By LESTER CHANG
The Fremont Union High School District has warned its teachers not to withhold student services as a way to hasten contract negotiations.
In a June 14 letter to the Fremont Education Association, the district said teachers are obligated by the current contract to write letters of recommendation for students bound for college, to provide tutoring services and to show up at school before the start of a school day with a prepared lesson plan.
The union, meanwhile, contends its teachers are not contractually bound to provide such services.
The district's warning came in response to a May 31 letter to parents in which the FEA threatened such sanctions should an agreement not be reached.
Bebe Sellers, associate superintendent of employer-employee relations for the district, said the FEA has acted irresponsibly by spreading "false information" to the public.
Such distorted information, she wrote in her letter to FEA president George Gredassoff, "seems to hurt only those we are here to serve, our students."
Sellers said teachers are bound by the contract to write letters of recommendation for students
Teachers also would violate the contract if they prepared for instructions during the regular class time. Teachers are required to teach an entire class period, not just parts of it, Sellers said.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, July 3, 1996.
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