PROPS: Teachers deserve answers

Imagine this. You have finished college, and are now ready to begin your new career as a teacher. So you get a job in a great school district in Idaho. Naturally, you start asking some basic questions about what your new job will look like.

How many students will be in your class? Will you be given any time during your workday to prepare for the multiple subjects to be taught to the students? When will you be grading all of those papers and projects? Do you get time for lunch without any other responsibilities? Is there a supply budget? What about the number of days that you will be required to work during the year, or how many hours a day you will be required to work? Under the current legislation, none of these areas can be negotiated in your contract.

Let me ask anyone who has ever held a job: would you settle on salary and benefits without knowing just how big the job is going to be or what your working conditions will be like? I didn’t think so. But that is just what teachers are expected to do every year.

Don’t be fooled by the guest opinion of the School Boards Association. Remember, the teacher’s working conditions are the student’s learning environment. Please join with the many concerned teachers and parents who will be VOTING NO on Proposition 1. While you are there, be sure to VOTE NO on Propositions 2 and 3 as well.

RICK JONES

Rathdrum