I was hard on the Bush Admin. for No Child Left Behind because it was a stupid law. I need to be equally hard with the current executives running our schools for their equally stupid left wing insanity.
Considering that schools are low on money, SFUSD recently hired Health Coordinators to make sure that schools remain healthy. In addition to cutting off all sweets on campus (including those that the teachers might bring in their own lunches or might buy for celebrations or parties - like a retirement cake, for instance) they have recently begun to institute a mandatory exercise period for teachers. After school, of course. For the good health of the teacher, of course.
Never mind the fact that most teachers work 80+ hours a week - many of these hours unpaid and overstressed - but now they have to add 1 hour a week of monitored exercise to their workload.
Only, it gets worse. Because in addition to the one hour of mandatory exercise each week that these teachers are required to do, they are also required to fill out paperwork on their exercise and submit the paperwork to the school district. Because we need to be able to verify these things, don't we?
But, you know, these teacher's salaries are bankrupting the country, so I guess they deserve everything they get. ;)
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Methinks, there's a lawsuit there. I'm surprised the union hasn't gotten involved.
Part of the fallacy of politics in California is how powerful the Teacher's Unions are. In reality, they couldn't find their nether regions with two hands and a flashlight with GPS unit attached. The Union wouldn't fight this because they probably endorse it, or have used it as a point of concession to get High School PE teachers a parking space or something equally stupid. They're pretty useless.
Teachers Unions are right there with Nurses Unions in their usefulness.
Not very.
I got no issues with Unions in "true" blue collar industries or service jobs. But if you're a degreed professional, why do you need a union?
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