Re: Unpaid Mandatory Volunteering--Help!
    Posted by: Curious on 1/03/15
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    On 1/02/15, vandoren3 wrote:
    > I wonder what your campus administrators know about
    teacher
    > work rules in your state. I wonder if they care. Mine didn't
    > during my career which ended last June.
    > I hope that you will consult an attorney to discover the
    > answer(s) to your question(s).
    > Do you think that the project proposed by your campus
    > administration is worth while? If it is, how might you and
    > others of your colleagues help to make the project a success
    > for the students and school community?
    > I'd love to hear back from you with more details.
    > Good Luck!

    As I said I volunteer for causes that I support. I raise money and
    food for the local Christian food pantry. I help the local no-kill
    animal shelter. But I also have my own family, my own kids.
    This is just for publicity-although the vaunted claim is that it is
    for unity. I'm not sure what the rules are in our state, but I'm
    going to ask my association what they think. My school has
    become one of those where if you don't contribute to United
    Way when the drive happens or you don't support the local
    foundation or you don't join PTA, you're seen as some sort of
    outsider. I didn't join PTA because frankly the organization
    does nothing for my department or for me as a teacher. I have
    joined in the past only to have all requests ignored. It's just a
    very uneasy feeling I get that if I don't just go along with every
    venture the building team comes up with, I'm viewed as
    someone causing trouble. I have an aging parent and family of
    my own. Do I not deserve to say how I use my weekends?


    Posts on this thread, including this one

  • Unpaid Mandatory Volunteering--Help!, 1/02/15, by Curious.
  • Re: Unpaid Mandatory Volunteering--Help!, 1/02/15, by annie.
  • Re: Unpaid Mandatory Volunteering--Help!, 1/02/15, by vandoren3.
  • Re: Unpaid Mandatory Volunteering--Help!, 1/03/15, by Curious.
  • Re: Unpaid Mandatory Volunteering--Help!, 2/03/15, by PsyGuy.