Posted on 01/14/2019 3:49:38 AM PST by Libloather
“Could the replacement teachers actually do a better job?”
Well, they couldn’t do any worse!
The la teachers are typical “not-paid-enough, overworked, unappreciated educators” who fail at their profession. I never have met an “educator” who didn’t spout that...and whine. They only “work” 8 months a year, get well-paid, get all sorts of holidays, have great benefits and retirement packages. What spoiled children. Fire them all. Close the schools for illegal aliens. Probably some of the teachers are illegal aliens. What a pathetic mess.
Being that we’re talking public schools in California, the lives of the ‘students’ will GREATLY IMPROVE the longer they are out of school.
California teachers lost my support, especially regarding class size, when their union spent millions to defeat Prop. 187 on free education for illegals. At that point, and as the challenges to it continued with heavy CTA involvement, I vowed never to support union demands for smaller classes.
What they say for public consumption and what they insist on in the contract are different things.
The second link has a link to the full report.
Well, I understand that most people think being a teacher is easy, and of course, and parents think that the honor of spending the day with their darling children is frankly something teachers should be happy to do for a pittance. But the fact is, it’s a difficult job and most people do not want to do it. So pay up or teach your children on your own.
So, is the District pointing that out, loudly, or demanding the District's side be heard in their own words?
Our local news (over 1k miles away) "covered" this, last night, and everyone talking (beside the reporterette) was a student or a teacher. There might have been 5 seconds of the reporterette saying the District says it can't afford the Union's demands.
I don’t think I was ever in a class of under 2 dozen kids. It seemed to go very well. Of course, back then we had something called “discipline”.
Some do; more and more don’t even bother here in NJ. Their job is breeding - at least the anchor so they can stay. Our public school system would close half its buildings without them, so government turns a blind eye to them.
Yes. I’ve had Honors classes that were 42 and it was fine. But with the regular kids, you get over 33 and it gets difficult.
Oh, agreed (my wife is a teacher), but, are we talking 30+ per class in LA?
The class sizes can vary wildly due to scheduling needs. I’ve had years where one class period was 24 and the next was 38, and no one seemed able to do anything about it. But yes, L.A. ... Like this year, I have six classes (we’re on an 8 block schedule, which I hate) and my class sizes are between 27 and 36. It’s the science teachers who really get slammed, for some reason. Ours had over 40 in every class last year. It’s just nuts.
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