Posted on 03/14/2011 4:51:31 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Students in the Madison School District will have up to 20 minutes of additional classroom time each day starting Monday to make up for four days canceled last month because teachers were attending protests.
Because no additional days will be added to the calendar, most teachers will not receive additional compensation for that time, district spokesman Ken Syke said.
Madison schools were closed to students Feb. 16-18 and Feb. 21 because a significant number of teachers called in sick to attend protests against a state proposal to limit public employee collective bargaining. Gov. Scott Walker signed it into law Friday.
The School Board reached an agreement with Madison Teachers Inc. over the weekend that allowed the district to set the makeup calendar. The agreement also ensures teachers with unexcused absences will not be paid for those days and that teachers who submitted fraudulent sick notes will be suspended.
The district has not yet released the number of teachers that missed school to work those days. The district received more than 1,000 sick notes, including some from doctors who were handing them out at the Capitol protests, assistant legal counsel Matt Bell said.
The Department of Public Instruction requires schools to have a specific number of days and hours of instruction during the school year. The extra time will be added to the end of the school day and vary between elementary, middle and high schools:
• Elementary schools will have 20 minutes added per day, a full day on March 29, rather than a half-day, and 65 minutes added on the last day of school, June 10.
• Middle schools will have 12 minutes added per day, including Wednesdays, which will replace professional collaboration time.
• East, West and Memorial high schools will have 15 minutes and La Follette High School will have 18 minutes added. Those will be on top of minutes already added for a Feb. 2 snow day. The last day of school will be a full day instead of half-day.
...wonder how the brainwashed little brown shirts feel about this....YOU CAN THANK YOUR TEACHERS nitwits!
So the students have to pay a price for the greed of the teachers?
BOGUS doctors giving BOGUS notes...
-- to BOGUS TEACHERS!!!....
Dont get me started....
For the teachers who abandoned their posts, may the 20 min seem like 20 hours.
20 more minutes of non learning...
Every one of these lying little sh*ts should be fired.
And these lying cheats claim they should have care of our children?
Laws and morals apply to all of us, but NEA members can do anything they please.
Those Wisconsin teachers are SO fortunate I’m not a student there. My first question to them when they got back in the classroom would be, “So where’s your credibility now? Why shouldn’t a student cut classes and write phony excuses? You did!”
I love how we’re supposed to think an additional 18 minutes a day for two weeks, or whatever it is, is going to somehow magically make all the difference in what kids learn.
Our schools almost freely admit that all grading is submitted by the 3rd week of May, yet school is in session at least til the 2nd week of June. Most of that time is filled with things like “School Spirit” Day, Game Day, Field Day, Movie Day, or some other Garbage Day. Isn’t it time we do away with the legally required 180 days and worry about what the heck our kids are actually learning?!?!
Zackly...what are they going to learn in 20 minutes? BS, they should be doing full extra days and let the teachers take the heat for it.
I hope the little crumb-crunchers spread the word through the halls as to just why they are staying an extra 20 minutes in school on nice spring days and who exactly who it was that caused it.
And I hope they make those extra 20 minutes a living hell for the teachers that the students know walked out on their jobs.
The teachers will reserve those 20 minutes + 10 more to rant about the governor, the fact that the principal won’t reimburse them for $20 of construction paper, blah, blah...
that is the sign of a classless, incompetent school administration.
Continuing the progressive indoctination for twenty minutes longer. The kids would be better served leaving 4 hours early.....
Wow! A whole 20 minutes. So much learning can take place!
What this all realy means is that the district still wants the federal money it would lose. Bunch of hypocrites! We’ve had to do the same thing in Texas for 4 days lost due to extreme freezing weather.
Fire every teacher who either can be shown protesting in public on a sick day OR who fails to profuce proof of illness. You don’t just get to skip work on a lie then “make it up.”
Now all those working parents get to shift their afterschool schedules ... just toaccommodate these selfish inion goons.
Forget it. Fire them all with the exceptions noted.
I wish I was in school again. I’d make those minutes seem like hours.
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