For the children? That's A Load Of Horseshit
by Bob Walsh
Both
the teachers and the non-teaching staff of the Sacramento Unified
School District have voted to strike this coming Wednesday. If the
strike occurs the district is not going to even pretend to be able to
open schools with subs or administrators and will just shut down. Kind
of like they have been for the last two years.
The
unions say they need more staff. They also assert the district is
cutting their pay significantly. Both appear to be more-or-less true.
The district is saying they can't offer any further incentives until the
unions accept the basic contract. Clearly the unions are not
interested in buying a pig in a poke.
Various
school parents groups are attempting to set up "child care collectives"
so that somebody reliable (?) will be watching their crumb snatchers
while they go to work to earn a living.
Some parents are also working at a way to transfer their children to other school districts.
This
is one of those situations where there is plenty of right, and plenty
of blame, on all sides. That being said I doubt very much that NO side
is working very much for the benefit of the children. The union wants
more money and more goodies for it's members, and more members to
extract dues from. The administration wants more money for the schools,
more money and less work for administrators and parents and students
who are placid and compliant. Looks like neither side is getting what
they want any time soon. Some of the parents just want their kids to
get a decent education. Others want the kids the hell out of the house
for a few weeks so they can get back to work, assuming they have jobs
after the epidemic.
Looks like nobody is going to get what they want, at least for now.
1 comment:
The Clear Creek Independence School District is one of the fastest growing in the state. It has high scores in scholastics and athletics. In was founded in League City and when NASA arrived in the area along with the Nasa contractors it has grown substantially. Teacher salaries are above average with no unions. It contracts with the Galveston County Sheriff's Office for school resource trained fulltime deputies on all 16 campuses. Texas pays for attendance and CCISD allows students with hardships from other school districts to enroll. IMHO, it doesn't take much of a hardship especially when $ talks.
On a side note, in 1959 I began Kindergarten on N. Kansas St. in League City, population 5000. It is 120,000 today. My teacher lived across the street in a house furnished by CCISD. My Kindergarten building is now a museum. Today, my daughter is an administrator for CCISD.
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