http://www.svsd.k12.pa.us/home/Schools/Park.html
18 of the people on this list signed the greivance but I don't know which 18:
Posted on 03/30/2015 9:31:04 AM PDT by servo1969
UNITED FEDERATION OF HUMANITY
LOCAL 15120
OFFICIAL GRIEVANCE FORM
Grievance filed against:
Steel Valley Education Association
Grievance alleged:
The union representing Park Elementary School teachers filed a cruel, insensitive, unnecessary and ultimately impotent grievance against Steel Valley School District. Said grievance involving a special needs student violates the compassion, decency and concern for others clauses of its collective bargaining agreement with the UFH, hereafter referred to as “humanity.”
The grievance was incalculably unintelligent and an enormous public relations gaffe that casts Park teachers as complete cads. Those aren't explicit violations of the CBA but should be noted for the record.
Complaint details:
The union filed the grievance because Park teachers bellyached that the student was violating the sanctity of their faculty-only restroom.
The grievance asserted that administrators allowed Kaitlin Montgomery, 10, to use the teachers' ground-floor loo in direct violation of their contract with the district. The faculty bathroom is the only one on that floor, and the closest to the fourth-grader's special education classroom.
The document essentially contended that Kaitlin was capable of using student restrooms on other floors. It asserted that her pulmonary hypertension and chronic lung disease impedes her walking — particularly up stairs — about as much as chronic spring allergies would trigger sneezing fits.
Superintendent Edward Wehrer rejected the grievance, citing federal laws that mandate the district accommodate Kaitlin. Too bad the laws don't restrict her teachers from behaving boorishly. Failing to comprehend that local teacher contracts do not supersede federal law, the union appealed Wehrer's decision to the school board.
In denying the grievance on Thursday, school directors admirably refrained from snickering over the union's inability to grasp where its CBA is in relevant pecking order. Nor were guffaws evident when union President Shawn McAllister complained that in this dispute over a bathroom, administrators leaked the grievance to news media.
McAllister maintained that teachers weren't fighting an accommodation for Kaitlin, but were “seeking a solution to an issue that will provide a better outcome for all parties involved.” He displayed startling self-absorption in not realizing that the outcome for Kaitlin could be plenty embarrassing if she doesn't have convenient access to a restroom.
Requested remedy:
The 18 teachers who signed the grievance should quit griping, accept their defeat, use the other two faculty restrooms in the school and get back to the business of educating students.
They also should resume complying with the clauses in their contract with humanity.
http://www.svsd.k12.pa.us/home/Schools/Park.html
18 of the people on this list signed the greivance but I don't know which 18:
Problem solved.
Dammit. Give the teachers their "sanctuary" back. Let's start a crowdfund to buy them some Porta-Potties. Sheesh. Do I have to think of EVERYthing?
The union filed the grievance because Park teachers bellyached that the student was violating the sanctity of their faculty-only restroom. The grievance asserted that administrators allowed Kaitlin Montgomery, 10, to use the teachers' ground-floor loo in direct violation of their contract with the district. The faculty bathroom is the only one on that floor, and the closest to the fourth-grader's special education classroom.
How is this child a “snowflake”? It’s not unreasonable to have a 10 year old use a restroom just a few feet away rather than have to go to another floor to use the restroom, is it?
This is not a case of the child being a "little snowflake" but of being seriously ill.
It is like telling the child in a wheelchair that they need to crawl up the stairs to go to the restroom.
Yes, it can be done but it is needlessly cruel and there is a real risk of injury.
It doesn’t sound like she’s a snowflake to me either.
She’s a special needs student with pulmonary disease who may have an accident in her pants with the amount of time it takes her to climb a flight of stairs.
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