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Show 132 ought to be involved some way in the parents will process.37 negotiations become involved in the process and what the effects of such involvement would be are unanswered questions at this Lavor Chaffin of the Deseret News believes that strong are necessary to good schools and that such with teacher association alism." to reason are some to primarily especially day of the "new profession to even reject indications--however slight they may be--that may be for their for the strike, the "sign-or-elsell were own are so interested in collective While teachers, District, have shown that they teachers have shown that they same In a protection and security rather protection of the public. forced into backing down. tiations do not meet support school programs and in the Granite School not afraid to out principals predicts that such principals will the teacher associations bargaining bill than parents in this principals writing. militancy.38 There one approval On this basis, he tually appeal teacher Whether are can be July of 1976, the Granite Board mailed contracts after it became apparent that the nego at a state of impasse.39 The teachers then quickly 3711Take Part in School Decisions, PTA Says,1I Deseret News 14 October 1976, pp. B-1 and B-3. It is also noteworthy that prior to 1976, the National PTA Bylaws stated that parents were to stay out of the decision-making processes. Now, however, the bylaws have been amended to say that while recognizing that boards of education have the authority to make decisions, parents ought to become involved in the negotiations processes. See National PTA Bylaws 176 (Chicago: National Congress of Parents and Teachers, 1976). 38Chaffin interview. 3911Granite Moves to Bypass p. E-l. GEA," Deseret News, 7 July 1976, |
