In Central Falls, Rhode Island, the teachers at Central Falls High School are soon going to be out of work. Oh, they still be getting paid by the public for unemployment, but at least they won't be interferring with the education of at risk kids.
The kids appear to be at risk - not so much by their own doing - but because of the lack of professionalism and dedication by the teachers.
In a school that is severly underperforming - by anyone's standards - the teachers were asked to tutor students and to put in a couple of hours extra each day to try to improve the performance of the students. The union balked. The School Board fought back. School Board = 1, Union = 0.
The question was really simple for the teachers. Follow the union or actually teach because that was their calling. Apparently backing the union was more important than teaching. They could have retained their job ("saved or created") teaching a few more hours each week - at no additional pay because they are salaried - or they could choose to be in the unemployment line. They chose the later. With poor decisions like this it's probably better that they get out of teaching anyway.
I hope that more school districts follow their lead. We need dedicated teachers, not union rank and file.
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