Bellevue teachers talk about compensation

Bellevue teachers speak out!

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• strike
• bea
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• WEA

[arkfisher]

Being that we are a financially struggling Bellevue family we still had to pay over $60 for school supplies that were on your required supply list and as parents we give and give at every walk-a-thon and other fundraiser so you can have the tools and programs needed to teach and we can hardly afford that. I would love to own a home in Bellevue, but i have to keep renting and it isn't the nicest apartment in Bellevue. Nobody is getting paid enough for cost of living these days. Get over it!

[arkfisher]

Ask most of the parents whose children you teach if they can afford to live in Bellevue. Most of us are struggling just as bad. We rent we can't even afford to buy here either.

[CaptainWalton26]

I think you need to add the cost of living percentage on top of the 4.5...If they do bend , and give you more money, the students electives, and extra-curriculars will be slashed. Who is for the students now?

[BellevueTeacher]

No it says you can occasionally replace a lesson, modifications and adaptations can be performed as deemed necessary using professional judgment. If using the elections helps you teach objects, of course you would use it and would never be repimanded for doing so.

[huskydawg11]

They are enforcing that lessons on the curriculum web should be followed, but you can occasionally change a lesson. Since the presidential election is NO WHERE on the curriculum web, how would you occasionally make changes to a lesson that does not even exist? Apparently you have not had any colleagues in your school be put on probation for deviating from the curriculum we--yet.

[BellevueTeacher]

Once again, the district is NOT mandating daily scripted lessons.

[huskydawg11]

Well if you actually finished high school you would know how a teacher actually spends their day. I bet you wouldn't last a week.

[huskydawg11]

It isn't all about the money. If it was, the teachers would have settled for the recent 4.5% salary bump on Monday. Don't fall into the media trap. Every district in the state is carefully watching this strike because 50 districts are up for a new contract next year and hope to God that their district doesn't mandate a scripted daily lesson---nobody wants to be a robot.

[Ticonderoga76]

to Auroraborealis001 and everyone else that wants the district to give in to the Union demands: Sadly, it IS about facts and the facts are that the funding is just not there. So sit down with your friends and decide which programs you would be willing to do without. Tutorials? Football? Basketball? Student Newspaper? Are your folks willing to give up more of their paycheck for higher taxes (because god knows we're not paying enough now). Should school lunches increase 2x? 3x?

[auroraborealis001]

This isn't just about the FACTS this is about people who do amazing work and who deserve a raise, who deserve the ability to use their professional judgment and they deserve better health care benefits!! If going on strike was the only way they could be heard--which it was; they did not want to get to this state but the district wasn't budging four months ago when the teachers first brought the issue up to them--then by all means I support them 100%

[BellevueTeacher]

Also, a third of the union was not there because many people were saying we would not be voting. If those 400 other teachers had been there to vote, I am curious what the outcome would have been.

[MedinaParent]

Note that I was specific in my numbers, you were just disparaging with no facts to back up your position. Any chance you work for the Bush Administration?