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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is not the place to post. Most on here are not teachers and have no sympathy for them. I advise you to post on places like fishbowl and reddit. Best of luck. I am a teacher and it is draining. More mentally than anything. The pay does not even matter to me.[/quote]

I have tremendous sympathy for teachers. But why have teachers been unable to make changes using their unions? From what I understand, teachers are 
-overwhelmed with IEP paperwork and meetings 
-overwhelmed by behavioral issues and acting out
-overwhelmed by phone use in class
-overwhelmed by increasing demands by admin

I am sure i am missing many others. Why can’t the Union, which I thought was powerful (although maybe not) negotiate changes?? It sounds like teachers and many families are aligned, but state lawmakers have handcuffed schools with so many legal requirements? [/quote]

It's a matter of short-term versus long-term interests. The union is driven primarily by veteran teachers trying to maximize their benefits for the handful of years they have until retirement. The easy short-term win is increasing pay, particularly for the veteran teachers themselves (who already make far more than their new-teacher colleagues).

Instead, they should be focused on increasing prep time. That necessitates increasing staff. For the budget to still work, that would require reductions in overall compensation. (mostly as reductions in health care and retirement benefits, combined with a reduction in the growth of salaries).

That would help long-term, but the fear is that it would hurt current veteran teachers.[/quote]

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