Hundreds of teachers blew horns, rang bells and chanted “talk to teachers’’ at a rally last night at Boston School Department headquarters, in hopes of speeding up protracted negotiations over a new contract. “What do we want?’’ A female teacher yelled to the crowd. “A contract,’’ teachers cheered. Many teachers expressed frustration in interviews that negotiations have dragged on for 20 months and disappointment that school district administrators have often cast teachers in a negative light.
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"More than a third of the students in Boston public high schools were chronically absent last year, even as the city undertook additional efforts to lure students to school, according to a Globe analysis." The teachers aren't teaching anywhere near the total number of students in a given day. Most people in the private sector haven't seen any raises recently and have nowhere near the pension and health care benefits city employees (might) ultimately realize in retirement. Freeze the pay and benefits and see how many resign to go into the private sector (not retire) over the next few years. Anyone want to bet that voluntary movement to private sector employment will be anything more than negligible were a freeze deployed for five years?