.