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 6, 2016 - 8:56 pm
Maybe they need to read their contract more closely – they may be violating it:
“1 ARTICLE IV: HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT
Work Week
The work week for all full-time employees shall be not fewer than forty (40) hours, rendered in school-based and home-based services per week. Employees may leave campus at the end of the regular student day if there are no student, parent, or administrative appointments.
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All employees will have as part of their normal duty day a thirty (30) minute duty-free lunch.
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In addition to the weekly service requirement described above, an employee shall be responsible, under the direction of his/her immediate administrator, for duties normally associated with the education profession, including but not limited to: parent conferences, faculty and department meetings, open houses, back-to-school nights, 8th grade parent nights, emergency substitute teaching duties and other professional obligations that may require the employee to be available outside the school day. Recognizing that the educational process is enhanced by cooperation between parents and school staffs, teachers and other employees shall encourage individual contacts with parents and students by being available to them-with reasonable notice-before and after the regular school day.”
#2 by Joe Imbriano on January 6, 2016 - 10:59 pm
They are clearly violating it and that is why the teachers that are participating in this lockout should be fired. Let’s see if the Troy PTSA will take a position on this issue.
The Troy High School Facebook page took down the post and blocked me.