I hate to be a flip-flopper but as usual - things are not as they seem.
Yesterday - after much speculation, stories and gossip spreading around the building, I went and spoke with a person that I trust to give me the real poop. Among many things it seems that the collection of signatures being gathered was more about standing strong as a building for our administration against two specific board members out to break the union/district apart. Seems the goal of these two (and possibly 3) board members is to oust most of the administration from the district so they can pack it with administrators that will be on their side of the tea cup. It leaves me in a bit of a quandary because knowing this, I would rather stand with a united staff than not. I don't want to seem that I support this vicious and hurtful board than not who spread lies and gossip. I would rather do what I can to end the negativity and show the community that we as a staff stand strong for their kids.
There's so much more to this whole thing but not enough time to type it up. Regardless though, as a proud union member, I plan on doing all I can to keep my district from falling into the hands of people who think it would be best run like a business. I fear for my district and the teachers and I guess at this point, if we "younger" teachers don't start getting involved, we won't have room to bitch when we've had our pay cut 20%. UGH!
K - happy Friday...Banquet tonight...YAY! Date night with Diane!
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