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Sheet: Glennie Fitzgerald Sewell

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Fair Share Fee: Those Who Don't Pay Their Fair Share
I'd like to explain my position
Explain your fair share position, if you choose.
I do agree with this. As a former public school teacher, having lived in a state that forbids unions, I realized how imperative it was to pay a small share
of my income (1 or 2 percent) into a body that would represent my interests on a local and state level, as well as protect my job security. These efforts
cannot come for free, as our system requires we be bled for money to protect ourselves. In a collective system, you give to protect yourself, you give to protect all.
Teachers' Retirement: Support in the State Budget
I'd like to explain my position
Explain your teachers' retirement position, if you choose.
There is no reason why the State cannot meet its obligation to pay into teacher's retirement, most espeically when said teachers are meeting their own personal
obligations to the mind, body and even spirit (on occasion) of the students in their care. As I meet my obligation, the State would need to meet its own. When it
comes to any public service, this should really be a non-issue, and it should be embarrassing that it is.
Health Care: Continuing System Reform
Agree
Explain your health care reform position, if you choose
No response
Teaching Career: Retaining New Teachers
I'd like to explain my position
Explain your teaching career position, if you choose
Having received a teaching certification in 9th to 12th grade English many years ago, then not really using it, I understand what it is like to waste time and energy to
pursuit of a passionate practice, then be disenfranchised from that practice. In my case, I did not meet the ethnic or gender choice a teacher was "supposed" to be
(according to the view of that local society, culturally and religiously). This should never be an allowable situation. A State board should be somewhat responsible for
hiring teachers into a particular system, depending on the needs of a specific school system / supervisory union. There needs to be several people involved in such
a hire, as not to leave it purely to the whims, prejudices, pre-judgments and/or nepotism of a particular principal. Student teaching needs an observing semester,
then a teaching semester. Having been through the process, it need not be longer than that. However, the needs of speical-needs students should be covered as a
full state course, carried by all teacher certification systems in the state colleges and the Community College of Vermont. I agree with the position listed above, but
needed to add some thoughts, that are -- by no means -- complete.
Teaching Profession: Simplifying Professional Relicensing
I'd like to explain my position
Explain your relicensing position, if you choose
Relicensing made simple should go without saying. Teachers simply need to keep up on prossional development seminars given in-system, in-house,or taken as
short, micro-courses (affordable) given by CCV. I push these notions with CCV, as I teach for them at this time, and am partial to the Community College System
in any state.
Name | email address | Address | Office sought | Are you an incumbent? |  | County
[NAME] | [EMAIL] | 8 Summit Street, Unit 1, Montpelier, VT, 05602 | Representative, Washington-4, Progressive | No