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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virginia is "A Right To Work State", which to my knowledge, means unions are pretty powerless[/quote]

Well, you're wrong about that.  We won collective bargaining rights.  No one can force a teacher to be in a union ("right to work" really means right to get a free ride from the collective bargaining work of union members) but unions took a significant step this year in making working conditions more manageable for teachers, at least in buildings where principals routinely violated norms.[/quote]

How??  We used to be able to leave early or come in late if we didn't have a class, and now we have to be in the building for all of the "contract hours."  We also have an extra couple of hours of some random hall or lunch duty that we never had before.  We got bigger class sizes too, and all of this in exchange for a small raise that most of us didn't need.  Some bargain.[/quote]

As an ES teacher, this makes my bloody boil, and it speaks to the entitlement of secondary folks that you so brazenly state it. I hope all MS/HS folks aren’t like this, and it makes me quite glad that you’re now being held to the same time standard. [/quote]

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