Parents and students have more control than any group of employees

Parents and students have more power than any union in any district.

(1)The parents can join and be active in the PTA. The PTA wields tremendous power at any site. No principal is going to ignore what the PTA wants. No teacher may dare ignore a principal without fear of dismissal for cause--insubordination.

(2)Any parent can have their child moved into another teachers classroom at the school.

(3)Any parent can also chose to take their child to another public school in the district, a magnet school, or to a charter school (charters operate almost like a separate district), or even get an inter district transfer to another school district.

(4) Every child is worth thousands of dollars in state funds. No district can ignore parents who might take their children out of district schools.

In VUSD VTA has been just one small part in our community's long struggle against extremist who do not support public education. The teachers and the ever changing union leadership have given hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours after a long hard day of work to getting a school bond passed and electing board members who respect FACT based education.

VUSD is the better for VTA and its brave and courageous members.