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Show 130 It is puzzling that while in times of financial teachers to be are told that before funding is increased, there ought proof that the system is improving. famine, teachers are told that they plenty, are Yet in times of financial doing well under the circumstances. Who Should Control the Schools? The issue of teacher power is to do with how much control over public education. actually quite simple. teachers should fessional School should not have or How the issue is resolved the economic status of the educational pride of teachers. system It has as can well greatly affect the pro as M. Lynn Bennion, while Salt Lake City District Superintendent in 1968, defended collective bar gaining and idealistically spoke of what could occur as a resu lt: collective bargaining in the public sector is here to stay--it represents a new way of life. The ostrich-like ... posture must give way to reality. It is both gratuitous and exercise in utter futility to debate whether there shall be co 11 ect i ve ba rga in i ng an - . . . . There is social justification for collective bargaining which transcends the limited area of economic issues. This new relationship can improve the management of school systems. In a sense it fonnalizes and establishes the structure for democratic management to which 1 ip service hasbeen given for years.33 Bennion perceived that collective bargaining ity that could be engaged in by teachers. He was a legitimate activ presently believes, however, that the "new relationship" of which he er1ier spoke has not developed as it might have. He claims that bargaining has "led 33M. Lynn Bennion, "A Superintendent Views Professional Nego tiations," Utah Educational Review 62 (September-October 1968): 13. |
