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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bitter and nasty, no.  Is it YOUR fault that there is no money in the budget?  YES!  Your teachers union has pushed for benefits packages that are breaking the budget and breaking the backs of the taxpayers!  Right now, the vast majority of my tax dollars to to pay retired-teachers-pensions. 
Raising taxes for things like adequate supervision?  I'd be thrilled to.  But guess what?  That money would be funneled to pay for teacher's benefits packages rather than aides.  [b]You teachers should be ashamed.  Act like a professional and do what we all do at our jobs - pitch in and make sure the job is done right.[/b][/quote]

Wow. Great way to show appreciation for the hard work, and long hours teachers put in every day, some at very minimal wages. FWIW, I'm a teacher in DC, but have a child who attends K in MD. At our school, we don't have any time set aside for lunch breaks or planning during the day. We accompany the children to recess, and lunch, and provide all the supervision for them. Our planning time happens at the end of the day, once the children have gone home or to aftercare. As teachers, we would love even 10mins of time on our own, but that is a luxury we do not have. I know my child's K teacher works as hard as I do, and for someone to begrudge her and other teachers the right to take a 30min lunch break is pathetic. I'd like to see you step into the shoes of a teacher, and do what we do to ensure that YOUR child/children are well taken care of. Teachers in MoCo should be ashamed? No. Try pointing the finger at yourself and your ungrateful and judgmental attitude.[/quote]

1) I, and many other workers, don't get a guaranteed, union enforced lunch break each day, not sure why teachers would require this as a right.  Please remember that kids go to specials for 1 hour per day - why isn't this the teacher's lunch time?  
2) Teachers in MOCO do not make anything near "minimal wages."  Once pensions and benefits are included, the already reasonable salary becomes inarguably generous.
3) Why, when the children leave school at 3:15pm, can't teachers plan for the next day at that point.  That would give them 1 hour and 45 minutes of planning time assuming they leave at 5pm (which is a luxury that, again, many parent's do not have).

Why are we even pitting the safety/supervision of kids against teacher benefits anyway.  By that I mean, why aren't there some minimal standards which dictate that the kids need to be properly supervised at All Times during the school day. From there, one could carve out appropriate break/lunch/planning times for the teachers.  I don't buy into the idea that these things must be mutually exclusive.  After all, we would all be appalled if, say, a hospital let all of the nurses and doctors take a union enforced lunch break at the same time, leaving no professional staff in charge of the patients.  In this scenario, I doubt the community would simply throw its hands in the air and say, oh well, health care costs are rising, what else can we do.  Look, every industry deals with budget issues.  It is not reasonable to jeopardize the safety of children in the name of budget issues.  Particularly, when the teachers unions demands are the main reason the schools budgets have been broken.[/quote]

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