"Gene" wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:49:43 -0500, Jim wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:39:12 -0500, Jim wrote:

The lady had to lay off the teachers she couldn't afford to pay. If she
couldn't get more money budgeted to avoid the layoff, what other
options
did she have?

I'm fairly familiar with situations like this living with a Union
official as I do. It's becoming more and more common to
superintendents to over hire, claim poverty, then lay off the highest
paid teachers (assuming that they don't have a contract that RIFs by
seniority rather than teaching assignment) keeping the newer lower
paid teachers to replace them.

Frankly, I think it's unethical.
Might be as you say but I thought this particular layoff was due to
budget cuts. Ethics doesn't play a big part in modern day life. School
boards must realize that they sometimes need to take drastic measures to
prevent unions from running their school systems. Fight fire with fire,
if you will. I mean no disrespect to your wife, but I do not have
empathy for or support unions.

Not only is Tom entirely correct, I'll add another very great truth.
Most local educational agencies are *VERY* top heavy (and becoming
more so with every year). If you are going to make cuts, you don't
send away the teachers and screw the students... you send away
superflous administrators... they don't teach ANYBODY and, well, isn't
teaching the whole idea?

Think about it.... ever heard a news report of: we dumped "X" amount
of teachers and "Y" amount of administrators that were, subsequently,
no longer needed?
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Very true. Maybe 40 years ago, San Francisco layed off a large bunch of
teachers as the declining enrollment did not require as many teachers. Not
one administrator was dumped.