...that subs in our district might
be getting a pay increase next year!
This entire year, the sub
line has been busy. I have had to make sure to take myself off the list the night
before if I wanted a day off. I have come to hate that phone call at 05:30am. If
I don't have an assignment by the time I go to bed, I'm off the list.
Add that to the two weeks off
mid April for a beach vacation and you can understand my availability status has
substantially declined this year.
The day after we got back, I
took a 6th grade job that included recess yard duty. It was during recess,
while talking with a teacher I've worked for several times, that she informed me
of the news.
"I hear that you're
getting a $15/day raise next near."
It seems that the "sub
shortage" this year has prompted the teachers' union to petition for the
increase to attract more subs from the neighboring districts.
"It's been crazy this
year. Every sub seems to be busy or dropped out of the sub pool this year. We
had to cancel some planning meetings and cover for each other it was so
bad."
I hope it works but I also
assume that this will be the first thing that the district negotiators will want to redline
in the new teachers' contract.
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