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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Basic professional standards" and it's humans with lives who are being threatened with docked pay and consequences if they experience human needs like flat tires, cranky kids who won't move quickly in the morning, late busses. I'm on the outskirts of the DCI community but also in the DC education world, and I've NEVER heard of a school with a clock in system for grown adults.  And that's just one aspect of admin infantilizing staff.  The school used scare tactics on staff when the opportunity to unionize came up, spreading lies and making staff members feel like their jobs were at risk.  The ED took a massive salary while working to ensure support staff like facilities barely make a living wage.  The admin has a history of disrespecting their teachers and showing no faith in them. Saying that none of this appears serious is very much misunderstanding the matter and showing the same disrespect to staff that admin is doing.[/quote]

Teachers are mad because they're expected to show up on time? Seriously?

Clocking in/out is a pretty normal in lots of the working world.[/quote]

Do you clock in and out of your professional role? It's maybe normal in hourly, waged roles, but not for professionals who can be trusted to do their jobs and be humans. Odd that previous poster's small example is what people are latching onto when, if you read the seven page doc, there are so many more egregious issues. [/quote]

In most professional jobs, where people are salaried, they work however many hours it takes to do the job. One week that might be 40 hours, the next week it might be 70 hours. You just do it, and no one keeps track of how much time you spent working. That doesn't happen in teaching. The number of hours and days they work is specifically prescribed by union agreements. If you told teachers you were canceling professional development day or adding days to the school year because their students' test scores were terrible, the union's head would explode. [/quote]

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