Apparently not in the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. Staging a "sick-out" to protest stalled contract talks is a reprehensible move. It hurts only kids. Oh, yes, and the union’s already tattered image. Grow up, people! Leave "ditch days" to graduating seniors.
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Alan is right on the money here. There’s $54M on the table and we would love to have a crack at it. We as teachers are disgusted at the leadership (if you can call it leadership) of DCTA. Think the union will actually start listening to its membership? We’re beginning to speak up and the only discussion of “sickness” has to do with the union’s misrepresentation of its constituency.
As a parent in the Sandoval community, I feel compelled to point out that there’s a pattern here. The only schools that can muster a sick out, Sandoval and the Center for International Studies, are the schools where DCTA president Kim Ursetta sends her children. Even a week before the “faculty” played hooky at their students’ expense, Ursetta was telling people in the Sandoval community that DCTA was not responsible for any action at her kids school. Hmm…
It is time for DCTA to stop fiddling around with cheap imitations of protest. They are shaming the professional teachers in Denver by misrepresenting them. They should get to work and get a settlement. They what a real union would do under these circumstances.