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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]Teachers couldn’t legally strike in DC, yet they effectively did. Same thing in Chicago.[/b]

Parents would be nuts not to fight collective bargaining for teachers in FCPS. Particularly given some of the demands in this thread, like Friday afternoons off.[/quote]

So you’re saying the possibility exists now without collective bargaining? Then why the angst over the possibility of gaining a CBA?[/quote]

Because with CBA comes a union with much more resources with which to organize anti-student actions.[/quote]

Anti student actions?  You should visit your kid’s school more often. [/quote]

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