Posted on 03/17/2014 8:18:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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XYZ educators are highly qualified, responsive teachers who work extremely hard to continue to provide exemplary education for your children. Among these highly qualified teachers we have Fulbright scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities grant recipients, and National Board Certified Educators. We regularly work beyond what the contract asks of us so that your children receive outstanding educational opportunities. Teachers often provide extra help to students before and after their contractual time. They attend evening events and accompany students on out of state field trips and competitions. Teachers voluntarily write many letters of recommendations for students. Without a new contract, we are fearful that we will no longer be able to offer these voluntary services. We are also worried that XYZ will lose its ability to attract and retain the best and brightest educators therefore jeopardizing XYZ’s high quality, high ranking educational system.
Please support your XYZ Educators by contacting the School Committee members listed below. Encourage them to settle a fair and competitive contract with the teachers.
And there you have it - not the problem with unions, but the problem with union mentality.
When are you people going to realize that a union operates for the "average" teacher. If you are a really good teacher and actually should be paid more than a truly lousy teacher, your union prevents that from happening. Unions suppress the talented, the productive, and the exceptional while elevating the bad, unproductive, and also-ran members.
Another scare tactic.
A new one though.
Letters of recommendation can come from coaches, church leaders, neighbors, etc.
Just means students will participate in non-school activities and teachers will be further marginalized.
I would expect this type of blackmail would not be well received by parents...What is the general mood of your fellow parents (and not just the one posting on Free Republic) :)?
Nothing against teachers.....
But how much weight does a LOR from a teacher really hold these days anyway?
Just got the email, so I don’t know yet.
So far some 8000 odd teachers in Michigan have been unable to voluntarily pay their union dues so the union is threatening them with a collection agency.
I disagree. Unions seem to always operate at the level of the lowest member. In the eyes of the union, no member deserves dismissal, or even reprimand. This is why teachers unions support even pedophiles in their ranks.
“Teachers voluntarily write many letters of recommendations for students. Without a new contract, we are fearful that we will no longer be able to offer these voluntary services. “
Voluntarily? BS. I asked for mine and so did my classmates as teachers won’t lift a finger unless you ask them for it, especially when you apply for college.
And if the teachers are instructed by the union to cease doing any “extra” work the union workers spy on each other and bully anyone caught doing said “extra” work.
If it is a generic letter not much. But I assure you that as a professor at a career orientated college, my letters of recommendations and phone calls have helped about 100 students obtain full time jobs after graduation or summer Coop employment just before their senior year which is required for graduation.
If it is a generic letter not much. But I assure you that as a professor at a career orientated college, my letters of recommendations and phone calls have helped about 100 students obtain full time jobs after graduation or summer Coop employment just before their senior year which is required for graduation.
“But how much weight does a LOR from a teacher really hold these days anyway?”
It helps when you apply for university, especially with these ridiculous and racist race-based quota system in place. You need every edge you can get, especially if you are white and colleges hate whitey.
Of course you need to ask. By asking a teacher knows that you are applying for a job or going on to college. Teachers and professor have better uses of their time to write letters of recommendation to say MIT if you are not applying to MIT.
And the goal is to make all members equal to that level of the lowest member. I used to work with a union and they did not like members that progressed in their job and were promoted to management. They lost that member’s dues and it set a bad example for others wanting to better themselves.
I still remember my classmates, 2 of them saying, they’re going to state and our lazy teacher said I’ll think about it’. When I said, I needed it for my Stanford application, he said he’ll give it to me the next day.
It was sent from a Gmail address associated with the teachers’ union, and it was sent to all the parents in my son’s class. The email addresses are visible.
I’d be asking how the union got those addresses.
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