Posted on 01/14/2019 3:49:38 AM PST by Libloather
A strike by tens of thousands of teachers in Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest school district, is all but inevitable starting Monday after the two sides did not renew negotiations over the weekend.
Talks broke down Friday when the teachers' union rejected as "woefully inadequate" a new offer from the LA Unified School District.
With no new discussions scheduled, pickets are likely to begin at 7 a.m. as teachers stand firm on sticking points including higher pay and smaller class sizes.
Schools will stay open if a walkout happens. The district, with 640,000 students, has hired hundreds of substitutes to replace teachers and others who leave for picket lines.
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A backwards raise? Good thing they aren't teaching economics.
It’s for the chirrun.
The district, with 640,000 students, has hired hundreds of substitutes to replace teachers and others who leave for picket lines.
Could the replacement teachers actually do a better job?
No it is ninos and ninas, then chirrun in Californification
Those “retro raises” are SOP when it comes to negotiating contracts when teachers haven’t been working with one; these deals killed NJ taxpayers, and will do the same in CA. I suspect that like NJ, there is a massive demographic difference between the taxpayers over 50 paying for these things and the recipients under 18 receiving the services. Actually, it is occurring nationwide; American workers/taxpayers paying for services for non-working foreigners.
Snort. What this is really about: pensions and health bennies.
Maybe student scores will go up. If the strike goes on for awhile, let’s test and find out.
Public School ILLITERACY RATE at 95%
Public School INNUMERACY RATE at 95%
Public School is TOTAL FAILURE !!
May the LA Teachers strike and never return.
Your child is Stupid/Estupido!
Daddy, Mommy, you hurt me bad leaving me in public school!
Learning in public schools is woefully inadequate, due to left wing communist brainwashing.
It happens in the private sector some, but not for that long. I think the longest retro pay I’ve been given was 3 months.
Newsome wants to tax water. I wonder what he will want to tax to pay for more money to public employee unions...air? /s
You sound like the illiteracy rates are a bad thing. This whole dumbing down has been planned for decades. It’s easier to control a population without an education.
The socialist rulers have done a wonderful job. They’ve stayed on point for several generations. First by educating a class of teachers who do not like children, think the guberment owes them everything, an attitude that they are the best of the best and expect you to kowtow to them. These teachers brainwashed the next generation of teachers into puppets for the state.
Actually they work for cash and collect freebies.
Solution - take pay from the low-performers and give it to the high performers....then fire anyone who doens’t think that’s fair.
Greater than 50% dropout rate
80% of High School Graduates can NOT read, write or count at the 4th grade level
75% of the Students are either Illegal Aliens or Children of Illegal Aliens.
DISBAND the Whole School District and FIRE All of them
The governor in effect seceeded from the Union
Californa should be nationalized and downgraded to a territory
Offer the teachers an 8.00% hike going back to 2017. For that they will no longer have to pay union dues, but they will have to pay their own health insurance, sick and vacation time is no longer accrued and their new pay increases and “bonuses” will stem from performance metrics set up by the Dept of Education.
See what they say.
They offered just the pay raise and the union said no, because the other three are just as important.
35,000 Teachers, 640,000 students:
18 Students per class on Average.
510,000 of the 640,000 students are English Learners or Very Poor, in other words:
80% are Illegal Aliens or Children of Illegal Aliens.
80% of High School Graduates can NOT read, write or count at the 4th grade level, greater than a 50% dropout rate.
FIRE ALL OF THEM and DISBAND the School District.
https://calwatchdog.com/2019/01/10/strike-or-no-strike-l-a-unified-in-desperate-financial-shape/
I blame the Republicans running California for this shutdown.
Oh look. I made a funny.
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