Posted Aug 20, 2018
I have since resigned my union membership and, with it, my voting rights. As a result, I have been subjected to bullying and ridicule from my colleagues and administration. Shortly after I became a fee-payer, my car was vandalized several times in the faculty parking lot where it endured multiple punctured tires. Was it an unfortunate coincidence, or was it more likely punishment for the objections I had raised? And what about our former school superintendent who (during his opening-day speech) publicly shamed any teacher who disavowed the union as a “right-wing extremist threat to public education?”
No one deserves to be treated this way because of her beliefs. I should not be forced to accept how my union speaks “for” me. My union, the Marietta Education Association never asked me whether it was OK to spend my earnings to oppose my husband’s campaign for office. It never asked whether I approved of the positions it was negotiating “on my behalf,” such as requiring the district to make layoff decisions in cases of a tie in seniority by a coin flip without any consideration of merit — even if the tie were between the teacher of the year and a poorly performing teacher! I also oppose positions advocated by the union that exclude teachers who are not union members from participation in the Evaluation Committee or the Student Growth Measures Committee............To Read More....
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