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Rhode Island Fires ALL 74 of It's High School Teachers

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Rhode Island District Fires All 74 of Its High School Teachers

This a major problem If the children are failing then sometimes it takes a radical move like this to get the necessary results.

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  • yokeyoke Posts: 1,440
    one of the things that I read the other day and this story doesn't say but it was the Union leaders that turned it down. This is coming from a district were the average income is 20-30k a year and the teachers are making 60k.
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  • TravisTheSkyTravisTheSky Posts: 615
    Tee hee! I think you mean that ONE SCHOOL IN Rhode Island fired all 74 of its teachers. I know the state is tiny, but come on..... 74 teachers for one million population makes for one hell of a huge class size!

    I recently spent 13 years living in North P, one of the border cities of tiny Central Falls. Central Falls was known as being pathetically poor with joke schools. I remember local politicians bragging that the school district generously provided breakfast as well as lunch to it students because many kids would otherwise eat nothing. I hope this fire to re-hire scheme helps, but I think the town has monumentally huge socioeconomic problems in all areas of life.
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  • Model Roll ModelModel Roll Model Posts: 215
    You spelled "its" wrong in title.
    FYI.
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,497
    Model Roll Model wrote:
    You spelled "its" wrong in title.
    FYI.


    Well at least I now know that "The Far Side Of The Sombrero Galaxy" is in Rhode Island. ;)
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  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    I always thought teachers had the best of both worlds when it came to jobs. They seem to be viewed as a professional type job similar to doctors, lawyers, dentists and engineers. But with those professional type jobs the more experience you get the harder your job gets. A doctor or lawyer with 10 years of experience is going to be taking on harder cases. A teacher with 10 years experience, especially if he is teaching the same grade, will probably have an easier time teaching year after year since all he really has to do is refine that lesson plan that he wrote back in year one and two.

    On top of that unlike say lawyers or dentists, teachers get all the benefits of a union. So if that doctor or lawyer mentioned above wants to make more money he has to work harder and take on harder cases or specialize his skills and be good at his job. If a teacher wants to make more money all he has to do is show up and not do anything that could get him fired (ie don’t molest the kids) and the union will take care of the rest, getting him automatic raises, and all sorts of other benefits.

    This is why I find it hard to take teachers seriously when they complain about their low pay, or how hard their job is.
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