The Los Angeles Public School Teacher Union called a strike against the LAUSD for better wages, lower class sizes, and more librarians, nurses, and guidance counselors.. If you read the newspapers, the teachers' union want higher pay as the main driver for the strike. However, the truth is far different. The teachers' union is striking for the following improvements for the Los Angeles public schools.
- A 6.5% raise for the three years, effective immediately.
- Lower class sizes of up to 40 student to a maximum of 34.
- All schools should have a guidance counselor, nurse, and a librarian.
- A cap on charter school growth.
- Evaluations not linked to State tests and reduce that testing..
By contrast the LAUSD has proposed the following:
- A 6% raise for three years, with 3% immediately and the reaming 3% next year, contingent on the school district having the funding.
- A commitment to reduce class sizes by 1 to 4 students in high poverty schools.
- Add a "highly effective" category to teacher evaluations.
- Making it easier to terminate teachers.
- Expand categories that can get a waiver from hiring excessed teachers.
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In the meantime the low life freaks out there have hired scab teachers to be in the schools during the strike. Hiring people off the street is really what the LA DISTRICT goons would love.
This way they can pay all the new scab mexican teachers the minimum wage and then claim how the min wage was raised to $15 per hour! Yay! Sad state of affairs however this is California and the days of the beach boys and cally blondes are over replaced with hispanics throughout the state, legal and illegal.
California announced free healthcare for all INCLUDING illegal immigrants! So, now we see caravans forming and on there way to cally for the freebies while our teachers struggle in the street for a decent wage. Sad and crazy people. Glad I do not live in CA.
How about if Lebron James joins the picket lines. He is very much into education, these days.
You are a racist, Hispanic American are true Americans
@11:44 sadly those scabs will be better educators than MOST nyshitty school teachers! stand with the Californian rank and file at least they have the balls to walk.
Anon 2:28
Leabron James is more involved with charter schools not public schools.
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How is the commment racist? The person stated that california is loaded with hispanics and that is racist? huh really ru a caravan person?
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You are a media troll calling everyone a racist
@11:44 more hispanic people is not the reason CA teachers are in the situation theyre in. You are a racist. Your comment is bad and you should feel bad.
Chaz,
I clicked through to leave a positive comment about a good post - but I am troubled that the first comment I read talks about "scab mexican teachers" - this person is intentionally sowing division among teachers.
I'm really disappointed to see this.
Jonathan
“Sad state of affairs however this is Calfornia and the days of The Beach Boys and calmly blonds are over replace with Hispanics legal and illegal” is this not a racist remark or at least the tone is.
Having illegal aliens in the school system costs money; teachers, counselors, supplies, breakfast and lunch, after school programs, supplies etc. Nothing is free. This can be worrisome to the people who pay taxes. I think "racist" has become the word of the decade and highly overused.
Teaching has dramatically changed in the past 30 years. I do not think that public sector jobs were ever meant to be lucrative. There was an understanding that the salaries would be low in exchange for stability, mediocre education, medical benefits and a pension. With added money comes added responsibility, expectations, blame, paperwork, nonsense, etc.
I am sure that I am not the only teacher in NYC or LA who would forgo a raise if all the useless, yet time consuming initiatives in the public schools would stop: Danielson's, restorative justice, PD, workshops, countless training for this and that, consultants, culturally responsive education, differentiation, grouping, 5-page lesson plans for each lesson, unit modification plans, lesson modification plans, meetings, countless "teams" in every school (and I am sure there is plenty more stupidity I have left out), all those suits between Tweed and my school went back into the classroom or quit, and the millions spent on these went back to the taxpayers. Just writing about all this stupidity makes me annoyed.
11:44 is stating FACTS. IT IS NOT RACIST TO STATE THE TRUTH. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE
BUT IT IS THE TRUTH.
@6:23 When people in this country badmouth teachers they are specifically thinking of people like you. You're essentially saying I will take less money to do less work. That it's fine to get less pay because we're expected to do a bad job. You should quit and never interact with children again.
Also, this statement, "Sad state of affairs however this is California and the days of the beach boys and cally blondes are over replaced with hispanics throughout the state, legal and illegal" is explicitly racist and repeats the white genocide nonsense that white people are being "replaced". If you agree why don't you go march the next time there's a rally in Charlottesville?
Yeah millions of uneducated people no matter where they are from are always beneficial. Not! As the us becomes more and more dependent on technology to perform simple and complex job functions it is suicidal to allow millions of lower skilled workers into the economic and social mix. Nothing about a persons ethnicity it’s about economics
@9:28 I don't disagree with your point. What I disagree with is when people wax nostalgic about "Cally blondes"and complain they're being replaced by "hispanics". That is when an economic argument becomes a racist argument.
Frankie five boroughs from 97 radio said its not racism
Oh well thank god. I guess a complex and nuanced issue is solved because some disc jockey stated his opinion on it.
That’s why I didn’t mention ethnicity but the people coming are of a certain ethnicity. So your telling me if I had mentioned low skilled Hispanic immigrants the statement you agreed with would be racists? And as a white citizen I am being replaced at a very quick pace. I’m being replaced by people of a certain ethnicity, education level and culture. I’m not saying this is wrong or I feel afraid but concerned that as a person that pays at least 40,000 to 70,000 dollars in income, property, and sales taxes I’m being replaced by someone paying much much less. How can we sustain this obvious discrepancy in tax revenue. For everyone of me you would need 5 to 10 people to make up the deficit. It could be low skilled and educated Irish or German or Italian, the ethnicity doesn’t matter it’s the economics of it. And please don’t say America has absorbed far greater numbers of immigrants in the past. Yes we have but the economics were much different. Thanks for the thoughtful and respectful dialogue.
Ethnicity doesn’t matter it’s the economics of it I agree but the statement “calmly blond” changes this into a racist statement.
Ethnicity doesn’t matter it’s the economics of it I agree but the statement “cally blonds”changes this into a racist statement.
No one commented on the LA teacher strike and the ills of the strike and what the teachers are going through... yet just about every comment was concerned about racism and that the comment was racist u poor babies....sad sad sad
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