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mandatory meetings
By Carolyn

I hear you! I was told at the end of last school year that I would be REQUIRED to attend a two-day computer workshop training session during the months of June or July (my choice of either!). Of course, I wanted to choose
neither, since that was my free time. It seems that a lot of people in my district felt as I did, so they didn't attend, either. I found out that the sessions would be rescheduled for the month of September (makes sense), and we would take off two days with a sub in the classroom to attend. I guess that what they wanted was to eliminate the time out of the classroom and subs ($$$).

I believe our teachers were compensated $55 a day for attending the sessions.

Yes, I can believe it. My principal asked that we, the classroom teachers, have our classrooms ready for our parents' night, which was actually the first contractual day back. How were we supposed to have our classrooms ready before the first contractual day unless we came in beforehand? Of couse, we all knew the answer to that question. Come in before the first contractual day. All of the teachers were opposed to this idea of being told that they HAD to come in before their first contractual day. They hadn't minded coming in on their own time when they wanted to. He also told us that we had to have a letter to parents to welcome their children before our first contractual day back. What also was a problem was that he took up all day Monday and Tuesday for staff meetings when school started on Thursday. Not much time to get ready for school.

You probably don't want to rock the boat on this one. I don't have much seniority in my present school, either, nor do I have tenure. I allow the "senior" teachers to do the bellyaching. You will just have to do the same.