Tardy Teacher Wtih 111 Latenesses Still Has Job & 90k A Year

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A teacher with 111 latenesses over 14 years still has a job and pay of $90K per year.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/29/tardy-teacher-nj/71384446/

Either the district is ignoring or botching discipline or it's a lop sided contract favoring the union.

That's about 8 lates a year. In most private companies you start getting warnings after the second one and discipline of some kind by the third. Should add it could be like in Animal House-double secret probation.
 

90K per 10 month year. If my math is right that's 9k per month, $2250 per week, $450 per day, $56.50 per hour. He can't make it to "work" on time? I checked it out and in NJ the work 10 months per year and the highest salary is over 100K @22 years service.
 

He gives his excuse being that he has to eat breakfast. Ummm.... get up a half-hour earlier and eat breakfast a half-hour earlier. Amazing that someone this "brain dead" is teaching children. But... sad to say there are worse than he in the classrooms today.

He is suspended. He will return to work in January. He has been passed over for salary increases. Says that when he returns to work he WILL be early. I know a number of people who are late to everything. It sounds like the arbitrator did not feel as if the school district gave this guy fair warning that he needed to correct the fault or he'd be terminated. Is he the only teacher late? Has it become an "assumed right" that teachers can come dragging in to the classroom late? As one poster suggested, we don't know the whole story. Perhaps bringing this to a head will not only encourage the one teacher to be more prompt... but set an example that will change the habits of a number of the staff.
 
A company I worked for had a woman who could not get to work on time because she claimed a mental illness that made her engage in "excessive grooming". She would be ready to go out the door and then would have to go back and do some combination of rewashing and setting her hair, redoing her makeup, changing clothes.... sometimes as much as 10 times.

The company offered to let her work flexible hours as long as she put in 8 hours a day, i.e. if she got there at 8:00 a.m., she could leave at 5:00. If her grooming kept her out til 11:00 a.m., she would have to work til 8:00. But nooooo.....she wanted to be able to leave at 5:00 no matter when she got in AND still be paid for 8 hours no matter how many hours she actually worked. She insisted that the company had to "accommodate" her because of her "illness".

I left before it came up for arbitration so I don't know the outcome.
 
In our state, teacher tenure make it almost impossible to fire a teacher. That just doesn't seem right to me.
 
There are bad apples everywhere. On this day, though, the first day of a new school year in my community, I want to applaud every teacher who walked into a classroom this morning. Most of them aren't earning anything close to $90,000. Most of them arrive at school early and stay late. Most of them spent a good part of their summer break planning for a new year. Most of them care deeply about their students and try their best to give kids what they need, even in the face of federal and state mandates that focus on anything but what kids need. Most teachers are good and dedicated people who teach our kids to read, teach our kids to be good citizens, and teach our kids to be good people. Bravo, teachers!
 
The vast majority of teachers are dedicated professionals who sincerely want to give the students a good education. However, the Teachers Union, and some school boards, who are afraid to speak up, have created an environment where the Bad Apples are tolerated, and allowed to subvert many children's educations. Unions are a very good idea for the majority of the people, but if they don't police their own memberships and require certain standards, they do a disservice to the people.
 

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