I wanted to pass on some suggestions that I've heard people mention:
1) Many teachers have asked if they have to attend the RIF hearings for the full two days. The answer is that as soon as your ranking (or issue) is reviewed, your are expected to return to school. If you are done on Thursday, cancel the sub for Friday. If you are done in the middle of the day (or morning) on either Thursday or Friday, ask your site manager if you should cancel the sub. You are still required to return to your teaching assignment, but the school may want to use the sub for the remainder of the day on a different assignment.
2) Come early to find a parking space. Over 600 teachers received pink slips. Assuming that many of those teachers will show up for the hearings, parking will be difficult.
3) Bring something to keep yourself entertained as there will be a lot of waiting around.
4) Bring lunch/snacks/something to drink. Lunch is not provided.
5 comments:
I love this, the district can't run a washing machine. Why spend money on this for subs and have some schools, which I know have a high % of newer, and hence laid off teachers, attending this. So now we will have schools being over run by subs, money costs to pay them, star testing disruption....why didn't the board call a late start or use a "snow day"? No thinking in this district...god are we stupid
Of the teachers remaining and not laid off..who should be nervous bout involuntary transfers? I don't want to be removed from my site.
My understanding is that the teachers who would be involuntarily transfered are those whose positions are no longer at their site.
For example, at our site, we supposedly don't have enough sections in science so two full positions are being collapsed. We happen to have two teachers who were pink slipped so no other teacher at our site will have to be transfered.
However, just to make things more complicated, once teachers' RIF notices are recinded (which hopefully many will be), some teachers may be involuntariy transfered because of loss of positions at the original site. However, if the pink slips are recinded AFTER the involuntary transfer window, then my understanding is that the district can call up the newly recinded teacher and offer them whichever position is available.
The district cannot hire outside teachers until all pink slipped teachers have been offered a position in the credential area. This re-hire requirement is in effect for about 2 years, depending on if a teacher is a probationary or tenured teacher.
I'm not sure if this makes sense or makes it more confusing. . . .
Miss W- it makes it more confusing because you're a teacher in the district and you can't spell rescinded, transferred, involuntarily or rehire.
Fail.
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