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.
“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.”
I was born and raised in Madison, but the disgusting display by public sector employees over that past 4 weeks makes prior idiotic actions taken in the “Fairyland of the Dairyland” pale in comparison.
Having been a member of unions throughout my entire working career (except the Air Force....they frowned on union organization:) I have one question as it relates to the statement noted above.
The article states that schools had to be closed because teachers called in sick to attend a protest, as though one act was the logical response to the other. I would like to review their collective bargaining agreement and see for myself if attending a protest is an appropriate use of sick leave.
EODGUY
Wisconsiin parents, you need to go to every one of your kids’ teachers at the affected schools and ask, eye to eye,
Did you call in sick on these dates?
On those same days, did you see a doctor? Other than for a doctor, did you leave your home/
Did you call in sick for political reasons?
Of course, they will lie, but the point is to confront them and let them know YOU AREN’T FOOLING ANYONE.
“Why shouldn’t a student cut classes and write phony excuses? You did!”
BRILLIANT!
Clearly, the reason it is being done this way so that the teachers don’t have to add any additional days to the school year. They want the entire 3 months off.
It’s not just the students and teachers schedules affected. There are the bus drivers, the parents, sitters, the buses and pickups happening later might even affect traffic patterns.
Ask them if they’re going to pay anything toward the 7.5 million dollars in damages they did to the people’s building. I don’t know a word for beyond disgusting.
What if that doesn’t work with their parent’ work schedule? Not everyone works day shift.I think it would be much better to have school on Saturdays to teach the children a good lesson about how important it is what their teachers want! :p
Factory teachers. Factory schools.
If those teachers actually turned in excuses from the vending-machine docs after the scam was busted, then either the Super’s gave them a wink or they are so godforsaken stupid they’re hopeless.
Good that the kids are learning that actions have consequences. :)
Ha, ha!
Back in the day, the kids that went to the rally would be getting beat up by the kids that now have to stay longer at school.
Of course 20 extra minutes is silliness. They should have just added days to the end of the school year.
Don’t forget to slice off 1.8mmsec to take off for the Japanese earthquake.
Oh the humanity, oh the weeping and nashing of teeth by union thug teachers. I’m very sure these people never entertained the idea there would be consequences for their illegal, damaging and juvenile behavior. First time I ever heard a teacher’s uion wildcat strike get stomped on.
Way to go Wilson!!
Well, that was before Gov. Wilson came along. I wonder how the little darlings feel now that they’ve latched on to their teacher’s coat tails.
So the parents don’t have to pay a price for the greed of the teachers.
So the teachers cut class for 4 days, and the students get detentions? The teachers should be locked down for 20 minutes a day, not the students. It’s not their fault.
Think of it as a detention hall for teachers LOL.
ping!
Actions have consequences.
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