Teachers Protest At School Board VP's Home

[proud2BlibKansan]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City, Mo., teachers protested outside the home of school board vice president Arthur Benson Monday night.

The teachers' union said it is frustrated over the limited progress in contract negotiations and classroom proposals presented by district negotiators.

"Without question, Arthur Benson is the primary roadblock to settling the teachers' contract," AFT Local 691 President Judy Morgan said in a news release. "It's really the district proposals that are wrong for students and wrong teachers. These proposals would hinder student learning and the ability of teachers to teach by reducing planning time, removing limits on interruptions to classroom time from PA announcements; and eliminating language that prevents favoritism and cronyism in assignments and transfers," Morgan said.

Teachers have been working without a contract for the past five months.

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Teachers Take Dispute To Board Members' Homes

Teachers in Kansas City are in their fifth month without a contract. Now the group is taking its dispute to the doorstep of school board members. Teachers were demonstrating Monday night outside board member Arthur Benson's home.

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[gordianot]

1. The only district more chaotic in Missouri is St. Louis.

Spend some time in the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and you will understand why there are so many problems in the 2 large urban districts.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I give up

What's the problem with DESE?

[gordianot]

3. Sometimes they sound good. They are still run by the good old boy network.

Mostly semi retired administrators who stick their head in the sand and/or operate on "Let's make a deal". No one stays long enough in KC and St. Louis to affect a change. Those who land there are part of the old boy/girl network. They despise and reject any real community involvement. For the most part DESE is 30 years behind the times. Bureaucracy at its worst. Failure is a self fulfilling prophecy for the urban districts it keeps the riff-raff and failed administrators in jobs.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I'd have to agree

They also don't have the power they think they have.