Unions had their place and did great things for the American worker, but I think now is the time for the pendulum to swing the other way for a bit.
New York City has about 700 teachers who are sitting on their duffs… not teaching, not doing anything creative for children. They have been accused of everthing from sexual offenses to a child having a hat on and singing in the classroom. I think the system has gone overboard.
What has happened to our work ethics? We are so fearful of being politically correct, so controlled by union contracts that the huge corporations’ products and teaching of our children is no longer the main point/attraction but a sideline. These teachers are collecting their $70,000 a year paychecks and painting watercolors, writing novels, staring at walls. There is something hugely wrong with this picture.
Here is what is wrong with the picture (emphasis is mine):
Once their hearings are over, they are either sent back to the classroom or fired. But because their cases are heard by 23 arbitrators who work only five days a month, stints of two or three years in a rubber room are common, and some teachers have been there for five or six (YEARS).
I’m thinking, can’t the school system do something about this? Here’s an idea. Tell the union that their arbitrators must work five days a WEEK not a month just like the rest of us working slobs have to work. I guess that is too novel, though.
I look at the state of the union and I realize the waste is more than the piled up garbage in America. Why didn’t congress give every American a check for $1 million? It would have been a WHOLE lot cheaper and would have stimulated the economy in an astronomical way. Oh, guess that wouldn’t have worked, though, because all the little businesses would have lost all their little workers. However, I do believe it would have worked a lot better than the bail out. All you have to do is look at each lottery winner over the past umpteen years to know that within a year or two, the poor would be poor again and the rich would have made a lot more. But, hey, the car people would still have their jobs and the mortgage companies would still be in business. I can assure you, I would have put my $ 1 million to a LOT better use than AIG did, or Chrysler, or any other bailout receipient. Hind sight and all that!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI worked for over 10 years as a non classified employee in the school district. Teachers complain if the sun doesn’t shine that day. This year they had to make up 8 days because of going over the normal 5 calamity days. They had no problem staying under the blankets all day while it was cold and snowy but want to (****tch because those days have to be made up. Did they take it out on the kids, yes they did, they were hateful and crabby with these children. Out of the 6 hours and 35 minutes per day they are “teaching” they have lunch time, plan time and if that is not enough on Friday afternoon it is group the classes to together and have movie afternoon, pop corn and juice for someone else to clean up and then look at you and say job security. They gripe because they do not have enough plan time although the time that is allotted for such activity they are in the next classroom gossiping and not using time wisely. They are more well protected by their Union than the non classified employees. If teachers think that a non classified employee is not doing their job correctly, and they have no experience in the field but because they are teachers they are the smartest and wisest of all, they go and complain about things like not enough toilet paper in the bathroom. I have dealt with enough teachers over the years to know there is only one way to do something and that is their way. The waste at the end of the school year is awful, the things that are thrown out, that our tax dollar paid for because they have no use for it. Books that had to be taken to the trash under the cover of darkness so that nosey neighbors would not see what was being thrown away. You name it and I have dealt with it. It’s the non classified employees that needs the rubber rooms, because they are nuts for staying in the positions that we are in.
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