"Jim" wrote in message
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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.
Might be as you say but I thought this particular layoff was due to budget
cuts. Ethics doesn't play a big part in modern day life. School boards
must realize that they sometimes need to take drastic measures to prevent
unions from running their school systems. Fight fire with fire, if you
will. I mean no disrespect to your wife, but I do not have empathy for or
support unions.

Then there are the unions that have taken over the school board. Happened
in San Ramon , CA a few years ago. Financially stable school district and
the teachers union ran and go elected as a majority of the board a bunch of
teachers. Passed large raises, etc. 3 years later the school district was
bankrupt. The union should have been sued for fraud.