In part 2 of the deal where we get two days added to summer in exchange for over two billion dollars in givebacks, the city has agreed to change the school calendar for next year so that the day we return to work, September 8, 2009, will be a day when the students will not be in attendance. However, Monday, June 28, 2010 will be an instructional half day, instead of the originally scheduled professional development day.
Part of the agreement between City Labor Commissioner James Hanley and Randi Weingarten states that our first day will be “first and foremost for preparation of the classroom and for the arrival of students.”
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And Friday June 25 which was originally a half day now becomes a full day. So it adds up now to one day. Nothing like being the only school system in the nation to be teaching on June 28.
Anyone actually think Principals will let teachers use that Tuesday for “first and foremost for preparation of the classroom and for the arrival of students.”
We need to get rid of Unity! The members have a problem with the denial of the right to vote on this big giveaway.
Is there something illegal in what was done here?
It's mind boggling what the membership will accept. This is a microcosm of the rest of American society, as we lose hard won gains and there's barely a peep from the losers.
To Anon 10:00pm.
My sentiments exactly. People seem to be asleep while all these things are being taken from them. They ae either indifferent or maybe they are "shell shocked" and just do not know what to do. People should be screaming in my opinion, and there should be massive rallies going on about all these injustices.
I can't say for sure, but my guess is that 99.9% of summer camps start on June 28th. Personally, if I have to go into school anyway, I'd rather look at the kids than listen to administrative crap.
I laugh at the concept of that being an "instructional day", however. Anybody who would even dare say that has clearly NEVER been inside a school during the last few days of June.
Isn't it now fourteen years to go now that this year is over?
Surely, June 28, 2010 won't be a teaching day in the high schools, will it?
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