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 Barry Levinson on January 6, 2016 - 2:19 pm
There are many good and devoted teachers in the teaching profession. They are now being forced to teach in whole or at least in part to the new harmful common core dumbing down standards. Isn’t that an oxymoron, the phrase “common core standards”?
It is clear that normally a teacher’s union contractual demands are primarily about the salaries, benefits and working conditions of its employees, regardless of their potential negative impact on their students with regard to increased class size and/or lack of money for books and supplies, etc. I will never expect that any teachers’ union act in the best interest of their students. However, it would be refreshing and different to see some concern for the students as well as the teachers they represent. It would also be nice to see more good teachers stand up against their unions, when the unions propose various contract items that will not be in the best interest of their students.
#2 by Anon on January 6, 2016 - 4:10 pm
School isn’t about the students’ education anymore. It hasn’t been in a very long time.
If that was not the case, Common Core would not even exist and teachers would not be replaced with technology devices. The public school model is now owned by corporations that view public education as their own profit model.
Oh, and they must irradiate the kids with the wireless.