On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:55:10 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:39:12 -0500, Jim wrote:

The lady had to lay off the teachers she couldn't afford to pay. If she
couldn't get more money budgeted to avoid the layoff, what other options
did she have?

I'm fairly familiar with situations like this living with a Union
official as I do. It's becoming more and more common to
superintendents to over hire, claim poverty, then lay off the highest
paid teachers (assuming that they don't have a contract that RIFs by
seniority rather than teaching assignment) keeping the newer lower
paid teachers to replace them.

Frankly, I think it's unethical.

If that's what she did, I agree. But, if she manipulated the budget to
get rid of crap teachers without tangling with the union for every one
of them, then more power to her.
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John H