PatchChat LIVE at Noon: Fairfax County Teacher Workload
At noon Friday, Patch readers can join a discussion with Fairfax County teachers' association leaders and school officials to discuss what some teachers have called an unsustainable work environment.
Some Fairfax County teachers say they've seen workloads increase for a few years now — but this is the first year it's becoming what they are calling "unsustainable." And they say they want a solution sooner rather than later. Join Patch at noon Friday to talk with the leaders of two of Fairfax County's teachers' associations, along with a school board member and an assistant superintendent about some of the issues surrounding teacher workload, including state and local testing, grading and evaluation systems and new curriculum initiatives. Readers can make comments or ask questions and get live responses throughout the course of the chat. To join: Bookmark this page and return at noon Friday, or sign up for an email reminder above. At a…
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Don Joy
9:32 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
From the Heritage blog: "Where to begin? First of all, there is little that is voluntary about the millions in dues paid to the NEA every year. The NEA is strongest in states without right to work laws, and if you want to teach in a public school that is under an NEA contract in those jurisdictions (like California and New York), you must pay dues to the NEA. It is the law. There is nothing … more ›