A shortage of substitute teachers spelled a rocky start for some classrooms on Monday, the first day of a Strongsville teachers' strike, but school officials said more fill-ins have been added in the last two days.
School Treasurer Deborah Herrmann said she believes the total is up to about 200, with more hired every day.
"We're still putting people into the buildings," Herrmann said.
Substitutes are being pad $175 a day to fill in for striking teachers.
Herrmann said teachers' salaries and benefits cost the district roughly $1 million a week. Teachers are not being paid or receiving benefits during the work stoppage.
On Day 3 of the teachers strike, many of the 383 members of the Strongsville Education Association remain on the picket lines.
Administrators reported smoother conditions at Strongsville High School and in other buildings Tuesday as students settled into new routines.
Some parents said on Strongsville Patch's Facebook page that the situation in parking lots remains tense, with picketers failing to move out of the driveways for traffic quickly enough.
Police were called to Kinsner Elementary Tuesday morning after an incident involving a picketing teacher and a parent dropping off her children.
The mom told police the teacher wouldn't move out of the way and slammed her car hood with her hand as she inched forward.
The teacher told police the car grazed her as it went past.
She was not injured and continued picketing.
It will have everything to do with the new image that Strongsville is quickly gaining as a place to stay away from. Home buyers will not want their children taught by the very people they have been watching on TV. Home buyers do not want to live where they think hoodlums wander around with the quiet approval of parents, community and police. Shoppers will not want to chance a run-in with these same hoodlums. Thank you teachers and students form leaving others with the impression of what are community has become. Notice I said perception - not reality.
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You brought up some very valid points. I guess it's hard for me to realize and admit that our awesome teachers would stoop to the low level that they did. How can they truly say that they love their students when they took everything with them that would help the students learn? I guess they really didn't want the students to learn anything while they were gone. They're blackmailing the Board to meet their demands. They're using the students as pawns and that hurts worst of all.
You must not have been following my travel schedule...I was outside today, but it was on beach. Nice to know I'm on your mind though. Hello from St. Barts!
But, all that said, taxpayers are tapped out and there needs to be a solution where the same or leass of pot of money is split up for better performing teachers. The State is implementing a more performance based system starting next year. The system now of paying everybody the same based on seniority is not fair and needs changed. As long as there are more good teachers in the union than bad, they should be able to work out a way to pay the better more and the bad ones less. Maybe give Teachers bonuses for figuring out ways to lower costs like I'm sure the board is getting. They need to get back to the table and figure it out. There are a lot of devisive comments here that are breaking up the community. These comments will lead to major disruption of political, economic, and financial issues. We need more constuctive comments on how to resolve the issues.
Also, I'm in no way saying I agree with some of the methods of protest the teachers are using. I don't agree with blocking school driveways, banging on cars, allegedly instructing kids to misbehave, shouting at replacements, or posting a wall of shame on facebook. I think these actions have cost them in the eyes of the public. A civil picketing line would have been the ideal path in my eyes. I try to put myself in the position of the teachers. Think about it...To have my BOE praise me for the "unprecedented willingness" (superintendent's words) to make those concessions last contract & promise me they'd make efforts to reward those concessions next time around, then fail to make any changes whatsoever & actually make the problem worse...You'd be upset too. This is a case of the BOE's unwillingness to compromise at all. Last time I checked, these cases get resolved by both sides giving up something for the greater good. Every single thing the BOE is asking for is yet another concession by the teachers. I have a lot of respect for the teacher's I've had. I wouldn't be where I am today without them. I know the extra hard work they put in & the money they spend out of pocket on the kids.
I still am greatful for the teachers but not their behavior. My daughter wants them back but she knows the cost that we can't afford.
You just said - "If textbooks were taken, it was because the teacher purchased them for the kids with their own money, since funding for schools is lacking." So, if the schools can't buy textbooks for the kids, how can they give ANY more to the teachers? Based on your statement, the teachers should probably take a cut!
Please BOE and SEA let's end this.
no facts - no figures -just misinfo and rumors - do not correct with facts and figures And when people still keep repeating wrong info, still do repeat the facts and info Just alt the propaganda, lies and half truths be on here and don't show swith facts and figures that they are wrong Don't tell them where to find the correct info - even when the contract is there to read - pretend it says something else Pretend more money in your pay check is not a raise pretend 72% increase in pay means you haven't had a raise for years we want to be able to lie and go unchallenged I think that about sums up what Linda wants...
To your other point...the teachers aren't even asking for anything more money-wise. They're only asking for things to resume from where they were before they agreed to $2.5 million worth of concessions from the previous contract, like the BOE promised them. The BOE can even afford to give teachers 2% raises within their budget, but the teachers aren't even asking for that. They only want the salary freeze to be lifted. To the BOE: this could have been avoided if your mouth didn't write checks that your a** can't cash. It's shocking to me how the BOE superintendent could praise the teachers for the selfless willingness to give up so much the previous negotiation, then stab them in the backs this time around.