I find the atmosphere of distrust and disagreement between the teacher’s union in Everett and the administrators all too familiar. Twenty years ago, the teachers and administrators in the Lake Washington School District found themselves in the same predicament, and this led to teacher strikes and plenty of bad feelings. Eventually a system of cooperative negotiations and mutual respect left the district in a better position to concentrate on the most important issue: the students. Generally a distrust of unions and lack of administrative respect of teachers starts at the top and works its way through the system to building administrators. Parents in Everett should start asking their administrators to get on with helping to educate our kids, not get in the way. By the way, did anyone else notice that the superintendent’s response to “spygate” did not include a denial that a monitoring camera was in a classroom, but only a denial that it was used in the report to discipline the teacher?
Larry McDonald
Snohomish
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