Tuesday, September 22, 2009
State of Hawaii Teachers - 17 days off!
My question is why can't they work the 17 days on a rotating basis? Every school has at least 2 or more classes for the same grade. Why can't they hui together two classes and do PE days or independant study/ help days? Why do the kids have to have 17 less days of school?When I was a kid we didn't always have subsutitues, we combined classes for the day.Sadly Hawaii can't think outside the box and wants to just cut the days from the students. Who is suffering here? Our children, but then is this really about education and our children? Or is it a money thing only?
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I'm a teacher myself and feeling unheard about the situation by policy-makers inside HSTA and the public as well. I don't recall the accurate number of teachers in HSTA, but before deciding on the furlough issues, we completely gave up on streamlining the positions and people who work in DOE. I don't think the public realize that all HSTA members actually work with their children in classrooms. We have so many teachers who don't teach in classrooms. In some schools, we have 5-6 full-paid teachers who don't even have classes. Last night's ABC news ridiculed us teachers as selfish professionals...and maybe we are. Instead of looking into our organization and 'downsizing' the positions, we jumped to 'furloughs' This is a complete embarrassment.
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