Oh yeah, that was kind of a call to get a petition started and I'm going to do it because I'm still not convinced this is a bad idea. But I can be convinced (I'll reach out to you via email and we can debate). I could get 50 signatures this weekend at the Farmers Market.
This might take away autonomy from ETHS or it might not depending on…
Oh yeah, that was kind of a call to get a petition started and I'm going to do it because I'm still not convinced this is a bad idea. But I can be convinced (I'll reach out to you via email and we can debate). I could get 50 signatures this weekend at the Farmers Market.
This might take away autonomy from ETHS or it might not depending on how this new consolidated District gets structured. I am personally going to advocate that both boards get disbanded and we re-elected a new one with board members who are compensated.
Even if it did take away autonomy, I'm still not convinced that we (as a town) should value the autonomy of ETHS over making sure the K-8 teachers are fairly compensated for their work. Why do we pay a 9th grade science teacher 23% more than an 8th grade science teacher? The work is not meaningfully different.
I realize that ETHS holds a special place in a lot of people's hearts and none of this is about changing that but right now ETHS benefits to the detriment of D65. Sure, D65 has a lot of bad leadership and that's part of the reason for the mess but long term, the sustainability of K-8 districts isn't there - they have vastly more assets to worry about with none of the upside you get form the HS (like private donations, etc), labor/admin costs are going up and they're always going to be lagging in pay.
Like there is no way you can justify the 80% difference in pay in Skokie between K-8 and the Niles teachers! There's no amount of additional credentials they get worth that much more.
Oh yeah, that was kind of a call to get a petition started and I'm going to do it because I'm still not convinced this is a bad idea. But I can be convinced (I'll reach out to you via email and we can debate). I could get 50 signatures this weekend at the Farmers Market.
This might take away autonomy from ETHS or it might not depending on how this new consolidated District gets structured. I am personally going to advocate that both boards get disbanded and we re-elected a new one with board members who are compensated.
Even if it did take away autonomy, I'm still not convinced that we (as a town) should value the autonomy of ETHS over making sure the K-8 teachers are fairly compensated for their work. Why do we pay a 9th grade science teacher 23% more than an 8th grade science teacher? The work is not meaningfully different.
I realize that ETHS holds a special place in a lot of people's hearts and none of this is about changing that but right now ETHS benefits to the detriment of D65. Sure, D65 has a lot of bad leadership and that's part of the reason for the mess but long term, the sustainability of K-8 districts isn't there - they have vastly more assets to worry about with none of the upside you get form the HS (like private donations, etc), labor/admin costs are going up and they're always going to be lagging in pay.
Like there is no way you can justify the 80% difference in pay in Skokie between K-8 and the Niles teachers! There's no amount of additional credentials they get worth that much more.