Lay-offs are based on qualifications and seniority, in general the least senior teacher from among those qualified for the position is the one laid off. This is the contract language:
Post probationary teachers shall be laid off in the reverse order of their initial employment provided the teacher with the greater seniority is qualified to perform the available teaching assignment. In determining whether the teacher with the great seniority is qualified, the Board shall take into consideration the appropriateness of training, experience and certification of such teacher with respect to the available teaching assignment.
According to Jim Orlenko the administration has not completed the evaluation of the qualifications for all the positions that will be reduced, and so in some cases the final determination of who will be laid-off has not been made.
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sad.
How many teachers got notices?
Peter:
Can you answer this? Isn't May a little late to know whether or not you have a job for the fall? I know that for many school districts, applications to teach there were already due. So, if our teachers get laid off in May, how can they find a new job?
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Is it true, like I read in an email, that elementary strings will be taught by a middle school/high school band teacher? With no strings experience? That would be really sad.
I also heard that band teachers will be teaching strings next year. I think if this is true, you need to inform the parents who have kids in 4th and 5th grade. Personally, I would not want to pay the rental fee of at least $20 a month for my kid to get instruction from someone who is fluent in band and not strings. This was not the plan when we saved the 4th grade string program.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, but we all saved Maywood. I wonder if people really understood-what was comin down the pike.
Not to be contrarian here, but since when did anyone get to have the teacher they wanted to teach their kid's class? Random teaching/student assignments have always been a part of schools.
Yeah, but at least you knew that your random teacher was qualified to teach the class. Or you assumed so.... in this case the band folks may have no knowledge of strings whatsoever.
I have heard the experience our band teachers have with strings is one semester in college....and for the band teachers it has been a while since college. I know our band teachers are good at what they do, but should we really just assign jobs based on seniority and not what is best for our children?
I don't even have kids in strings (and the likelihood of it happening sounds even less now) and the whole thing makes me ill. Is this the way the board is getting people to sit up and take notice? (like the school district towards the state line that cut all athletics out when their referendum didn't pass...) I find this a hard pill to swallow.
16 preliminary Layoff notices have been issued, although 6 of the notifications are for a reduction in hours rather than a complete lay-off.
Finally! It's past the time to sart cutting the fat and waste in the system.
Now please reduce pay and benefits too! Bring them in line with our economic realities.
The times..., they are a changing...
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