Unsurprisingly, the Charleston Teacher Alliance yearly survey shows that teachers in CCSD believe their taking pay cuts as a result of five furlough days has been chosen as the easy way out to cut spending. [See Teachers Don't Want Furloughs in Wednesday's P&C.]
I'm still wondering about Superintendent McGinley's extra monthly stipend received ever since gasoline was over $4 per gallon. Just pro forma, of course, but why doesn't she show her sincerity by giving it up?
Meriting the old horse laugh, however, is the preference of 60 percent of teachers surveyed who would rather take furloughs on teacher in-service days rather than on teacher workdays. They probably wonder about the sanity of the other 40 percent.
f you've ever experienced one of these in-services (covered earlier on this blog), you know how useful they usually are.
Not.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
8 comments:
PD is total snorefest
waste of good brain cells
Why is it that Charleston school administrators get raises while classroom teachers get cuts? I'd like a school board member to explain that one...or do they just do as they are told by NJM?
...and then there was that announcement made by a Buist Academy parent last Monday evening. The bomb shell came at the end of another one of McGinley's one way conversations. Perhaps the Buist family was frustrated to learn that one of their own, Toya Hampton-Green, was missing in action at the relocation meeting.
If the cynical announcement made by a Buist parent is correct, it looks like downtown's unreachable representative on the public school board will be pulling her children out of that exclusive public magnet school next year. She's opted to put them in a private school after all. It won't be hard to guess which private school her children will be attending next fall. Her kids will have a short drive their new school while 1,300 kids and their parents will have to tough it out. The play dates will be better and they won't have to endure the long commute to less than desirable temporary digs for the next three years or more.
Considering Toya Hampton-Green's distaste for the public in general and more specifically the constituency she pretends to represent, her abandonment of the public system wasn't entirely unexpected.
Well Babbie, maybe you should offer your wealth of knowledge to the masses and pd all of us to heaven.....
Toya is having health issues and is on bed rest. So cut her a little slack.
2:50 poster: Tempting, tempting.
Toya never cut her constituents any slack. She couldn't have cared less about quality public education for her neighbors on the peninsula. She gets no more consideration than what she gave to others. As for the meaning of public service, she has no clue.
We are saved! Babbie is considering enlightening us....all will be well!
Post a Comment