Submitted By a Concerned Troy Parent–
Troy High School teachers abruptly close doors to students and make the parents sign off on it.
Are the students caught in the middle of a contract dispute between the teachers’ union and FJUHSD?
This is just one of many forms that came home with the students from Troy teachers yesterday.
Troy teachers are now:
Unavailable for help before or after school
Unavailable for tutoring before or after school
Unavailable to write letters of recommendation for colleges or scholarships
Unavailable for AP testing review before or after class time
Teachers have decided that they will no longer be available to help the student outside of their contracted work hours.
Is the unavailability due to a union contract dispute?
Before break teachers were wearing red to protest the lack of a contract.
Some, many, or all explained to the students, during class time, why they were protesting.
The understanding was that their teaching salaries were not enough. So when it is ever enough? You be the judge. Here is the salary list for the district.
The District’s school year consists of 180 instructional days of 372 minutes each-6.2 hours a day 180 days a year. Mr. Bainter, for example had total compensation of $136, 221 for 2014 and makes $122 per hour in total compensation if you do the math. Guess it is not enough for him or the rest of them for that matter.
Keep in mind that they do not work the whole year and the wages/total compensation are unsustainable: http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/calstrs-teachers-retirement-pension-system-in-deep-trouble/#respond
“Using the State accounting system for pensions, CalSTRS, the teacher retirement plan, had a $8.9 billion increase in liability, bringing it to an admitted unsustainable $67.3 billion. Using Federal pension accounting systems, the real unfunded liability is over $170 billion—and growing. At some point the taxpayers will be forced, by law, to bail out another government failure.”
Teachers want more, but are totally divorced from the fiscal reality.
Teachers want more and will totally turn their backs on the students in order to have their ‘unsustainable’ demands met. Looks like Troy teachers are doing just that.
#1 by Cindy on January 7, 2016 - 1:45 pm
Troy is special. The teachers are more than willing to work their contracted hours. No problem there. How many of you are willing to work overtime for free? You want the teachers to work before school, after school, their lunch time, weekends? Then I suggest you pay them for it. Plain and simple.
#2 by Dear Cindy Dunn on January 7, 2016 - 3:31 pm
Those that are non public sector employees know very well what is required to keep and maintain employment.
You stay until the job is completed, regardless of the hours you are paid. If that means into the wee hours of the morning, then that is what you do. Plain and simple.
You are very entitled, so much so that you are unable to acknowledge the real world around you. All you understand is the “I want more”. How sad.
Nothing much can be expected of teachers. I guess they have come to the conclusion that closing their door to the students is justified in order to get what they want. The students will pay the price; the ends justifies their means.
Plain and simple.