Seventy six employees of the Upland Unified School District were handed lay-off notices in March and now 45 of those notices have been recinded. That's pretty crazy to think that if I got laid off tomorrow I might be able to negotiate my way out of it. Not happening.
Part of me is irked that my taxes were raised to pay for that but I guess I can suck it up and just be happy that for once some high paying jobs are being saved.
Some employees are going to take early retirement (I'm sure an excellent package is ready for them) and on the other end, class sizes will increase by two which isn't a big deal really. It's about a 10% increase, but everyone I know that still has a job has had their workload increase due to layoffs. I myself am doing a job where I was 1 of 8 three years ago and now I'm one of 2 covering even more territory. Compensation has obviously not kept pace but you won't hear me complaining as long as the checks don't bounce and my kids have insurance.
Upland does a pretty good job of educating students so there shouldn't be much drop off.
I hope that with more people out of work, more parents are signing on to help out in classes and that might offset the layoffs but I might be waaaay off.
(The picture above is awesome because it brings back fond (mostly) memories. It's the Kindergarten building over at Sierra Vista Elementary. My teacher was Mrs. Pond and I still remember playing Duck, Duck, Goose in the playground out back. Those were the days...)
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I don't know the specifics of the Upland situation, but I know that in Los Angeles, L.A. Unified was required to give advance notice of the layoffs, even if they didn't happen. That may be why Upland sent out so many layoff notices, and then rescinded some of them.
P.S. Goose! (runs)
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