Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "This is Nothing to Do About Money...":
All of the things you have mentioned, "work in hallways, "Teachers wearing black," "Buttons with frown faces and Plainview on it, "Bright orange posters in teachers cars," and "Informational picketing," are expressions of free speech. Since public employees are prohibited from striking by the Taylor Law, these are the only ways to express solidarity.
These tactics are being used because the Board of Ed is not negotiating. Rather than trying to restrict free speech, encourage your board to negotiate.
You state "the educational experience for my kids is degraded." Whose fault is that? By many measurements, POB ranks in the top 20 of 114 districts on Long Island, yet your teachers pay is in the bottom 25% of Long Island. Why is that? Why does POB continue to perform at top levels while their teachers are paid less than 75% of the island?
If POB performs top 25 with bottom 25, how is it that "the educational experience for my kids is degraded?"
I can guess why.
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The teachers are going about getting the parents' support using the worst possible tactics. For instance, wearing the buttons for school pictures. Those pictures will be around forever, long after the salary issues have been settled.
ReplyDeleteIf the teachers want the parents support they need to come up with other ways to express themselves.
In the first sentence of the post that you are responding to, a comment is made about how pissed off would you be if subway workers performed a job action and slowed things down, causing you long delays and being late to work. How pissed off would you be? You answered all of the other points. Why not that one? By the way, your statistics are wrong about the comparision of achievement and salary.
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