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 To the editor:New
Holland-Middletown teachers are working without a contract this
year. Negotiations have been ongoing since the start of the school
year, but the association has been unable to reach an agreement with
the board of education.
New Holland-Middletown Education Association President Diane
Bicknell states the following:
"Our goal is to maintain the integrity of the school district. In
order to serve the students and provide them with a quality
education, the district must be able to attract and retain
high-quality teachers.
"District test scores are excellent due to the quality teachers
and parents we have in the district. Our goal is to maintain that
quality.
"We are not interested in securing a contract that treats New
Holland-Middletown students as if they are the training ground for
new teachers who soon move on to school districts that offer better
salaries and benefits.
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 "New Holland-Middletown must stop the trend of losing teachers to
other school districts that pay better and offer better benefits. It
hurts students, teachers and property values.
"We currently are dead-last in salaries when compared with
competitor school districts. It's not fair to us or to the community
and students.
"The district can afford our proposal in its entirety with no new
taxes. Even if they said yes to our offer, we'd still remain
dead-last in salaries and benefits."
Diane Bicknell
New Holland-Middletown Education Association president
[Posted
October 12, 2009]
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