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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Here's a concept, how about not having a union. That way the teachers that teach well and work hard get rewarded, and the lazy-not-give-a-crap teachers get laid off, like the rest of society. Once laid off, maybe these people will realise that putting in an effort does offer up internalized rewards and self fulfillment with the goal to being a better person and a better teacher and improving conditions.
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Are you upset about the collective bargaining aspect of the union? Because I would not feel comfortable teaching without some of the benefits I get from my union, like legal representation if some kid decides to exact revenge on me for some perceived slight by saying I touched them.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree if it's the entire union and that's cool - but reading your original post, I guess it wasn't clear to me that you were targeting 'only the bad teachers' who frustrate me as well, as opposed to everyone in the profession.
And psicodude, I honestly looked at the memo and I am not getting 5.99% - splitting hairs, I suppose, and I know there is a deficit right now, but what would be the point in signing a bargaining agreement that said "your wages will follow AWE, so if that goes up 5% you get the same raise, unless the economy is bad and then you don't". Given the language of the contract the government signed with us, I don't feel bad about getting a raise.
Am I grateful to have a job while others are losing theirs? Of course, just as I have empathy for those people as well. But if the government didn't want to get into the situation they will be in September when we get that raise, they shouldn't have signed that agreement - and in THAT specific sense, I don't feel bad about getting a raise.