Re “And the Big Schools’ Winner Is…”
The Culver City Federation of Teachers has called for negotiating a new raise in their District salary schedule so that members would end up earning the median salary of other L.A. County teachers in the next five years.
What If?
If this is going to be a new, short-term salary goal for the Culver City USD, it makes me wonder whether the Teachers Union would have this same objective in mind if the Culver City USD, historically, had paid and still was paying its teachers above this same median salary?
Oh, You Are Too Kind
Would they give back part of their salaries? Or is this arbitrary setting of the salary bar just a more tactful, subtle way for the union to publicly ask for a 10 percent raise over the next five years?
Skeet Shooting
Should we even consider using this median salary figure as our District goal? Would it not turn out to be an ever-increasing, ever-changing, moving target since other L.A. County districts re-negotiate new salary schedules with their own employees?
Self-Determination
Should we, as a community, let other unified districts determine what we do here in Culver City? Do we want other districts directly dictating how much our School District pays its employees?
Negotiating Made Easy
We should not let our elected representatives forego one of their basic decision-making responsibilities by turning it over to other district negotiators to make tough salary decisions for them.
No matter how cankerous or frustrating our District salary negotiations may have seemed in the past, they still should remain an issue to be settled, amicably, within our own District.
Mr. Laase may be contacted at GMLaase@aol.com
