{"id":4717,"date":"2009-08-29T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T22:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/district-and-teachers-union-start-acting-like-educated-people\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:30:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:30:28","slug":"district-and-teachers-union-start-acting-like-educated-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/district-and-teachers-union-start-acting-like-educated-people\/","title":{"rendered":"District and teachers&#8217; union: Start acting like educated people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To preface my comment let me say that I have lived and supported the Kent schools since 1964. I have raised three children in the Kent schools, and my first wife worked in the Kent schools for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>I do not understand the logic nor education behind the Kent school administration and Kent school teachers\u2019 contract impass.<\/p>\n<p>The economy today is hurting us all, unemployment, housing prices, declining tax bases, to mention a few. It\u2019s evident neither the Kent School Administration or Kent Teachers Association understand that now is the time to economize and work together.<\/p>\n<p>Just because there is money in the savings account doesn\u2019t mean it has to be spent. Class sizes have been in the 30-plus as far back as I can remember. What we need is a school district (administration and teachers) who can negotiate (to confer regarding a basis of agreement) and work toward the future when good teachers receive better pay and class size really decreases.<\/p>\n<p>Kent administration and teachers association: it\u2019s time to act like responsible educated people and set aside the politics and power tactics and go to work for a better education for our kids!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Howard Lontz<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To preface my comment let me say that I have lived and supported the Kent schools since 1964. I have raised three children in the Kent schools, and my first wife worked in the Kent schools for a number of years. I do not understand the logic nor education behind the Kent school administration and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}