Comment of the day: The rest of the story on teacher pay raises - OregonLive.com:
"Negotiations are a process, as you well know. What concessions are being offered for the 2% request on the table? Districts want additional hours and duties be added to the school day, a lengthened school year and furlough days. If an employer wants more hours AND more days AND more responsibility ... wait a second. Who's greedy? My, my, you've omitted more than half the story. I can't tell if you wish to prevent, or want to incite, new angry mobs now that the town hall frenzy has subsided.
Presently, my colleagues are already looking at larger class sizes. The numbers are up to 28-29 in primary grades at one of the more economically challenged schools. This is not counting the children whose parents will mosey in to register them a week after school has begun. This isn't a matter of increasing class sizes to give teachers a raise. It's a matter of class sizes already being huge, and making them even larger with no compensation. That, Jack Flack, is unreasonable."
"Negotiations are a process, as you well know. What concessions are being offered for the 2% request on the table? Districts want additional hours and duties be added to the school day, a lengthened school year and furlough days. If an employer wants more hours AND more days AND more responsibility ... wait a second. Who's greedy? My, my, you've omitted more than half the story. I can't tell if you wish to prevent, or want to incite, new angry mobs now that the town hall frenzy has subsided.
Presently, my colleagues are already looking at larger class sizes. The numbers are up to 28-29 in primary grades at one of the more economically challenged schools. This is not counting the children whose parents will mosey in to register them a week after school has begun. This isn't a matter of increasing class sizes to give teachers a raise. It's a matter of class sizes already being huge, and making them even larger with no compensation. That, Jack Flack, is unreasonable."