re: Teachers in Ohio’s largest school district go on strike 2 days before start of classes

Sure looks like teachers give a frick more about themselves than they do the kids. fricking losers.

My classroom ac in a Baton Rouge school has been out since last fall. I was thankful for the rain today. The thermometer in my room (brought it from home to document) only got up to 82 today.

The issue is bureaucracy. Ten years ago, EBR installed remote control devices to AC units. They are controlled by an out of state monitoring company. The control devices constantly break. AC either gets stuck fully open and a classroom is 60 degrees, or it gets stuck closed and you sweat all day. Maintenance company and AC won't touch them because it's not part of their contract, but they have to inspect it before the monitoring company is called. They report that the unit is reading fine (temp is right, vents are closed), so they refuse to fix it.

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They probably want guarantees of hiring more teachers if classes get over a certain size.

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Aren't certified teachers not exactly easy to find right now?

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Aren't certified teachers not exactly easy to find right now?

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Exactly.

Class sizes are increasing not because of some vast school board conspiracy, but because there aren’t enough teachers to cover the demand. So you add a few more kids to each class.

Teachers know they are in higher demand, and are being asked to do more work (grade more papers) so they want more money to compensate.

The question I have is this… since schools are all short on teachers… where is that unused salary money going?

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Is this the part where the media leaves out that they want more money, which is the only real issue?

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Exactly. Do you think a math or science teacher gives a shite if they hire elementary art teachers?

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They really really care about the kids though

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I’m a teacher, and I’m a different boat than a regular classroom teacher as I coach and have band duties throughout the year. My summer is about 4 weeks. I work about 60 hours a week every week from Sept through Oct.

I knew what I was getting into…to an extent. Since I’ve started teaching, my time has been abused. I’ve learned to say “no” more often, but when someone says “it’s about the kids and not the money”, I’ll ask if they’d do it for free.

Honestly, the kids are fine. Teaching is the easy part. It’s the Fridays that start at 6AM and end at midnight followed by an all day competition on Saturday that are hard. Upper level admin will try to guilt you into things by suggesting it’s about the kids. For me? It’s my family, myself, then the students.

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Sure looks like teachers give a frick more about themselves than they do the kids. fricking losers.

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I mean, yeah. I wouldn’t expect anybody to do that job with no AC in the year 2022. The kids shouldn’t be in there either.

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as opposed to the private sector, where your 401k can determine whether or not you can retire on a given year?

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I rarely take the side of teachers, but messing around retroactively with a person’s retirement plan is imho pretty low. Imagine if in the private sector an employee was told a few years before retirement that all prior employers had retroactively decided to revise their vesting rules on employer or matching contributions to your 401k and your financial status changed completely.

I wish... Newer schools do not have windows that open...