The teachers are pushing for it because their union sees full-day K as a boondoggle and a chance to have more full-time REA members who will push for above 2% wage increases, and additional cuts to healthcare and pension contributions in 2018 when the new contract expires. It’s all a REA/NJEA plot. Has NOTHING to do with our kids. Also remember, it’s not just extra salaries for all-day K… its pensions, platinum healthcare, tenure, etc. It’s a bit like how the police union vehemently defends the RPD’s “extra duty” practice for PSE&G and Verizon as no added cost to rate payers and taxpayers… of course it shows up in your monthly statement and in the RPD budget for both fueling and depreciating their vehicles. Really folks, when the union wants it, it’s BAD for taxpayers.
Well put.
Teacher salaries and benefits are always threatening to displace other priorities due to the 2 percent cap to budget increases.
Moving from half day K to full day K bumps us just that much further along that path.
We really don’t need to help the REA increase their leverage going into the next round of contract negotiations–which starts next year!
Vote NO!
Yannone said that their morale ws low after the negotiation. I hope that they get back to work.
Mike Yannone needs to go, he’s a cancer
I’m also voting No.
REA members are a bunch of entitled thugs
Agree and will vote No. The teachers’ morale was low before the negotiation – look how poorly they behaved. What a sad example Ridgewood teachers set – using our kids as pawns. I wish the whole lot of these whiners were sacked and replaced by educators who would appreciate what our school system offers!
11:11 – Mike Yannone is one of the most well liked and respected teachers at the High School by both students and parents. Please stop with YOUR cancer.
8:12, are you or a family member an REA or NJEA member?