Oakland schools are cheap skates. Fresno paid their teachers a bribe of $6,000. Oakland was only willing to bribes their teachers $800. So, Oakland teachers are not going back to the classroom yet.
“In another sign that the battle over reopening California’s schools is far from over, more than a dozen Oakland preschools and elementary schools canceled their planned Tuesday reopening after most teachers chose not to return until required to do so in mid-April, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Their decision, which came in spite of a district-union deal, an $800 stipend and state-prioritized vaccines, underscores the breadth of challenges facing public schools working to get students back into the classroom. The lack of teachers forced an additional 30 Oakland schools to scale back reopening plans.”
Did someone tell the teachers they have a contract? Did someone tell them if they do not teach, they have resigned? Who runs the schools? Bribe taking teachers—and the bribe better be high enough.
Oakland schools cancel planned reopening
Emily Hoeven, CalMatters, 3/29/21
In another sign that the battle over reopening California’s schools is far from over, more than a dozen Oakland preschools and elementary schools canceled their planned Tuesday reopening after most teachers chose not to return until required to do so in mid-April, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Their decision, which came in spite of a district-union deal, an $800 stipend and state-prioritized vaccines, underscores the breadth of challenges facing public schools working to get students back into the classroom. The lack of teachers forced an additional 30 Oakland schools to scale back reopening plans, and San Francisco is confronting a teacher shortage of its own, suggesting that districts may have to hire large swaths of substitutes in order to reopen campuses fully. Meanwhile, many parents are frustrated that teachers aren’t returning even under a hybrid schedule consisting of only five hours of in-person instruction per week.
- Oakland School Board President Shanthi Gonzales: “I know we’ve already lost families to private schools and charter schools. We have to provide something really good so families will come back.”
- Annie Gottbehuet, an Oakland resident whose 5-year-old daughter will be taught by a substitute: “I’m really nervous about sending her to school with someone who is not her teacher as her first experience walking into the school.”
