20minutes more, of what...
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.
“I don’t know a word for beyond disgusting.”
That would be “liberal”
You got to be kidding! 12 or 20 minutes extra each day to make up for full days missed. Do you really think the teachers are going to do anything beyond the contracted number of hours daily? They’ll stand around and pick their noses, grouse about the Governor, or otherwise waste the time.
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20minutes more, of what...
That reason alone they should be fired for being stupid!
And they want more money or they'll hold kids hostage from education?
An additional 65 minutes on the last day of school? That is just torturing the kids. What did they do wrong? And does anyone believe that there will be ANY child soaking up knowledge in that final hour? What a joke. I’m so glad I homeschool.
Maybe I’ll disappear from work for a week without an excuse, then when I show up, I’ll tell my boss that I’ll add 20 minutes to each day until I make up the time. I’m sure that will be sufficient and I won’t get fired.
Sarcasm Off: FIRE ANY TEACHER WHO DID NOT HAVE A LEGITIMATE EXCUSE TO BE OFF.
Great decision. Punish the kids for the so-called “teachers’” indiscretions and irresponsibility. These “educators” as a group need laid off. They are fools and union goons.
“So the students have to pay a price for the greed of the teachers?”
Don’t they always?
SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
Ha. Like kids care about that when they're sitting in the basement playing video games.
Teacher to Johnny...it’s Bush’s er Walker’s fault.
If I lived there and had a kid in school, you can bet I’d be there to pick him/her up at the normal time, and not let him/her stay for the extra 20 minutes the teachers’ temper tantrum inflicted in the students.
And you can bet everyday during that 20 minutes the teachers will brainwash the kids telling them they are here because of the actions of Gov. Walker.
The kids should go on strike and chant, “I was here, where were you?,” for those 20 min every single day. Parents could join in.
Sounds to me like they are doing this so they don’t have to pay sick pay to the Teachers, and don’t have to compensate them for this time, either.
I think this is a “contract” thing....and the Governor is doing the best he can within the terms of the contract. Also allows for suspension of those teachers who used fraudelent sick notes. Students also get to learn that there will be CONSEQUENCES.....20 min is NOT that much...
NO, 20 minutes isn’t that much ... our schools have done that several times to make up for extra snow days. BUT, in this case, except for the teachers’ walking out on the students as they did, those students wouldn’t have to spend an additional 20 minutes a day in class. So the kids are paying the consequences of the teachers’ actions. Somehow that doesn’t make sense to me.
I understand that the authorities (I think this is the Madison School District, not the gov) are trying to do the best they can. It is the teachers and their union who put them in this position..
And, I understand this IS Madison, so the kids were probably there protesting with the teachers. Most of the Madison parents probably are far to the left of any classroom teacher. So my sympathy is limited in that regard.
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