"Vista Teachers are acting like spoiled brats!"

One of our angry friends on the North County Times blogs this morning is calling VUSD teachers 'spoiled brats' (Oside Mom 6:06am) for deciding to work only the hours that they are paid for. Another accuses some teachers of just being there "for the money" (Plain Truth 7:18am) A third compares a teacher's job to a twenty four hour a day job in a war zone. (Bearinaboat 7:21am).

Read all their baseless, false and hate filled comments here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_cc1c03d6-1dad-5782-808e-d395c822905c.html?mode=comments

Ridiculous! No one ever goes into education for money. No one. The teachers are NOT doing this for more pay. They have already twice accepted pay cuts. They are making this hard choice for their student's benefit. To make sure that the increased class sizes necessary for the next couple of years are not made permanent. Wow, how evil, NOT!

Outrageous! To insult teachers who feel cornered into this action. The two week gentle pressure on the district will be horribly difficult for our conscientious VUSD teachers. They will be terribly stressed by not being able to finish all the regular classroom work and Bales Busy Work in their paid hours during a school day. They all want to stay until the job is done. Only a motivation to help children in the long run to not have permanent class sizes of forty enshrined in the contract could get teachers to make this difficult decision.

Preposterous! to compare a teacher's job to a twenty four on call military job. The job contracts, job descriptions and jobs themselves are completely different. Should we arm teachers? Should we put them in barracks at night? Should we forbid them from getting pregnant? Should we have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for teachers? Will they get the free health care benefits (TRICARE) of the military? (Offer them access to TRICARE and I bet the contract dispute would end instantly) Will they get to retire after twenty years at nearly full pay like the military? Can they shop for reduced price groceries and other items at the commissary at Pendleton? Can they use the beaches, overnight campgrounds, and golf courses reserved for military personnel ONLY? (Many of these are located in San Diego County, some at Camp Pendleton.)

GEESH LOUISE!! Don't the angry ones ever get tired of hurling hateful accusations at fine hard working public school teachers?


"Oside Mom" wrote at 6:06am, "To the VUSD teachers-you are acting like spoiled brats and are not a good example to the children."

"Plain Truth" at 7:18am writes, "I guess the parents and the community will soon find out which teacher is there for the money and which are (sic) there for the kids."

My first post to the angry comments is below.

con no more said on: May 21, 2010, 7:17 am
The teachers will be working every single hour that they are paid to work. They will be working as fast and as hard as possible to fit in as much of their nine to ten hour day into that seven and a half hours as possible.

In no other job on the planet would workers be called "spoiled brats" (Oside Mom at 6:06am) for deciding to work only the hours they are paid for.

What is the teacher's "spoiled brat" reason for doing this "not a good example for children"? Is it for more pay or even to be paid for all the hours they normally work? No. It is to keep increased class sizes from becoming permanent.

Teachers have accepted that class sizes have to go up for next year and the following year. They accepted reduced pay this year to protect K-3 class size reduction. They are accepting pay cuts for the next couple of years as well. All they are asking is to have the chance that class size increases will not be forever enshrined in contract language.

Forty children in classrooms as a permanent solution to this problem is just wrong. No one can pretend that there will be as much learning possible in classrooms of forty kids. Increasing class sizes should be a temporary fix or at least a possibility should be made available that class size can come down in years to come if funding returns.

Get Joyce Bales out! Bring in an administrator who will compromise