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 Posted: Tue, Mar 30 2010, 9:17 am EDT Post subject: Re: Gov. Chris Christie offers more state aid to N.J. schools who freeze teacher |
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This is bogus. If he had wanted to do this he would have announced it when the aid cuts occured.
He waited until after budgets had been submitted to the counties and after public meetings. Districts have already negotiated with their unions. Had he announced this weeks ago it would have helped. Now it appears to be a political ploy. |
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| Posted: Tue, Mar 30 2010, 10:10 am EDT Post subject: Re: Gov. Chris Christie offers more state aid to N.J. schools who freeze teacher |
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| Guest wrote: | This is bogus. If he had wanted to do this he would have announced it when the aid cuts occured.
He waited until after budgets had been submitted to the counties and after public meetings. Districts have already negotiated with their unions. Had he announced this weeks ago it would have helped. Now it appears to be a political ploy. |
The NJEA is continuing the pressure and demands. We have been invited to numerous blogs, facebook sites, etc... So why should he not create an option for schools to get some money back rather than to cut programs or jobs? Should we just allow the NJEA to dictate and demand and not allow for a possible solution for the schools? Especially since the Senate and Assembly say they will not pass the budget. And yes, an immediate family member is a teacher and does not support the NJEA on this and does not support all these blogs and tactics by the union with her dollars. |
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| Posted: Tue, Mar 30 2010, 12:10 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Gov. Chris Christie offers more state aid to N.J. schools who freeze teacher |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | This is bogus. If he had wanted to do this he would have announced it when the aid cuts occured.
He waited until after budgets had been submitted to the counties and after public meetings. Districts have already negotiated with their unions. Had he announced this weeks ago it would have helped. Now it appears to be a political ploy. |
The NJEA is continuing the pressure and demands. We have been invited to numerous blogs, facebook sites, etc... So why should he not create an option for schools to get some money back rather than to cut programs or jobs? Should we just allow the NJEA to dictate and demand and not allow for a possible solution for the schools? Especially since the Senate and Assembly say they will not pass the budget. And yes, an immediate family member is a teacher and does not support the NJEA on this and does not support all these blogs and tactics by the union with her dollars. |
I agree that NJEA is heavy handed and is not really putting forth the best arguments. However, as a taxpayer -- you've got to be pissed at Christie for making our school budgets his battle ground in breaking the union. He is messing with the programs and curricula well run districts have instituted. To come out and offer more money to districts that get their unions to freeze is just another effort at union bashing and not a "real" solution. It is too late, budgets have been reformulated, they are due to the state in 2 days. Each district's union is in a unique position. Some just gave back salary increases to pay for health benefits-- some have been already frozen for years due to contract negotiations, some are about to go to negotiations, so are more willing to play the governor's game. Should taxpayers be made to "pay" for this.
Christie is trying to break the union and is doing so on the back of municipalilties. He is just throwing out inflammatory proposals that can not be meaningfully implemented. Our programs and kids safety (no afternoon buses for PHS and no where for those kids to wait for a ride??? this is not safe.). |
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| Posted: Tue, Mar 30 2010, 4:28 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Gov. Chris Christie offers more state aid to N.J. schools who freeze teacher |
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| I'll agree with inconvenient and worth paying for, but unsafe? Aren't these the same high school kids who asked to be dropped off in Princeton on friday and saturday nights? |
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| Posted: Tue, Mar 30 2010, 5:04 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Gov. Chris Christie offers more state aid to N.J. schools who freeze teacher |
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Aren't these kids still at school since they are there for school activities? Aren't they hanging around waiting for the bus as it stands today?
I agree I don't see the danger. I see the inconvenience for parents having to arrange rides. However, I don't see it as less safe. |
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