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| Teachers Boycott Back-to-School Night, Infuriating Parents |
| posted by: Colin | September 20, 2010, 09:50 PM |
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Parents, you took time out of your busy day to come to your child's school, to get involved, to learn about what they are learning, and to meet their teacher. But what if the teachers don't even bother to show up? Comments (2)
Seems bad, but... written by Deb in Maine, September 21, 2010
I would personally just bite the bullet and show up...but that's who I am as a worker and an individual. I do understand why this group of teachers did this. When you're working for three years with no contract, that's a de facto vote of no confidence in your skills as professionals by the district. Why should you want to stay for what amounts to a midweek 12+ hour day where you have to stay and play nicey nice when the district doesn't think you're worth enough to pay even a cost of living raise?
Also, the parents--the people in the community--don't get to vote on teacher salaries. That's up to the district's administration. Possibly the teachers don't need the support of the community in order to get a raise. Also, having worked for five years in a district where taxpayers are overwhelmingly in favor of giving us no raises I speak from experience when I say that any extra time you give, any long days you put in are not seen as a reason to give you a raise. They are often conveniently forgotten.
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Imagine you show up at Starbucks at 5:00am and there was no one there to open the door.
Well, you have a choice as to whether or not you will return to the store.
With the school, like the Post Office, like the DMV, like the IRS, you have no choice but to put up with their garbage.
Get used to it, because teacher salaries are going down, and no one, not even an OUTSTANDING TEACHER, not even an outstanding PRIVATE SECTOR employee, work well under those circumstances.