by Lois Samsel-Cronk, Grievance Committee Chair

It appears there was a violation of our contract, the Stage 3 grievance the High School Guidance counselors filed regarding CrossPointe was voted on without a hearing. The contract states, ”the B.O.E. shall hold a hearing…”. We were able to get a hearing date after a reminder to the Board president of our contract language. The date was April 12th, and we presented our grievance concerns to the board. At the time of this writing there has been no response from the BOE. Hopefully the emperor’s new clothes do not still enamor the people involved with this response.

The cleanliness grievance at Chorley is on hold pending the return of the head custodian.

We also have two “undue clerical” grievances at stage 1b pending. One stems from all the work that has fallen upon the teachers as a result of ALL the testing at the elementary level. The other is a result of CrossPointe.