For the Manhattan Beach teacher/union impasse, the following
proposals will spread the responsibility and enhance respect for all parties:
Retract all pay increases for every administrator in the
district office. How hard can it be to
serve as a superintendent in a district with one high school, one middle school,
and six elementary schools? In every
contract for district staff, the salary increases must be specifically
enumerated and itemized. No more perks
or payouts.
Fire every consultant who has been hired on to “help” the
district officials to do the jobs which they were paid to do in their own
capacities. The bloated expansion of district “leadership” is wasting away the
money that belongs to the classrooms and in the service of the students and the
teachers who are educating them.
Do away with district funding for technology innovations.
Let the parent foundations or a local business donate money to fund these
resources.
Give the teachers their ten percent increase. They deserve
it.
Limit the collective bargain rights of the union. This politicking
had its place years ago, when teachers had no protections whatsoever. Current
Civil rights laws protect teachers better. Today, union representation is conflicted
and unnecessary.
End tenure for life, and replace it with a contract system with
merit pay, which will reward teachers for going the extra distance for their
students. End the sclerotic salary schedules which do not recognize excellence
but manage mediocrity or inculcate incompetence.
These compromises would enforce reform and accent accountability
for all.
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