Central Falls High School
Every union in the United States of America will be busted in time. Unions really built the middle class. If it wasn’t for unions all wages would have been kept low for most people. When a union goes into a community it puts pressure on other companies to up their wages in order to recruit good workers and also to include things like health insurance. Since Ronald Reagan it has been fashionable to bust the unions. He busted the air traffic controllers. It’s been down hill ever since for anyone belonging to a union. Today I think there are only about 8% of the people that even belong to a union. The next unions to take the hit are going to be the teacher’s unions. They are going to be busted. The government is doing everything they can to talk about the poor quality of teachers, which really is bogus. Teachers are more qualified today than they ever have been. They have degrees that include a major in the area they are teaching. Many have other things they bring to their teaching experience whether it is other work experiences or even travel experiences.
Today I came home and saw this on the news. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/24/rhode.island.teachers/index.html?hpt=T2
The Superintendent stays and every teacher, principal, etc. is fired. This is incredible. If you read the article you will see that they have made some gains with testing. The trouble was in the negotiations. This is a drastic move by the board of education. I know I wouldn’t want my child to go to this school. They care so little for the children that they will expose them to an all new crew. They may hire up to 50% back but who knows who the “chosen” ones will be. Probably the ones that keep their mouths shut and don’t ask any questions or rock the boat in any way. Any one with a brain knows that not all of these teachers fired are poor teachers. Maybe none of them are as it is a largely Hispanic community where English is a second language. NCLB has very difficult standards of testing for these new English learners. It amazes me that they expect so much from them so quickly. Our Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, applauds this move. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433×195524 This shows me where Obama stands on the issue of unions. When the government wants to go into communities and fire teachers and staff and then create a new or charter school in its place that is all about destroying public schools and unions. I cannot be convinced that this is a great move for this community. I know how I feel about my students and I know how hard I work each and every day to help students find success. I don’t believe this school in Rhode Island doesn’t have hard working, talented teachers that just got fired!
As I was looking online I came across this. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://newsblog.projo.com/mocchi_poster.jpg&imgrefurl=http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/08/funeral-set-for.html&usg=__bxvIHLt5FbMjPvVznexbC1TmHRo=&h=341&w=512&sz=58&hl=en&start=5&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=GgLaNIjFpBvt6M:&tbnh=87&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcentral%2Bfalls%2Bhigh%2Bschool%2Bteachers%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS231US233%26tbs%3Disch:1 This school started the year with tragedy, a well liked teacher died in a crash and now their going to lose all of their teachers. Wow, this school is in crisis and these poor kids are being treated like just a bunch of numbers on a score card for testing!
