“Furlough Fridays” a Sickening Reminder of Teachers Union Priorities
by Kyle OlsonNow we have “furlough Fridays.”
What more is it going to take to convince the public of the pressing need to transform our schools into student-based institutions, instead of the labor-based cesspools they’ve become in recent years.
In case you haven’t heard, the state of Hawaii, facing the same type of budget crunch as other state governments, has to cut more than $400 million from its education budget over the next two years. Logically, that would lead to some teacher layoffs in a number of school districts.
But the Hawaii State Teachers Association has a better idea. It wants to adopt a four-day school week, with unpaid “furlough Fridays,” to avoid any layoffs. In other words, the teachers are willing to sacrifice one-fifth of their students’ education to keep the paychecks rolling in.
The idea is apparently catching on in other states, as well.
The union’s perogative of “no lay-offs” is clearly self-serving. Our organization, Education Action Group Foundation, which is based in Michigan, has estimated that 2,500 school layoffs in Michigan equals about a $1 million hit to the Michigan Education Association in terms of dues. When a state is talking about significantly more than that, one can see why the union doesn’t want layoffs.
In one way, the plan is sort of a breath of fresh air. In many states, union teachers are notorious for throwing their younger colleagues under the bus at layoff time, instead of accepting adjustments to their salaries and benefits so teachers with less seniority can stick around.
But this is not an acceptable alternative. As reported on FoxNews.com, the Obama administration has been pushing for longer school years, to help American kids catch up with their peers overseas. Our children clearly need more class time, not less. If schools have budget problems, cuts will have to occur, but those cuts should never be aimed at children, particularly when it comes to instructional time.
This is hard evidence that the teachers unions put their needs before the needs of the students. That’s a major, fundamental flaw in our public education system, and it has to be addressed in short order. Teachers that are willing to walk away from their students one day per week, just to keep everyone employed, are not really teachers at all. They lack dedication to their profession and they don’t belong in the presence of our children.
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Student based institutions?
Institutions of higher learning, where children will be taught math, science, language? No. it will never happen as long as UNIONS are in control. The Public School system has failed miserably. It is just another experiment in failed government burecracy. Schools are nothing more than day care centers. A place for parents to send the little urchins, so they can get a break throughout the day.
What does academia focus on? Sports. Prepare them for a career in sports, so they can grow up to be atheletes and play football.
Nobody will touch this topic. It is a "Political Football". Pardon the pun………
Student based institutions?
Institutions of higher learning, where children will be taught math, science, language? No. It will never happen as long as UNIONS are in control. The Public School system has failed miserably. It is just another experiment in failed government burecracy. Schools are nothing more than day care centers. A place for parents to send the little urchins, so they can get a break throughout the day.
What does academia focus on? Sports. Prepare them for a career in sports, so they can grow up to be atheletes and play football.
Nobody will touch this topic. It is a "Political Football". Pardon the pun………
Does anyone wonfer how much danger this places a lot of children in? How many families have both parents working? How much extra strain does this put on the State as a whole? If the teachers are willing to take a paycut in order to keep them all employed, fine but do not lessen the time schools are open. If they still want that extra day off, fine, how about 1/5 th of them off on Monday and so on. Or how about they do thier job and Teach and just buck up, it's tough on all of us, not just them.
Kan't have it both ways. Obama wants schools year 'round. Budgets are being cut and we go to short weeks. I guess he will make a Federal takeover of schools. Use the Russian template.
God forbid if our children actually learned something at school…! Well, they are learning one thing, and that's how to let your government handle all your problems for you, and that unions are actually good for everyone! It's funny to think back at when I was in school…There were no teacher union's, just teachers. And If those teachers didin't perforn, they were transfered or fired. Now adays, if a teacher is under performing, they have a union contract behind them, that shelters them from actual responsability…And if the school as a whole is under performing, we just give them more tax dollars (if you happen to be in the right district of course), because we all know that when you have a problem, you just throw money at it and it makes it all better!
I feel sorry for the children in school today…Little do they know what is in store for them when it's their turn to be productive members of society…If that still happens in todays day and age? They may just be productive members of the state by then??? Scary stuff!
When Barnie pushed fannie to make loans to people with no money down payments and no jobs to make payments, they foreclose, That dries up tax collections bigtime.
Until we have student vouchers where everyone has the right to move their children and their hard earned money to the school of their choice this situation will not end. The unions have only two thoughts: more union fees and influence with government to create more of number 1.
Vouchers will create competitiveness – this will force change. Just look what unions attempt to do to charter schools – they want to close them or turn them into union shops where they can destroy more classrooms.
In the State of CA we rank around 47th in overall education. This is abysmal. Until we quit paying more taxes to the unions (clearly it isn't going towards education) and force our elected officials (union lackeys) to provide us with our inalienable rights to spend our tax dollars on the schools we choose.
Yes and the union will begin that it isn't fair because some kids can't afford private school – but is it fair to have them graduate and they can't read or write beyond the 7th or 8th grade level because of incompetence in teachers?
Let's experiment – remove the unions for 10 years and lets check the progress of our children. My guess is that we would see our children excel.
After decadesof throwing billions down the public school rat hole what are the results, nothing, disciple has deteriorated, the drop out rate increases and we commonly have high schools grads reading at a 7th grade level. Home schooling is growing and increasing numbers of the middle class divert their incomes for private school tuition.
The NEA owns this sorry mess. The teacher's union blocks every meaningful reform measure including vouchers which would liberate the poorest most vulnerable kids for the rottenest urban public schools. And, of course, the MSM has galloped right alongside the unions in trashing an alternative voucher system freeing kids from our public school hell holes. We all know that the teacher's union and the Democrats aren't putting kids first.
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Bah, more the same, they are completely out of control.
Government is quickly becoming the largest, most powerful, anti-american, self serving criminal organization the world has ever seen.
If only we could apply the RICCO act to the government itself, wouldnt that be interesting
The Public School System and the UNIONS certainly do make the case for Private Schooling.
All roads lead to Rome……..
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Think about this when people throw health care costs and results numbers at you. This is a national disgrace.
That's only part of the story. Hawaii teachers long ago demanded time WITHIN the school day for planning. (Heaven forbid someone should work past 2:30!). Therefore, Hawaii public school children got to school for 3 1/2 days a week now.
Not entirely fair to the NEA. I mean the AFT helped too.
They both own the mess.
The creeps don't want answers. If they have a 4 day work week, they have NOT saved 20%. They may at most save a little on compensation. Many costs are fixed.
Vouchers. If they offered vouchers at 70% of actual gross expenditure per pupil, you would have plenty of money for almost all private schools.
I LOVE SARAH PALIN!!!
Just read the article in Daily Beast, thought I was gonna see some libtard ramble about how putrid she is, but to the contrary it was good. The left cannot stand her becasue she is the genuine article. In my mind she represents what we have been needing, someone out of the blue, an ordinary person, not a prep school, ivy leaguer lawyer, but a real kitchen table conservative. Common sense of the common man. It does not require an advanced degree to know that the system is broken and we do not need the people or parties that broke it to tell us they can fix it. We have heard it before! Clean out the old, tired and lame republicans, you know who they are and are too many to list here.
Just think – With only 4 school days, maybe the kids can get this figure up to 1 in 5! http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Robeson.High.School….
Just think – With only 4 school days, maybe the kids can get this figure up to 1 in 5! http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Robeson.High.School….
As much as I hate that the republicans wasted their leadership under GWB and became lib-lites and big govt. types, we do not need a new party (3rd party) we need to clean up the republican party. As much as the moderate dems are beginning to realize they lost the party of Kennedy to the left wind loons, so too have we lost our party to these multi-termed losers like McCain and Graham (start of a long list).
I have long been a conservative and spent countless hours screaming at the TV about the lunacy of what should be leaders of my party. I am through with them and the ONLY thing I grant my home state Sr. Senator McLame with having done is give us Palin. Before he mistakenly picked her (mistake to our benefit) I was feeling like I did when I had ony Bob (I have been here the longest so I deserve it) Dole to vote for.
I have never felt compelled to actively support anyone til now.
In So Cal………The public school system there SUCKS! Recently, there is a little movement by a private company that has taken over a few seriously troubled schools in the LAUSD District and have been successful. Imagine that! LAUSD has an overall reported 50% drop out rate and when the district begins to get heat from this they scream for more $$$$. Unions answer to all problems is give us more money.
The Fact, Teachers Union have been advocating for more dollars and have been receiving for many years and have produced terrible results. What does that tell me………..Unions are only effective in protecting the dead beats who can't or do not want to make a change. In addition, they say it's for the kids but ask yourself, "Is it really for the kids?"
So take your furlough days as we won't have to worry about you screwing our kids up for 1 day a week at least!
As much as I hate that the republicans wasted their leadership under GWB and became lib-lites and big govt. types, we do not need a new party (3rd party) we need to clean up the republican party. As much as the moderate dems are beginning to realize they lost the party of Kennedy to the left wing loons, so too have we lost our party to these multi-termed losers like McCain and Graham (start of a long list).
I have long been a conservative and spent countless hours screaming at the TV about the lunacy of what should be leaders of my party. I am through with them and the ONLY thing I grant my home state Sr. Senator McLame with having done is give us Palin. Before he mistakenly picked her (mistake to our benefit) I was feeling like I did when I had ony Bob (I have been here the longest so I deserve it) Dole to vote for.
I have never felt compelled to actively support anyone til now.
So do the Mom's and Dadf's that created the life. School Board meetings with 30.000 students and only 3 to 10 parents show up??? What does that say about parental involvement? Johnnie can't read??? Pass hiom to the next grade parent argues. Sally can't do math??? We will work on it over the summer, pass her to the next grade so she doesn't miss her friends. School Boards, Admins and lousy teachers own part of it but lazy parents do as well.
Well, look at the bright side – it reduces the liberal indoctrination of children in public schools by 20%
Good points rich however, they really don't care. Privatize the school system, take the Union and Board influence completely out of it and watch the student excel!
Our children don't need more class time. What they need is *quality* class time. Quality over quantity wins every time.
I live in Hawaii (at least for two more months) and my daughter goes to public school. Hawaii has earned its reputation as a socialist, union-run state. The schools don't teach music, cursive handwriting, foreign languages, but they can spend 3 hours a week on Hawaiian culture and history. The administrative overhead/teacher ratio is enormous. I have to augment my daughter's education with music lessons, math tutoring (her 5th grade teacher admits that "dis math is way ova my head.") and penmanship.
Thankfully, I'm moving back to Fairfax County, VA.
The more days the teachers take off, the less indoctrination going on. Look on the bright side.
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In Arlington, VA they have an early release day (kids out 2 hours early) every Wednesday. That's right, every Wednesday I had to leave work early to pick up my son. At least in Denver (where we live now) the early release days are only monthly.
You gotta love the dispassionate ironies of the fringe lunatic left. Case in point ! We have heard the incessant ranting from Pelosi et. al. concerning the need for COMPETITION in the greedy and undisciplined money grabbing insurance industry. By including the so-called "public option" would FORCE the insurance companies to compete against a federal pool. We all know where that would lead and the objective hidden within. HOWEVER ! !
The lunatic left ABHORS the thought of competition within the teaching profession that would improve scholastic academics resulting in higher student scores and success. And the greed of the NEA and AFT (protection of teacher salaries or less hours worked) IS PERFECTLY OKAY with them !
SUCH HYPOCRACY ! Libs = Room Tempertaure IQ's..
You hit the nail ! Before I moved to Florida I lived in a very upscale area in Michigan. There were two new schools built just before I left. As you so accurately pointed out…these were NOT institutions for student learning. These were SPORTS complexes built with three gyms, two swimming pools, 12 basketball courts, one stadium, three soccer fields, one baseball diamond and one new dedicated football practice field….you get the point.
You gotta love the dispassionate ironies of the fringe lunatic left. Case in point ! We have heard the incessant ranting from Pelosi et. al. concerning the need for COMPETITION in the greedy and undisciplined money grabbing insurance industry. By including the so-called "public option", it would FORCE the insurance companies to compete against a federal pool. We all know where that would lead and the objective hidden within. HOWEVER ! !
The lunatic left ABHORS the thought of competition within the teaching profession that would improve scholastic academics resulting in higher student scores and success. And the greed of the NEA and AFT (protection of teacher salaries or less hours worked) IS PERFECTLY OKAY with them !
SUCH HYPOCRACY ! Libs = Room Tempertaure IQ's..
The real hypocrisy of the Libs is that they would never put their kids in the rotten public schools that they condemn other to do with their edcuation policies. Go down the administration names in DC and Congress critters and see where their kids are going to school. Are Obama's kids in the DC public schools?
With every election cycle we have a more dumbed down citizenry thanks to public schools and the state sponsored media hacks with their vacuous content. A dumbed down population is easier to herd.
Education is no different than any other government entitlement. Students are the pretext for funding; but the system is designed for the benefit of the employees and bureaucrats, not the "customers".
5 days a week with more students in each classroom or 4 days a week with of school with same amount of students in each class? Which would be better?
Do you honestly think unionized English and Math teachers are pushing for high school stadiums? That stuff comes from the citizens elected to school boards and is largely a product of its conservative members. Stand in front of a classroom and then grade 75 8th grade English essays on a Sunday afternoon before pretending you know what you're talking about.
If the schools are day care centers we are very underpaid
Teenage babysitters get $2 per hour per child. Times thirty that's $60 per hour times 8 hours per day (includes grading and prep) = $480 x 20days x9 months
That's $86000. I assure you I don't make that.
You're getting a good deal for your little darlins.
Sorry darlin'
Didn't mean to hit a nerve, but it is what it is, and I'll stand on it. It is a societal problem. If I were as dissatisfied as you appear to be, I'd change jobs, or start a Day Care..
As to my getting a good deal, I paid double: I paid my taxes as a citizen, to pay for the public education of EVERYBODY ELSE'S kids, and I sent mine to Private School, so they would have a chance at success. Don't you dare come in here on your high horse, with a goddamned liberal teacher UNION attitude, and assume you are going to teach me anything.
If I could turn back time, I would have home schooled our child. They don't teach in schools – the kids come home with 4-5 hours worth of home work. We've dealt with numerous horrific teachers through the years, but they are protected and continue to "teach". A voucher system would expose the crap that the unions have forced into our educational system. Unions get richer and the students get less time being educated! How the hell can they compete in a global economy? Unions are the death of education and this country. It makes me sick and I have had enough. Can't wait for 2010 – time to clean up!
But I think I just did. You can pay for other people's kids to go to school (minus your private school tax breaks so its not exactly double) or you pay for the gates and walls and guards around your house to keep the uneducated glue sniffing masses from harming you and your property like they do in countries that have failed to provide education. Yemen, somalia and parts of south America come to mind.
Sorry I struck a nerve All Hat.
PS the next time you visit your child's private school ask them how they determine pay. "We try to stay within 95% of the pay range of public schools," Is likely the answer. Privates schools let unions pave the way for THEIR wages. I've worked for both and the public school parents are easier to deal with.
BRAVO CL ! I also paid twice for my daughters.
I've noticed that with my grandkids, little guys in grade school, all of the learning to read and do math has shifted home in the form of homework. What was the point in sending them out for the day. And to counter the rotten public schools here in Florida pre-kindergarten is paid for out of taxpayer's pockets. More money down the public school rat hole as they've loaded remedial time for their failures up front.
If we could kill off ACORN, the public school unions and the dumbed down state sponsored media hacks we just might restore this great country to a level playing field rather than further devolve into a bigger plantation for the Dem's loser victims.
The leaders of the teachers unions don't give a furry rat's backside about educating our kids. They haven't been for decades. Unions are strictly there for political purposes, especially these days. The majority of teachers I've come across in my life follow the union propaganda as a religion.
The NEA and AFT, unlike other unions, have two agendas. One, like other unions, is to be a powerful political hack for the Left. The second and more important is to mold the kids via the Leftist doctrine. They can mold the kids simply by teaching them less."No school on Fridays? We'll accept it since it will still dumb down the educations the kids get". Someone in the union leadership had to be thinking that.
Because if a school is under-performing, then it must be a money issue, not the fact that all of the teachers have tenure and don't give a crap. Same with every legislature around the country, their deficits are not a spending issue, they are a revenue generation problem (at least in California). The public schools are a microcosm of all that is wrong with government. If you throw more money at the issue, it will go away. Inefficiency is not in their vocabulary.
Unfortunately Teach, the USA has the highest rate of incarceration in teh world.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16790
Can we get our money back?
Unfortunately Teach, the USA has the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16790
Can we get our money back?
The problem is no the teachers at school. The teachers want to teach the kids and they want to work. The problem is the administrators of the schools. Why not fire 50% of the school administrators that take the bulk of the school budget, and distribute that money to the classrooms, including the teacher's pay. Our current incarnation of the public school system is more about the administrators and the union executives than it is about the actual classroom (teachers, supplies, books, students).
I went to high school with Congressman John Conyers (D-Detroit aka cesspool) in the 1970s; it was a Catholic girls school in the Detroit suburb of Farmington.
His beard/wife and disgraced former Detroit City Council member Monica was busted using her Detroit Police security detail to take her son to his private school in the 'burbs….
Public schools are great; they keep the Dem voters ignorant, and dependent; that is why 35 thousand in Detroit showed up for "obama cash—from his stash"
1. Only 16 states permit teachers' unions. Happily, Texas isn't one of them.
2. Do you vote? Do you vote in every election? Do you vote in your local school board elections?
With all our government's help, our kids are getting a third-world education.
Luckily, we can still sink lower, so let's add some more government intrusion while we still can.
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Unions destroyed the American auto market and unions have destroyed public education. Does anyone see a pattern here?
Look back in history. UNIONS destroyed the Railroads on the late 60's and 70's, and the steel industry in the 80's. The legacy costs are unsustainable.
Third party would strengthen Dems – just like Ross Perot.
I cannot scream loudly enough at the idiocy of this plan!
I cannot scream loudly enough at the idiocy of this plan!
(one whisper: except for a previous commenter's note about: less time in classroom, less indoctrination)
Unfortunately, the major problem in education is the administrations, who lack the guts to kick out disruptive kids, thuggish kids, and kids who commit crimes. They haven't the guts to tell parents to either control their kids, or get them out of their school.
And the sad thing is, the teachers are too worried about losing their jobs to stand up for what's right. There's no way they will stand up against the all powerful union…All at the cost of our childrens education…It's sickening!
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Did you ever notice that when budgets are proposed, it's always "for the children" but when cuts have to be made the children are the first ones sacrificed?
Um no. Our incarceration rate says more about the efficiency of our justice system. Do you assume that those countries are as constant as we are at implementing justice? It's likely that many more of their criminals roam the streets freely. At the same time we throw drug users and other victimless criminals in prison. Your argument? FAIL
Why do I bother you can't get a conservative to look at issues in multiple dimensions.
I FAIL?
You accuse me of assuming. I didn't, I stated a fact and cited it. That's not an assumption. Your next sentence begins with "It's likely that…. UH…that would be an assumption obviously.
And let's examine your reasoning. When I'm in the 3rd world I must protect myself from glue sniffing masses. But in the U.S. you disimss the size of our prison population because drug use is a victimless crime?
It's not often that a person contradicts themselves twice in one argument.
I FAIL?
You accuse me of assuming. I didn't, I stated a fact and cited it. That's not an assumption. Your next sentence begins with "It's likely that…. UH…that would be an assumption obviously.
And let's examine your reasoning. When I'm in the 3rd world I must protect myself from glue sniffing masses. But in the U.S. you disimss the size of our prison population because drug use is a victimless crime?
It's not often that a person manages to contradict themselves twice in one argument.
So a teacher's job should just be for the joy of teaching, and not to earn a living? I know lots of people who love their jobs, but they do them for a paycheck, not for the sheer exhilaration of working. Teachers went to college; they have bills to pay like everyone else. If they aren't compensated adequately, why would they choose that profession? Teaching is HARD. It's too bad they have to unionize to get a fair deal, but they do. They don't deserve to feel criminalized for wanting to earn a decent living.
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A "real" teacher would work that day without pay, and probably most teacher would do it if asked. The Union would have them fired. Teachers don't control the Union, the Union controls the Teachers. Case in point, after I retired(sold my business)and having a Physics/Math degree and the fact that retirement was not for me,I don't play golf. I became a High School teacher, yes,I taugh Physics and Math. I quit after one year, I loved teaching but the three hour drive was wearing me out. I did some Substitute teaching at my local school, and noticed that a course in Pre-Calculus wasn't offered. I talked to the Principal and offered to teach such a course at NO CHARGE. I live in the community I saw how I could be helpful so I volunteered. He appreciated my offer, but the Teachers' Union wouldn't go for it. Nope,no way no how. The Union would even allow to give my services for FREE. How could they collect dues from someone working for free.
Are you saying Italians are Evil because they care about the environment by planting gardens and fruit trees? I'm Italian and I do all that, and share the harvest with my friends. Everyone cares about their environment, the one you always hear about is the Extreme Environmentalist who go nuts if someone removes a dead branch from a tree.
Fair enough Yemen and Somalia have a parallel justice systems to the U.S. Sorry for my accusation about you assuming stuff. So what were you trying to say about get your money back?
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Mr. Olson,
As a Hawaii resident, I must clarify several mistakes in your blog entry.
First of all, Hawaii's Republican governor, Linda Lingle, proposed the furlough mandate on all state workers on June 1, 2009, NOT the HSTA.
"We now have a government we cannot afford," she said in a televised speech. http://bit.ly/23eZpG
Many in Hawaii believe Gov. Lingle's furloughs bear the burden of our deficit on the backs of state workers, but after weeks of deliberation, HSTA agreed to paycuts instead of facing layoffs. Had the teacher's union decided otherwise, Hawaii's classrooms would be even more overpacted than they are all ready, no doubt hurting the education of our students.
Second of all, these furloughs are not limited to just teachers. The Hawaii Government Employee Association is also being hit with paycuts and days off. This includes public school administratioin and all non-education departments. If anything, the furloughs are a right-wing tactic implimented by a Republican governor to shrink the government of Hawaii. Conservatives should be applauding the mandate, especially since there is a growing market of private childcare programs emerging in the state. It is unfortunate, Mr. Olson, but necessary at this point of Hawaii's economic cycle.
Your assesment of the the furlougs in Hawaii is flawed and misleading. As an employee of a public school in Hawaii, I can tell you now that no teacher wants to walk out on their students. But taking a paycut in addition to shortening the schoolyear is preferred. Firing teachers and administrators would do a greater disservice to students, lessening the quality of their education, and reducing their learning to a touch-and-go model.
In my opinion, YOU do not deserve to be in the presence of children if you believe stuffing sixty kids in an un-air conditioned classroom in Honolulu with one teacher is the better option. That is inhumane. The DOE would like to lengthen the school year and fortify the education in Hawaii, but until we can afford it, laying blame on teachers and their unions without any FACTS is complete spin and rhetoric.
This story made http://detentionslip.org ! Check it out for all the crazy headlines from our school.
I go for a Quality Class Education. What more about quantities while your teaching is poor in quality. For a quality teaching and paper writing service. Feel free to surf the net.
For the record, Obama has his head up his a$$, as usual, regarding the reasons behind Singapore/Asia's student supremacy. It had jack to do with the length of the school year, but quite a bit to do with the Singapore math curriculum (which I probly didn't spell correctly, apologies). But far be it from the liberal agenda to point that salient fact out.
This is a very complicated subject to understand, but there are several blogs and groups that have been fighting an uphill battle for the education of our children. I would really love to see a teacher/parent with a background in dealing with the consistent roadblocks and shutdowns they deal with from school panels writing here at BigGov. There is a Yahoo group called Where's the Math where several such individuals could be found, as well as other sites I'll list below. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wheresthemath/
Just the tip of the iceberg tho, really.
http://betrayed-whyeducationisfailing.blogspot.co...
http://www.curewashington.org/
http://usworldclassmath.webs.com/
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