Fayette schools to teachers: Please donate your raises | ajc.com: "School board members say if the county’s teachers would return their 2.5 percent raises, it could keep the 24,000-student system afloat. Should they all return the raises, it would add roughly $4 million to the system’s coffers.
In Monday night’s meeting, board members decided they had nothing to lose by writing a letter to Fayette’s roughly 1,800 contracted teachers asking them to voluntarily “make a donation” to the system’s financial well-being."
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Prediction: this tree will fail to bear much fruit.
1 comment:
Yup. Even people who might otherwise be willing won't "donate" their pay unless they are sure most others will donate too. No one wants to be the only sucker.
For that matter, would teachers be the only suckers in that county? If the schools are funded by the county or other local government, are any cutbacks being made elsewhere, or does everyone just assume that the teachers are overpaid anyway?
Also, it doesn't sound like the board has proposed specific plans for the money, either, so people would donate their pay in return for "trust us, we'll spend it right."
This is one situation where having a union would *increase* the likelihood of such an agreement, because collective bargaining results in specific terms that all parties must abide by.
(Here I just took a break to actually read the link, and I note that such a plan was successfully negotiated elsewhere where teachers were unionized. Fayette is not unionized. So I agree--this suggestion is likely to go nowhere.)
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