The May 1 issue notes that the Fremont Union High School District wants a three-year contract that will raise teachers' salaries at a compound rate of between about 8 and 11 percent per year, with no apparent regard for merit. How many taxpayers in the district can look forward to such generous raises over the next three years?
Yet the teachers' union is prepared to reject this as inadequate! It would seem that its priorities have only remote connection with parents' and taxpayers' desires to improve students' education.
R. A. Blais
Cupertino
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, June 5, 1996.
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