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 Dr-J on April 26, 2016 - 4:58 pm
Joe, I don’t misstate the facts to try to make an argument as you do. There’s a surplus in the FJUHSD Districts budget, economic outlook isn’t “bleak” and here you are advocating that teachers shouldn’t get part of a surplus which is the result of them being denied a pay increase for the past eight years.
Arguing that it will cost taxpayers more doesn’t suffice, nor does attempting to make students health an issue, to try to avoid the truth, which is that teachers aren’t being treated fairly.
#2 by Anonymous on April 27, 2016 - 7:19 am
If you were in on the LCAP meetings, understood the direction all of these unsustainable salary, benefits, and pensions were, total compensation package, you would not be arguing this.
Even if the reported $35M+ reserve exists and in light of the unsustainable track we are on, don’t you think the reserve to actually keep the schools going outweighs more short term unsustainability?
Please wake up to reality, worldwide, actually. We are approaching a cliff. Not just FJUHSD but worldwide. We are in for a bumpy ride.
#3 by Barry Levinson on April 27, 2016 - 9:16 am
If Dr-J you are correct then why is the average classroom size somewhere around 35 students or higher. There are areas of the country where the average public classroom size is as low as 12 to 14 students. So your inference that there are no budgetary issues is in fact false Dr-J. It is so disturbing that those such as Dr-J who make false baseless allegations are the same ones that play fast and loose with the truth. So for people such as Dr-J who remain in the dark continue to throw your garbage at me. I will continue to state the facts and the truth because I care about my community and I certainly care about the education and well-being of all Fullerton students.
#4 by Reality Is..... on April 27, 2016 - 11:30 am
So you, Barry, are saying that you want class sizes of 15 kids max which would double the amount of teachers, double the amount of classrooms needed, double the amount of school property needed, and along those same lines you want all teachers to not get a raise in pay or benefits for 10-20 years. Interesting. Oh. You also want the kids out playing so you need more play space since you will be building double the amount of classrooms now too.
Everyday I see more and more why people in charge ignore you. Your ideas are so far fetched and you never have the solution. You just spout the problem in your mind, and tell people just do something about it. And if you question Barry or Joe about their ideas, they get mad and storm off upset, calling names, making false accusations, and tell you that you are the worst city or state leader in history.
It’s all making perfect sense now.
#5 by Anonymous on April 28, 2016 - 3:55 pm
How do you know they are ignored? You mean, that’s what you want everyone to think. Really? Get mad, calling names and make false accusations? Sure sounds like YOU, Reality is. You really think the readers listen to you? You’re delusional! No one cares about what you say let alone believe anything you post here.
Yeah, it’s all making perfect sense alright…you’re just trying to cause problems and discredit Joe and Barry. Sorry, but it’s not working so why don’t you just give it up.
#6 by Anonymous on April 29, 2016 - 6:51 am
There isn’t any evidence that anyone with any actual power gives a crap about what these two clowns think other than to get them to shut up and stop polluting meetings.
#7 by Joe Imbriano on April 29, 2016 - 8:25 am
There isn’t any evidence that anyone with any actual power gives a crap about the students other than to get re elected.
#8 by Fullerton Lover on April 29, 2016 - 9:31 am
Maybe that’s part of the problem that Joe and Barry are trying to address?
People who are elected to City Council here in Fullerton, are provided with limitless resources to fund their political campaigns by the public employees unions?
Why would you think that the public employees unions here in Fullerton, would provide their city council candidates that they sponsor, with over $100,000.00 each election cycle?