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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only hope I have is that FCPS will finally pass a collective bargaining agreement.  Teachers are the experts on what teachers need and don’t need.  I’m sick of the entire profession being controlled by people who have never spent time in a classroom professionally and have NO idea.

With power, teachers can insist on the class sizes, planning time, staffing ratios, and compensation that our community needs in order to strengthen our entire public education system and make the teaching profession more attractive to retain existing good teachers and recruit new teachers.

Teachers know what our classrooms need.  We need the power to actually do what we know the KIDS need.  Please help us get that power by letting your school board know that you support collective bargaining!!![/quote]

What do teachers plan to ask for? Are they expecting double digit raises even though there is no money? I don’t understand how collective bargaining helps. I’m sure it will happen since the board is all democrats but, as a parent, all I think is there will be strikes and more closed schools like what’s happened in other districts with unions.[/quote]

VA law made collective bargaining legal, but strikes are illegal. They won’t happen as employees would be immediately terminated. Here are some things that could be included (others can add more) for bargaining:

- max class size 
- increased non student facing time (planning time) 
- flexibility for telework on teacher work days 
- reduced professional development to only essentials, redirect this time to planning 
- calendar considerations, such as having an early release day every Friday or every other Friday 
- guaranteed pay when forced to give up their planning time to substitute for a sick colleague 
- and much much more [/quote]

That makes sense. These all sound reasonable to me assuming class sizes wouldn’t blow up the budget. School Board should be ashamed that most of these aren’t already in place for our teachers and IAs. The amount of work teachers need to get done with less than an hour of personal time each day is literally insanity. [/quote]

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