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Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Berkeley Teachers Are Really Ticked
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An Associated Press story reports that students in the Berkeley, Calif. school district aren’t getting written homework assignments, because teachers are refusing to grade work on their own time. The teachers, angry after going two years without a pay increase, are sticking strictly to the hours they’re contracted to work.
As a result, a black history event was canceled, and parents had to staff a middle-school science fair.
The action was organized by the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, which wants teachers to get a cost-of-living increase next year.
“I have stacks of papers I haven’t graded,” said Judith Bodenhauser, a high school math teacher. “Parents want to talk to me; I don’t call them back.”
Rachel Baker, who has a son in kindergarten, said: “Teachers do a lot with a little. All of a sudden, a lot of things that they do are just gone.”
Georgia teachers, do you feel their pain?
