Parents and students expressed frustration at a City Council hearing Thursday on the impasse in contract negotiations between the Boston public schools and the Boston Teachers Union, saying the deadlock is affecting the quality of education.
“I think I am giving up on BPS,” Dawn Portanova, a parent of four, said at the hearing, which drew about two dozen parents and students.
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Why does the teacher's contract get so much attention? The cops have been without a contract just as long. The real, glaring inequality in negotiations is the fact that a Boston firefighter gets paid $15,000 more a year than a cop. This is the only city in the country where this happens. The teacher's threaten strike or work to rule and everyone panics. The cops go out every day and answer radio calls that could get them killed but you hear very little of their plight. Troopers, Quincy cops, Brookline cops and Boston Firefighters all get paid more than Boston cops.