ANTI lie: Jan O'Reilly has not turned in a time card in months

The ANTI lie in the title of this blog was found in the posted comments by the blogger calling herself, Housewife ,following the Jill Parvin Forum piece. Found here:

http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_63509623-7cf4-5259-9fb7-2817cc3670d8.html?mode=story

Here is the ANTI lie:

Housewife you are badly misinformed. You wrote, "She's not turned in a timecard in months" referring to the VTA president, Jan O'Reilly.

Here is the truth:

School teachers do not turn in time cards. Jan O'Reilly is a release time school teacher. A time card indicates punching a time card at a time clock.

If teachers used time cards and time clocks then they would get overtime when they went beyuond the 7 1/2 hour contracted day. But teachers get NO overtime. Jan O'Reilly gets NO overtime.

VUSD teachers and the VTA president typically put in 12 to 14 hour days. The extra five or more hours are uncompensated. There is no overtime and no extra pay for teachers or the president of the VTA. Too bad.

Perhaps with time cards and time clocks teachers could either get home to their families before dark or get paid for their hours of extra work. Sadly teachers as CONTRACT labor get the same amount of money no matter how many hours they work past the end of the contract day.

However, the VTA president does have to turn in a monthly time sheet indicating all of her daily (and I believe hourly) activities. When I saw it decades ago, I believe it was on a single sheet of gold colored paper. If the president failed to turn in the time sheets, she could and would be fired by district admin for insubordination.

Someone in the ANTI camp has lied to you about time cards, housewife. A word to the wise, whoever, told you this lie is not a person whose word you can or should trust again.