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Teachers, some students hold contract protest before school
By adamg on Fri, 06/17/2016 - 9:43am
Kelly O. spotted students at the Jackson-Mann School in Allston joining teachers in a "walk-in" over a teacher contract that expires Aug. 31. The Globe has more on the issues.
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What the signs should really say
"Fighting for a pay raise."
Stop busing, it cost over $110mm, problem solved.
Wrongo, buckaroo
Yes, Boston busing is way inefficient, but you can't just stop all busing, not as long as state law requires the city to bus kids at citywide charter schools, and not as long as kids with special needs have to be transported across the city - and not as long as significant parts of the city either don't have schools (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, downtown, the Waterfront) or don't have enough (West Roxbury, the North End).
Teachers Don't Care, Using Students
So far the comments are consistent with reality. The teachers only care about job security and future retirement. IF they were invested in BPS students they would stand up and say, Hey the students need more resources and support, they would hold themselves and administrators accountable for ignoring classroom challenges and letting students run amuck. They use the students to push their agenda. Of course the students are vulnerable because certain teacher types are manipulative and make the students feel the so called protesting is about them when it's not. It's about $$$, job security and retirement. After they get all of those perks, they still wouldn't care about poor, urban students.
Teachers won't apply for substitute jobs
we had teachers go on sick leave and never get replaced, then the leave drags on for weeks, then months, you get report cards but what are they grading? The kids just sit there day after day.
They can't hire a sub because the teacher may or may not come back any day and who is going to take the job?
Even teachers from other districts say that Boston pays the most, evaluates the least, demands the least for tenure, and has the most whining and complaining. They all say it's for the kids but it's not.