Re: Prepayment Changes for 2012-2013

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On 1/10/12, In NC wrote:
> Off post topic...but in reply to comments made by the OP...
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> Any time we complain about all the extra hours we have to put
> in (this year...on ELECTION DAY, we had parent/teacher
> conferences after school until 6:30, and then "Family Health
> and Fitness Night until 8:30 - and one year, the week before
> Thanksgiving we had a faculty meeting Monday afternoon,
> parent/teacher conferences Tuesday afternoon, and a
> professional development session Wednesday afternoon)they
> point to the area in our contract that says "and other duties
> as assigned" and we're basicly told to shut up, or quit
> (because there are hundreds of people that would kill to have
> our job).

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Yep. Agreed.

But their memories are very short indeed.

It wasn't long ago that they couldn't find teachers, particularly
for those "hard to fill" positions like SPED, ESL, physics, math
and general science.

The lean times we are in won't last forever. There are already
signs that things are starting to turn around. That, coupled
with the reality that a lot of us "boomers" are going to be
retiring in the next few years and the fact that new teachers
don't tend to stay long, particularly when reality hits them
square in the nose, and there will be another critical shortage
in North Carolina.

The "suits" might be haughty and full of themselves right now,
but as the old addage goes....."what goes around, comes
around....." and they're settting the children of this state up
for a mighty fall.

shame on the

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