Lilly
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
So my teachers have been working without a contract for a year. Now is the time, they feel, to start "renegotiating." Exposition: The last superintendant we had put us $6+ million in debt, and we just recovered last year. So yeah, we don't really have money to negotiate with. Contract after contract is drawn up and shot down. That's fine with me. Good for the teachers, they need to be paid with better wages. My problem comes in here in the teacher's mentality that they won't get anything done until parental calls are put into the school board. Ok so that's not a bad plan. Their idea to get parents' attention? Work to contract. Meaning, no overtime, no taking papers home to grade them. And for me, now biology reviews on the weekends, meaning my entire class wasted a year because we're all going to fail the test without those reviews. They also want to boycot graduation. Which is slightly less important academically, but far more important emotionally. The teachers whom I have spent the past 4 years of my life with will not be there to see me graduate.
Ok, so that was more of a rant than a post. But my question here is, is it right for the teacher's union to use the students as a tool?
No. It just isn't. It's disrespectful to the students. It also is just wrong to manipulate the learning of 1300 students in order to get a better contract.
Ok, so that was more of a rant than a post. But my question here is, is it right for the teacher's union to use the students as a tool?
No. It just isn't. It's disrespectful to the students. It also is just wrong to manipulate the learning of 1300 students in order to get a better contract.