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Union leaders tell Charles County board educators are near a breaking point over expanding duties
Summary
The Eastern American County Council (EACC) and AFSCME representatives told the Board of Education Sept. 9 that rising non-instructional workload, required makeup work, and expectations for collaborative planning are unsustainable without time or compensation changes.
A labor representative and a union vice president told the Board of Education on Sept. 9 that educators’ non-instructional workload has grown to unsustainable levels and that the district should examine what duties could be removed or reallocated.
At the start of public comment, EACC representative Mr. Veil (identified in the meeting as the speaker for the educators’ association) described teacher workload in vivid detail: hall and bus duty, signing in, meetings before school, interruptions during lessons, grading hundreds of papers, planning time consumed by urgent items and parent calls, and new expectations such as collaborative planning and allowing retests. “What is being asked of educators is…
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