Thaindian News

Mar 5 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A Rhode Island High School has fired every one of it’s teachers and staff as well,including the principle, according to reports by USA Today. The teacher’s Union had formerly refused to go along with the superintendent’s proposed plan to increase the workload of these teachers without giving them the extra pay for working it.

Central Falls High School, was worse on performance levels than most of the school in the United States this year, and the superintendent was supposedly working to fix this, as well as to conform to Obama’s demands to spend less. The proposed plan by the superintendent included having the teachers work 25 minutes longer, eat lunch with the students and help with tutoring. They were also supposed to submit to more detailed evaluations, go to weekly after school planning sessions with the other teachers of the school, and have a two week training session during the summer.

Although they were not to receive much more pay for all of this added work, it does seem that, with the pay they were already getting being almost 3 to 4 times greater than that of the other employed citizens of the town, the school should not have had the problem in the first place.These teachers already make far more than the median pay in the town, which is 22,000 dollars. The teachers at Central Falls were making 70,000 to 78,000 dollars. With 50% of the students in the school failing their classes, and less than half of the students graduating, it seems that something did have to be done. According to school superintendent Frances Gallo, the union’s callous disregard for the measures she suggested to help get the students back on track was to blame. She added “The union leaders knew full well what would happen if they rejected the proposed conditions.”