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 Anon on January 9, 2016 - 8:31 pm
I heard the Troy teachers won’t be showing up for the Open House this coming week…is that true??
#2 by Joe Imbriano on January 10, 2016 - 7:17 pm
If that is the case then they should be permanently locked out of the classrooms and replaced by people that would be happy to take their places.
#3 by ND on February 1, 2016 - 6:43 am
I agree. I am tired of all this complaining. My husband works two jobs just to make ends meet and he rarely gets to see our children. I am furious at just how greedy and selfish these people are.
#4 by Anonymous on February 1, 2016 - 11:17 am
What jobs does your husband do that pay so little?
#5 by Fullerton Lover on February 1, 2016 - 8:55 pm
THAT is the same type of contempt that I’ve been receiving for years and years in Fullerton, by those that USED to be known as public servants, instead of the insolent children that they’ve become who hold their parents in contempt,and are openly hostile to the hands that feed them.
Unfreakingbelievable how these servants believe that they are now our masters!
#6 by Joe Imbriano on February 1, 2016 - 9:19 pm
The jobs that pay the taxes that pay the salaries of the teachers.