Comments on: Rhee: “Plan B” on Teachers Contract

By: Peace

Peace — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:18:36 +0000

Meet all operational needs in school buildings!Support and instructional feedback is critical ! Opposed that Mrs.Rhee feels she can re-write educational laws as she goes along as well as constitutional laws in the US in her public educational reform efforts.Want to save millions DC ? Ask the principle's and teacher's what they need to run a business and meet their resource needs to do so!Read about Rhee and the results thus far and wonder,is there no administrative remedy? When the needs in Rhee's school buildings have been met, then perhaps will not be so critical of her reform efforts. NCLB and 10% with increased accountability and to many policy makers influenced by politics ! What's missing ? Books for students,teacher's in classrooms and principle's in buildings falling apart!Or have they been fired ? Are the copy machines working today ? Meet the needs of our American public eduational school buldings !If you haven't read Manufactured Crisis yet, it's a great book for perspective !PL 107-110 unfunded and end the mandates, cause it's not working !

By: uniongal

uniongal — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:02:39 +0000

Thanks for the update Mike. All workers need a voice, no matter what field. Unions aren't just for laborers (LiUNA), Electricians (IBEW), writers (WGA) or casino workers (UAW), it's also for teachers (NEA, AFT, etc...) nurses (SEIU, CNA), Engineers (BLE, IUOE), county child support workers (Teamsters, AFSCME), even actors (SAG). To have an education forum and to not have any unions on the panel ESPECIALLY the very EDUCATION REFORM minded Randi Weingarten is a travesty. But to be an elected Democratic official to sit on such a panel is tantamount to being in your face anti-union. Something Rhee and Fenty seem to be courting as a mantra of theirs.

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:23:40 +0000

Nope, no union folks on the panel, and didn't seem to be any union folks there at all, from what I was told. BTW, the AFT is a "platinum-level" sponsor of the convention and prez Randi Weingarten will be addressing the floor this evening.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:50:37 +0000

Let me say one thing I feel deep about: The words ‘teaching’ and ‘union’ should never be used in the same sentence. Provided one is a factory worker, a garbage collector or a carpenter, unionizing maybe necessary. Education of the young - resoundingly not. DCPS as an unionized environment? Preposterous. Say no to the union.

By: uniongal

uniongal — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:30:06 +0000

I suppose this is really teling...Fenty and Rhee at an anti-union event. I'm guessing that's what it is since you didn't mention any AFL-CIO or Change to Win union on that panel.

By: Ernest

Ernest — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:57:57 +0000

B or Z, Michelle’s plan should be quite simple: those unable or unwilling to educate well should be compelled to look for a paycheck elsewhere.