California Teachers Association State of Emergency
Posted on 05/10/2011 4:53:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Several hundred California teachers left their classrooms in the hands of substitutes Monday to participate in demonstrations in Sacramento, saying the fight against extensive budget cuts to education was worth the time away from teaching kids.
The educators rallied downtown and then marched to the Capitol, where they visited lawmakers and gave them letters outlining the potential impact of an all-cuts solution to California's remaining $15.4 billion deficit, $4 billion of which could be slashed from the public school system.
....Teachers traveled to Sacramento from as far away as San Diego, although a majority of them came from the Bay Area, said David Sanchez, president of the teachers union.
He said the union was paying districts across the state for the costs of bringing in substitutes to replace the teachers, and it also picked up the protesting teachers' travel expenses.
"It's not something the public is paying for," Sanchez said.
The regular classroom teachers will receive their normal salaries under a clause in their negotiated contracts that allows paid leave for union activity.
...."In my situation, you get a wonderful sub who couldn't get hired as a teacher, and you leave detailed lesson plans" for that person, said Laura Heidt, a second-grade teacher at Stone Lake Elementary School in Elk Grove (Sacramento County).
Heidt, who worked as a prosecutor for the state before becoming a teacher seven years ago, received a pink slip this year and said she would be out as a teacher with a budget that closes the deficit with cuts alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
She's an attorney and decided to become a teacher? Something doesn't smell quite right.
“She’s an attorney and decided to become a teacher?”
Perhaps teachers in California are better paid than attorney?! She probably got a huge increase in her salary plus summers off.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/05/chris_norby_orange_county_teac.php
[excerpt] ....Meanwhile, the leader of the Education Action Group blasts the CTA’s “State of Emergency” campaign for highlighting what he called unionized teachers’ “me-first mentality.”
“If California’s teachers unions were serious about taking action, they should concentrate their efforts on finding ways to reduce or eliminate some of the more expensive perks in school-employee contracts that have been bleeding the state’s schools to death for years,” Kyle Olson, the founder and CEO of the Muskegon, Michigan-based lobby, says in a statement issued Friday.
“Residents have realized that the union’s ‘me first’ mentality is a major reason why cuts to education are now necessary,” Olson continued. “The union-organized ‘Week of Action’ to protest the painful but necessary move only confirms that the teachers unions’ real motivation has little to do with educating the state’s youth.”
He accused state union officials of having “shrugged their shoulders when school districts across the state were forced to lay off smart, young educators so their more senior colleagues could receive the expensive union perks guaranteed in school-employee contracts.”
His group faults the CTA and its member associations for failing to negotiate concessions that could have public schools money and prevented many of the cuts now facing California educators. [end excerpt]
Don’t you just love the president of their union telling the reporter that this protest isn’t “costing” the public?
Duh! What are they protesting for then, cabbages?
...proving they aren't needed.
Sometimes the story writes itself!
Indeed!
As with lawyers, there are too many “teachers.”
Parasites.
Beyond that, they indoctrinate the children against their own country, while leaving them uneducated.
The problem is not money.
The problem is that teachers and schools are funded at the highest level in US history yet are turning out kids who are less educated then 10 years ago.
The AFT and NEA teacher unions exist not to educate the next generation of Americans but squeeze the last dollar out of tax payer and to elect Democrat politicians.
Taxpayer's CHILDREN are paying the price.
And to do that they must put and KEEP as many students in their classrooms as possible. Vouchers are driving teachers unions to the picket and protest lines.
She’s an attorney and decided to become a teacher? Something doesn’t smell quite right.
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Why not? Why would you be an atty when you can be a teacher and make 100k+ AND retire with a guaranteed lifetime income via pension of almost the same amount AND health benefits FREE for as long as you live for you AND your wife?
I think I see the problem...
Memo to liberal loons, Cali is slipping into a third world country, and soon the Peace Corps will put it on the list of destinations for whacked out libkids.
"In related news, the average IQ rose in the Bay Area yesterday, while Sacramento simultaneously reeled from a 'flash crash' in the area's average IQ."
Well, if the subs can do just a good of a job as the regular teachers..... fire them and hire the subs.
No brainer.
Well easy. She's not exactly Rocket Scientist material.
"In my situation, you get a wonderful sub who couldn't get hired as a teacher, and you leave detailed lesson plans" for that person, said Laura Heidt, a second-grade teacher..."
She just told the world in a newspaper quote her job is so simple, any 'Wonderful person" could do it. Imagine that sharp whit defending you in court...
I gave up all hope for California a long time ago....may it go into bankruptcy kicking and screaming.... =.=
Perhaps teachers in California are better paid than attorney?!
In Fullerton California most teachers make over 90K less perks and this weekend the plan to march to PMS about pay cuts.
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