With their current offer the board is given the option of protecting themselves by rehiring every three years to avoid firing. We also want to protect experienced teachers.

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There are better ways of doing things than to just implement it on us. It hurt a lot of teachers that we couldn't compromise. For every one bad teacher you get several good ones. We don't want the collective bargaining changed for one bad teacher.

257

This could go on for months if the school board appeals. Morale has been damaged but it's not irreparable.

229

We were really surprised. We were prepared to have the board terminate him, and we were quite relieved and surprised that they didn't.

227

We are encouraged by the progress. It went miles further than it has in three years. We've been wanting to negotiate like this all along, with both sides resuming their responsibilities.

184

It had more to do with the letter of the law than anything else. It's really difficult to say much more about it. It was what we felt was a minor infraction - certainly not something that merited termination.

162

The students were genuinely concerned about this. I was proud of the way they behaved themselves, not that I condone skipping school. The [state teachers' union] says you can bring in a 100 people and it won't make any difference, but I think it did last night.

134

We are here to teach. It's what we like to do -- it keeps us crazy and sane at the same time.

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