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Letter to the Editor: The Sad State of PUSD Teachers

Published on Friday, March 25, 2016 | 12:51 pm
 

For the last 23 years – 10 in the Pasadena Unified School District – I have dedicated my life to teaching children with special needs. I have been rewarded for my loyalty and perseverance by PUSD with one 3% raise a couple of years ago: after years of furlough days, benefit cost increases, and five (yes, FIVE) superintendents. When we teachers of PUSD agreed to the furlough days, we were told that our salaries and benefits would be “restored and enhanced” when the district had the money. Now the district has nearly $10 million in unallocated funds and instead of keeping their promise to the teachers of the district, they continue to ignore us – literally. Instead they spend money on phone systems (that fail), purchase computer programs and implement mandatory use of them (despite their uselessness), and continue to practice costly nepotism at the district’s administrative level. The teachers of PUSD are already among the lowest paid in the region. There is a looming teacher shortage. There are vacancies the district hasn’t been able to fill since the beginning of the 15/16 school year and Thirty Three teachers resigned in March. Who do you want teaching your children?

Sincerely,

Laurel

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