“Fact is the Ridgewood’s school rankings have been on a downward slide for a while now, before COVID. Fact is when the schools closed last year, many kids slipped in their performance relative to benchmark because teachers weren’t able to get the kids to thrive in those circumstances (not the teachers fault per se, but some were notably disengaged). Fact is there are some awesome teachers and great educators who can pivot under any circumstance, but unfortunately the fact is there is no shortage of those that can’t. Fact is the rate of transmission in NJ, Bergen County, and specifically Ridgewood are all materially down since the peak, with only a miniscule number or new cases in the last month. Fact is parents aren’t paying taxes for full time teachers to teach part time. Fact is if all-remote implemented, there is a plethora of excess teachers/administrators that can be furloughed until school resumes normal operations, yet the fact is no such plan was ever contemplated.
Fact is the truth sometimes hurts when pointed…”
Fact is the numbers have been so down because Governor Murphy has been cancelled. Fact is your ridiculously high taxes still don’t make for a decent teachers salary, so don’t act like all your taxes go to teachers. Fact is children are resilient and don’t need to be at a certain marker at a certain age, they can and will catch up.
I agree with the furlough. Lots of office staff should go. They are not as effective working from home.
The teachers are not working part time. Stop spreading disinformation
Maybe that is just projection by a person who is not doing his/her job from home.
Teachers are putting in more hours than ever. I am qualified to be a sub but would never take that on in this environment.
The teachers want the money not the work. 25% of the teachers want to go to in classroom teaching but 75% follow the Piper. Try having the teachers teach from school without the students. Then you will see a real uproar.
Teachers travel all over the state during this pandemic including shopping, to the beach, etc. Now they are afraid to go to work. They also want the school’s to pay for daycare for their kids. All of a sudden they are prone to this virus starting September.
Teaching Jobs are the jobs to have. Where else can you get a full salary for doing a third of the job. They just don’t care about the kids.
Even if we agree that teachers work as much as the average worker, they are only working 10 months out of the year and those are 6 hour days, not 8 hour days.
And lets not talk about “teacher prep time” done before and after their 6 hour day, that is canceled out by the “overtime” done by the average worker before and after their 8 hour day.
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The standard work day is 8 hours.
The standard number of work days per year (excluding 12 mandated holidays and 2 weeks vacation) is 238 (239 on leap years)
This results in 1906 hours per year (238.25 x 8 = 1906).
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The standard school year is 180 days of instructional time (excludes holidays)
This results in 1080 hours per year (180 x 6 = 1080)
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SO…
Assuming teachers work “just as hard” as other workers in any given hour,
Teachers still work only 57% as much during the year as other workers.
Given a teching and non-teaching job with the same annual pay, teachers hourly rate is much better and they usually get better benefits and the summer off
…but they continue to whine.