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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: JohnM who wrote (2200)6/16/2003 7:33:31 PM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (1) of 793917
 
I agree with the article.

After 18mos of negotiations, a local high school board & the teachers union finally signed a new contract.
The stumbling block was the teachers insistence that their retirement medical benefits should not be capped.
The board refused to sign unless the benefits were capped. The teachers walked out twice in the 18mos. The 1st time they were ordered back to school by a judge. The 2nd strike lasted only 3 days and the day before it was scheduled to start, the students as a protest to the threatened strike, walked out of school during the 1st period of the day. Finally, both teachers & school board were directed to meet at the County Courthouse until a decision was reached. In the meantime, the school board members were re-elected and a few days later the teachers agreed to capped retirement medical benefits. Due to the strikes students will not complete their required number of annual school days until the last day of June. The teachers main concern was fulfilling the state mandated number of school days & never mentioned whether there was time to effectively teach the curriculum.

I have personally spoken to some of the teachers, and they complain that the present board does not provide updated text books and requires large classes. My question to them was to ask why they did not strike in order to pressure the board to correct those problems instead of the unlimited retirement medical benefit. Not one teacher would admit that they are only willing to take strike action for personal financial gain. Alas, that seems to be the case.

As far as the articles statement that teaching is a female dominated profession, that situation seems to be changing here. I've noticed the numbers are starting to approach 50/50.
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