Parents: Impasse hurting students
Teachers withhold key help, they say
Parents of King Philip Regional High School students are steamed at its teachers, saying the union’s means of protesting its drawn-out contract dispute with the district are hurting their children’s studies and their college plans.
They report that many teachers are refusing to write personal recommendation letters for students who are applying to colleges, issuing form-letter recommendations instead. They also say that many teachers have canceled independent study courses, offered mostly to upperclassmen, forcing the students into study halls or to look outside the system for similar instruction this fall.
And, they say, many teachers are not entering grades, homework assignments,
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