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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, on the clock. Does that mean working more than the 6 hour school hours?
Does that mean working over Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Break, which the rest of the US requires vacation time that teachers don't have to work? 
What about the professional days that always seem to fall around long weekends? 
Give us a break. You get 2 months off with a million off days that no one outside of teaching gets. 
And PS., the majority of the US population only gets 2-3 weeks of vacation. Stop whining. [/quote]

1. I work 8 hours a day, not 6. And I have office hours during lunch, so no real breaks. 
2. The past two years I have taken kids on field trips over Spring Break for extra enrichment plus this helps parents out with childcare. 
3. The teachers I know usually skip those professional development days to go to our school to actually plan and grade, instead of doing whatever crap they force us to do at PD days. 
4. I actually only get paid for 10 months, and over the summer I either take courses to hone my teaching skills or get another endorsement OR I teach summer school.

I would like a cost of living increase so that I could continue to live in the community in which I teach. That's about it really, I am not asking for a huge raise. [b]The cops and firefighters got COLA for 6 years with retro pay, why can't we? [/b]So I am not entirely sure who is the whiny little baby is in the situation. But hey, keep on trucking booboo. 
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Since this is a consistent argument made based on behalf of the retro pay, I am curious if the cops and firefighters had a similar adjustment in the their pay scale as the teachers about 5 years ago (close to when the contract expired) when the IMPACT pay scale was implemented. What's clear is that the WTU is demanding retro increases to a brand new highly competitive pay scale. The side of the story that seems to be unsaid (at least on the union side) is that most DCPS teachers base salaries probably increased by 20% or more within the last 5 years.

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