Do you know how many kids would be better served by a few great teachers and a lot of AI own-pace learning ? Dumping BS social indoctrination and one hell of a lot of salary .....and future pension obligations ?
I don't know..is it? Everyone live in the district? No..they don't.
Most do. I agree.
I'm on board with the administrators making too much but not sure I can agree on teachers. Although, for fairness, it should be noted that most administrators work 11ish months of the year.
I've often said today, one of the best work skills you can have is the ability to manage and motivate staff. Your administrator / managers MUST be compensated well. Most people do not want to manage others because in general, they are pains in the butt. Teachers especially tough because they union protected. Teacher's contracts are rigid and negotiated to levels based on time teaching, very little to do with what kind of teacher they are.
I'm not necessarily against Admin being compensated well. Its more the fact that when money is tight the district goes begging to the teacher's union and the admin never take a pay cut. I remember our teacher's union agreeing to a pay freeze and unpaid furlough days to try to help the district get through a difficult financial time. The admin each got pay raises within months.
Admins are not union and can negotiate individually. Imagine a system where teachers could negotiate individually, the BEST teachers would likely make more, and you could easily move on from poor ones and not just drag them along because in the union. Again, the admin has to manage the staff, like I said a very underestimated skill these days.
Teachers unions pick the school boards and the superintendent. It's a closed system ensuring they get what they want.
You lost me here. How do the unions pick the BOE?
Through the voting process. I wasn’t clear. Sorry
I don't like using children, but what crime was committed?
You're delusional.
I could see the unions having some influence in BOE elections IF most of the teachers and staff lived in the district they work in. I'd guess well over half of the teachers in my district don't. Or maybe they simply wield more political influence in larger blue city districts? It doesn't work that way in my smaller district.
With the voting block alone they have great influence. 140 people in our district…I could see the unions having some influence in BOE elections IF most of the teachers and staff lived in the district they work in. I'd guess well over half of the teachers in my district don't. Or maybe they simply wield more political influence in larger blue city districts? It doesn't work that way in my smaller district.
I dunno, maybe I should have reached out for an endorsement when I ran for office. I think I won with our voters based on my good looks.
As far as hiring superintendents, that's the exclusive province and decision of the BOE. The local union is certainly free to offer input to the board on their preference, just like any other party with a stake in the process, but that's it.
Why, is writing poetry more important than good health?
I sure hope you aren’t being serious.
One is essential for a long and productive life, the other is not.
Some unions are like that. Phys Ed teachers are like union construction workers with boobs. Typically a lesser value, with the same price tag.
There were some really terrific hybrid tech industrial arts programs coming on line in the '90's. My local district had the son of a retired shop teacher get hired - Szabo, I think - and he had started something great. "The bitches" eventually gutted and destroyed it.
I took 2 "Shop" classes as electives in HS. I loved them. Teacher could tell I knew my stuff so would consistently give me a 100 for the day and have we work on something else for him.
Highly unethical don't you think?
Not really, no. Impractical, yes.Highly unethical don't you think?
I am not a language teacher, but I can recognize an incomplete sentence when i see one.
In my precinct there really weren't many meaningful races at hand. Many of the county positions were running un-opposed on the Republican side. Trump is already in. Had to narrow down a few Commissioner races and a county-wide operating levy for services and the Moreno/Dolan/Larose contest.
