I'm reading this "teachers against teaching"piece that says teachers' unions want a four-day workweek and saying to myself, really! Nellie uses the plural S throughout her article, implying that teachers' unions across this nation want a four-day workweek. Then, she bad-mouths teachers' unions by painting with a broad brush that the unio…
I'm reading this "teachers against teaching"piece that says teachers' unions want a four-day workweek and saying to myself, really! Nellie uses the plural S throughout her article, implying that teachers' unions across this nation want a four-day workweek. Then, she bad-mouths teachers' unions by painting with a broad brush that the unions don't care about students. To reinforce her point, she makes the harebrained statement, "The rich will get Friday tutors." One, and only one union, is proposing a 'self-taught Fridays,' not what her article implies. I can't help but wonder if she knows the disparity between teachers' pay and the inequality of student resources that exist in school districts throughout this country? Ms. Bowles is impugning her own credibility with this type of writing.
"But a loophole allowed school systems to report educator salaries to Washington using a districtwide pay schedule, thus masking large salary gaps between the higher-paid veteran staffs in middle-class schools and the young teachers earning entry-level pay in poor parts of the district."
"but nearly half of the school funding is from property taxes, so wealthier areas with more expensive homes will have more money to put into their local public schools for programs, supplies, technology, playgrounds, and more."
First: I think teachers should be paid a lot more. It should be a competitive, well-compensated career. On tutors: Parents did that throughout the school cancellations during the pandemic. Many hired private teachers full-time. Not sure why it wouldn't happen on Fridays? Last: the three-day-weekend advocacy (some explicitly arguing for it, some just canceling Friday classes at random) and the move to make Zoom-schooling a normal part of the week is a trend happening around the country. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/11/public-school-teachers-students-demand-extra-days-off-covid-19/6372122001/?gnt-cfr=1
The framing and thrust of your article are that teacher unions across the country want a four-day workweek. You provide a link to USA Today, which I can only assume you provide to back up your article! The USA Today piece discusses the difficulties schools are having because of the pandemic. Teacher's unions were mentioned three times in the article. None were calling for a four-day workweek. School districts and administrators were lamenting staff shortages because of the pandemic creating difficulty in keeping the schools open. I did a search for teachers unions wanting a four-day workweek and came up with only one, that would be the Portland's teachers union wanting to have "half of high school teachers would be available online in the morning and half would be available in the afternoon, so that students could have teachers available for the entire six-hour school day."
This comment: "the three-day-weekend advocacy (some explicitly arguing for it, some just canceling Friday classes at random) and the move to make Zoom-schooling a normal part of the week is a trend happening around the country."; is not a mere distortion but a full-fledged misrepresentation of teacher's unions across this nation.
Two sum it up, I can only assume that you don't care that you're squandering your credibility!
I'm reading this "teachers against teaching"piece that says teachers' unions want a four-day workweek and saying to myself, really! Nellie uses the plural S throughout her article, implying that teachers' unions across this nation want a four-day workweek. Then, she bad-mouths teachers' unions by painting with a broad brush that the unions don't care about students. To reinforce her point, she makes the harebrained statement, "The rich will get Friday tutors." One, and only one union, is proposing a 'self-taught Fridays,' not what her article implies. I can't help but wonder if she knows the disparity between teachers' pay and the inequality of student resources that exist in school districts throughout this country? Ms. Bowles is impugning her own credibility with this type of writing.
"But a loophole allowed school systems to report educator salaries to Washington using a districtwide pay schedule, thus masking large salary gaps between the higher-paid veteran staffs in middle-class schools and the young teachers earning entry-level pay in poor parts of the district."
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/education/us-education-department-finds-salary-gap-in-poor-schools.html
"but nearly half of the school funding is from property taxes, so wealthier areas with more expensive homes will have more money to put into their local public schools for programs, supplies, technology, playgrounds, and more."
https://www.aaastateofplay.com/school-districts-ranked-by-the-money-they-spend-per-student/
As of the 2019-2020 school year, an average teacher's salary was $52,035,
https://schools.texastribune.org/districts/san-perlita-isd/
Teachers can make over $100,000.
https://jobs.teacher.org/school-district/scarsdale-public-schools/
First: I think teachers should be paid a lot more. It should be a competitive, well-compensated career. On tutors: Parents did that throughout the school cancellations during the pandemic. Many hired private teachers full-time. Not sure why it wouldn't happen on Fridays? Last: the three-day-weekend advocacy (some explicitly arguing for it, some just canceling Friday classes at random) and the move to make Zoom-schooling a normal part of the week is a trend happening around the country. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/11/11/public-school-teachers-students-demand-extra-days-off-covid-19/6372122001/?gnt-cfr=1
The framing and thrust of your article are that teacher unions across the country want a four-day workweek. You provide a link to USA Today, which I can only assume you provide to back up your article! The USA Today piece discusses the difficulties schools are having because of the pandemic. Teacher's unions were mentioned three times in the article. None were calling for a four-day workweek. School districts and administrators were lamenting staff shortages because of the pandemic creating difficulty in keeping the schools open. I did a search for teachers unions wanting a four-day workweek and came up with only one, that would be the Portland's teachers union wanting to have "half of high school teachers would be available online in the morning and half would be available in the afternoon, so that students could have teachers available for the entire six-hour school day."
This comment: "the three-day-weekend advocacy (some explicitly arguing for it, some just canceling Friday classes at random) and the move to make Zoom-schooling a normal part of the week is a trend happening around the country."; is not a mere distortion but a full-fledged misrepresentation of teacher's unions across this nation.
Two sum it up, I can only assume that you don't care that you're squandering your credibility!
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/11/30/portland-public-schools-teachers-union-schedule-changes-covid-19-pandemic/