This is a direct assault on collective bargaining at any level. The 'idea' that unions have to have 50% membership among any group of people is a ridiculous idea. The union benefits all the people receiving salaries from University of Florida. It is not just the members that receive benefits of a negotiated contract. For that reason alone, many people 'sit out' the 'membership' status of unions and simply take the benefits. It isn't as though non-members are opposed to collective bargaining, it is quite the contrary, but, here again is manipulation of 'perception' to bring about destruction of the Middle Class.
Now, university professors are going to be held accountable for 'student performance.' That is impossible. In the primary and secondary schools students are NOT adults and are required by law to attend school. It is expected young Americans will achieve basic competencies in math, English and basic skills in physicial education and science in a public education. The 'orientation' to religion doesn't belong in the public schools. But, that is besides the point.
Even in the public schools at the secondary level there are drop outs at the age of 16. Those are burgeoning adults making their own decisions frequently with their parents consent. There has to be an understanding that performance based pay only carries through primary school. Once young Americans achieve the age of 15 and 16 their decision making and loyality to their education changes. They make congnitive decisions to particpate and do well or wash out. Not that is what is best, but, it occurs and it is legal.
To believe any university professor is capable of effecting the grades of their students when they aren't even required to attend classes or provide written excuses from parents whom are held accountable for their attendance is completely bizarre. University professors cannot be held accountable for the outcome of their students when those students are not babes in the woods, participate in adult behavior such as work, marriage, child bearing and rearing, even alcohol consumption and illegal behaviors such as drug additions.
These are outrageous laws that pander to the plutocracy by 'manequinns' in the Republican ranks that have no 'ideas' but only rhetoric to turn into hideous laws that have no research or statisitics to validate the law will improve any learning environment. Republican lawmakers are incompetent and unable to move in productive directions because of their ideology and this is more of the same.
...The Senate (click title to entry - thank you) also passed a bill to eliminate teacher tenure for those hired after July 1. In addition, the bill would base teacher pay largely upon the performance of students.
Susan Hegeman, the United Faculty of Florida’s UF chapter membership chairwoman, called the new proposals a “dramatic assault on unions.”
“A lot of conservative lawmakers see unions as the last remaining threat to their power,” Hegeman said.
She is concerned that if the union is decertified and its collective bargaining rights terminated, conditions governing employment at UF will be left strictly up to the university.
“As to whether they will be willing to take into consideration faculty needs,” Hegeman said, “I do not think that they will.”
In order to maintain protection from the new legislation, Hegeman said that UFF-UF must increase its current membership by about 30 percent.
According to Hegeman, new legislation calls for decertification of those unions with less than 50 percent faculty membership....
I do believe all this mess is litigable. Teachers are not mind readers or magicians. They cannot be held responsible for behavior so much as the opportunity for students to learn. The motivation is important but does not fall into the 'job description' in a way that requires teachers to 'police' the lives of students, but, only the lack of cheating by those students in an exam.
The courts are going to be burdened by all this mess because Republican ideologues are incompetent. And if that doesn't cost money, think again.
Now, university professors are going to be held accountable for 'student performance.' That is impossible. In the primary and secondary schools students are NOT adults and are required by law to attend school. It is expected young Americans will achieve basic competencies in math, English and basic skills in physicial education and science in a public education. The 'orientation' to religion doesn't belong in the public schools. But, that is besides the point.
Even in the public schools at the secondary level there are drop outs at the age of 16. Those are burgeoning adults making their own decisions frequently with their parents consent. There has to be an understanding that performance based pay only carries through primary school. Once young Americans achieve the age of 15 and 16 their decision making and loyality to their education changes. They make congnitive decisions to particpate and do well or wash out. Not that is what is best, but, it occurs and it is legal.
To believe any university professor is capable of effecting the grades of their students when they aren't even required to attend classes or provide written excuses from parents whom are held accountable for their attendance is completely bizarre. University professors cannot be held accountable for the outcome of their students when those students are not babes in the woods, participate in adult behavior such as work, marriage, child bearing and rearing, even alcohol consumption and illegal behaviors such as drug additions.
These are outrageous laws that pander to the plutocracy by 'manequinns' in the Republican ranks that have no 'ideas' but only rhetoric to turn into hideous laws that have no research or statisitics to validate the law will improve any learning environment. Republican lawmakers are incompetent and unable to move in productive directions because of their ideology and this is more of the same.
...The Senate (click title to entry - thank you) also passed a bill to eliminate teacher tenure for those hired after July 1. In addition, the bill would base teacher pay largely upon the performance of students.
Susan Hegeman, the United Faculty of Florida’s UF chapter membership chairwoman, called the new proposals a “dramatic assault on unions.”
“A lot of conservative lawmakers see unions as the last remaining threat to their power,” Hegeman said.
She is concerned that if the union is decertified and its collective bargaining rights terminated, conditions governing employment at UF will be left strictly up to the university.
“As to whether they will be willing to take into consideration faculty needs,” Hegeman said, “I do not think that they will.”
In order to maintain protection from the new legislation, Hegeman said that UFF-UF must increase its current membership by about 30 percent.
According to Hegeman, new legislation calls for decertification of those unions with less than 50 percent faculty membership....
I do believe all this mess is litigable. Teachers are not mind readers or magicians. They cannot be held responsible for behavior so much as the opportunity for students to learn. The motivation is important but does not fall into the 'job description' in a way that requires teachers to 'police' the lives of students, but, only the lack of cheating by those students in an exam.
The courts are going to be burdened by all this mess because Republican ideologues are incompetent. And if that doesn't cost money, think again.
