Third in a series
Re “Why the Aroused Barrels of Animus Against UPCC?”
[img]1994|left|Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin||no_popup[/img]Why has the persistent scurrilous charge of anti-teacher bias shadowed the parents union, United Parents of Culver City, like a second layer of skin, from birth 17 months ago?
“In my mind,” said Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin, UPCC’s president, “let me put it this way.
“I am a theatre producer. I read plays and I study what happens.”
[img]2189|right|Scott Kecken||no_popup[/img]“It is easier to be negative,” spoke up Scott Kecken, the chair of UPCC political action committee.
Nodding in agreement, Ms. Wisnosky Stehlin added, “Easier to be negative than positive. It’s a better sound bite, to come up with a rumor or a lie than to actually take the time to find out what the truth is.”
She paused briefly.
“Maybe it is that people have not done their homework. I don’t know. I cannot answer why people would say something that is not true. Only they know.”
Of the Teachers Union where, some say, animus against the UPCC is rooted, Mr. Kecken said:
“I would like to think of them as partners.”
Does the Teachers Union think of the UPCC that way?
“I don’t know,” he said. “Maybe. In time. I have worked with Dave Mielke and Debbie Hamme on CBAC for the past two years. Collectively, we came up with three areas where we thought budgets should be prioritized. One was on salary increases for faculty and staff, and they already have done that. But there are two others that haven’t been addressed, facilities and preparing for Common Core next year.”
(To be continued)
