Posted on 01/11/2019 3:09:30 PM PST by george76
The United Teachers Los Angeles union is planning to call on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s 30,000 teachers to walk out on students over demands for higher pay and increased staff.
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LAUSD has offered a 6 percent raise over the first two years of a three-year contract, but officials contend totality of the union’s demands would bankrupt the district,
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LAUSD faces a projected half-billion dollar deficit this year that’s largely tied to obligations outlined in the current union contract, including generous pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers,.. .
LA teachers currently collect a salary of between $44,000 and $86,000 per year, with the average teacher salary at $75,000, though the UTLA contract spells out numerous other bonuses, incentives, salary credits, mileage payments, vacation buyouts, differentials, stipends, mentor pay and other payments for union educators.
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LAUSD says the staffing increases being demanded by the union would cost an estimated $786 million a year, further depleting a district already facing a $500 million deficit.”
Aside from the financial aspects, the union contract makes it especially difficult for district administrators to terminate tenured teachers, regardless of whether they’re a danger to students or staff.
Many parents and education activists argue the inability to terminate bad teachers is a major reason why 52 percent of LAUSD schools earned a D or F in English language arts, 50 percent earned a D or F in math, and just 40 percent of all students graduate college or career ready..
Until the Supreme Court clarified the law last year, public employees like teachers were required to contribute to unions whether they wanted to or not. The change served a massive blow to teachers unions that monopolize public schools, and many responded with rallies and protests to reassert union dominance.
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Not the teachers fault.
If the student doesn’t have a reinforcing environment at home, the odds of success are slim.
I have a 10th grade education and two years of college. That would not have happened without my Mom and Dad.
Learned to read and write at 4.
Division and Multiplication at 5.
and plenty of other stuff over the years.
If I found something interesting it was encouraged.
If I wasn’t doing such a hot job on a particular subject I received guidance.
And they’ll get it too.
Voting can’t change anything at this point. The system is rigged to continuously buy off the most important blocs and interests and their votes, with massive spending, massive taxes, and massive debt
I’m sorry to say so, but the only thing that might save this country is a financial crisis that pushes states like CA, IL and NY into bankruptcy (or since they can’t go bankrupt - default)
Same thing that bankrupt Chicago and Illinois.
They are archaic, ineffectual, seditious, extremely expensive and screw up traffic with their busses!
Typical dhimmicrap socialists...programs are failing so throw more taxpayer money at it, and make no changes.
The definition of insanity writ large.
A low graduation rate might not mean a whole lot. If you’re dealing with students who come to school maybe three days a week - and then cause trouble when they are there - a 40% graduation rate would be pretty darn good.
So you could blame the teachers who must work under those conditions. But I’d rather blame the administrators who allow those conditions to occur in the first place.
How many tens of thousands of Mexico’s children are CA taxpayers forced to pay to educate? The English test scores give you a clue.
Union thugs want new - unfunded - spending of $786 million a year plus the current $500 million deficit.
Then the ballooning generous pension payments and health coverage for retired teachers.
According to new data from the Census Bureau, California is the least educated state in America. It ranked number one for the percentage of those over 25-years-old who have never completed ninth grade.
Plus, it ranked 50th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.
https://www.kusi.com/california-ranked-as-the-least-educated-state-in-the-country/
I agree. You can’t teach students who won’t sit in their seats or close their mouths long enough to take in instruction.
My daughter teaches music in LA, pre K -8th. She sees over 800 students a week!! No aid, all by herself. I couldn’t believe it, that is practically impossible. How do you do a Christmas program with 800 kids?? How do you learn their names??
I would say she deserves way more than a 6.5% raise, she needs at least a couple aids to help.
Combat Pay
You try to teach classes that are 100% Illegals from Mexico
Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of California Community Colleges, wants to abolish Algebra requirement.
Math is , like, hard.
Most graduates of urban high schools in LA, Chicago and New York read at the 5th grade level and make no pretense of doing math. Employers consider them to be functionally illiterate.
See my post 12.
I thought California was progressive, I would have never dreamed a single music teacher would be asked to teach music to 800+ different kids per week.
See my posts 12 and 16!
Combat pay is what it is! I hope she doesn’t get PTSD!
“I hope she doesn’t get PTSD!”
Me too. If some teacher goes postal there, they should probably get therapy, not a sentence.
A good friend of mine was a math teacher. One year out of college, he got a job teaching math at a public high school in Virginia. This was about 10 years ago. He was very excited to start his new job!
Well, they give him classes mainly made up of recent immigrant children. Few of them could speak English. And they had very poor math backgrounds. But my friend tried hard anyway.
No surprise...his students scored well below average on the state’s standardized math tests. Someone had to pay for this! So my friend got fired.
What do you think? Was it his fault that his scores were so low?
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