Liberals say that we should pay public school teachers as much as basketball players. And they have a point. We should pay them like the Washington Generals. Or any team whose players consistently fail to meet their expected standards.
This from frontpage.com.
Instead, here’s the reality:
Fresno Unified School District’s first contract proposal presented Thursday to the Fresno Teachers Association includes an 11% salary increase over the next three years that would be contingent on state funding.
The district had previously agreed to pay 100% of health care premiums for individuals. Families of three or larger would pay a monthly premium of $260.
The current average Fresno Unified teacher salary is $90,512, and teachers also receive benefits, retirement contributions, stipends, and additional pay for coaching or other duties that raises the total average compensation to six figures, the district said in a news release.
What results are the taxpayers receiving for this exchange?
In the overall Fresno Unified test results for 2022, 32.24% of students met or exceeded the state standard in English, while 67.75% did not, a change of -5.76% from 2019. In math, 20.82% of students met or exceeded the state standard, with 79.18% not meeting it: a change of -9.03% from 2019.
‘Pay More, Get Less’ is the name of the hosing taxpayers will be given.
In their insane greed, the Fresno teachers’ union is going on strike to demand free yoga:
The Fresno Teacher Association is demanding the Fresno Unified School District allow homeless families to park their cars in high school parking lots and to provide paid security in the lots, which they say will cost $500,000, according to a contract proposal obtained by the Free Beacon.
The union is also pressuring the district to provide free yoga and meditation programs, which they project will cost $1 million, part of which includes reimbursing union members up to $1,000 a year if they consistently do things like attend a dojo or do yoga for at least 100 days.
In addition to $1.5 million for allowing homeless encampments and free yoga, the district is also pushing for “expanded cultural awareness lessons in all schools starting in PreK.”
But 79% of students don’t meet math standards. 67% don’t meet English standards.
Final thoughts: The state should require educational awareness lessons and with a psychologist’s endorsement, make yoga and meditation mandatory at teacher expense until teacher attitudes and student performance both markedly improve.
Unions served a purpose one hundred and fifty until approximately seventy-five ears ago. But more recently, unions have accomplished more negative than positive.
Apropos to this article, Municipal teachers’ unions have destroyed public school education and they are only getting started. One viable way to stop this nightmare is to open up the system with school choice so that taxpayers are no longer being held hostage by unions that fail to educate children, rather they constantly demand more and more.
