Please read the attached pages of quotes from our members. Although classes continue and students arc still safe in the schools, this requires tremendous effort on the part of the school administrators and central staff that support them. The program for students has deteriorated. If we make this work, we are proving the Federation case but at tremendous personal cost to the admistrators in the schools and to the ability of principals to direct the educational progrnm in their schools. This has now increased.
Students now are very anxious and are beginning to get restless, Some teachers are.
Principals feel that we are not doing our jobs well. We are further impaired by receiving contradictory instruction about what to do or not do. The current job action and TDSD policies are making the administrator less of a people person and more of a paper person. We are now forced to communicate with our staff by memo and informal conversations. Most of the communication with staff has to do with what they will and will not do as defined by the Federation and not by the needs of the students.