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Show 133 approved "under protestll by large a gaining legislation existed, If collective bar the teachers would not have had to signing "under protest" for there would have been machinery resort to provided to resolve the impasse. may very well serve as "professional control" an However, the 1976 Granite situation indicator to legislators who fear of education and who favor lay control bargaining legislation no margin.40 is needed because teachers are that tired of strikes and will back down when boards get tough. No doubt there gaining for people who sincerely oppose collective teachers because it is not do. Such there is a claim that are an something "public servants" should attitude is countered by teachers who claim that difference between professionals, share in the bar a professional due to their decision-making and a servant. knowledge, should process in the public school They at least system. The UEA has declared that such sharing is the democratic way to schools.4l the Opponents of teacher power claim that since boards of education does exist.42 agency, or employees They the right members of local elected to control the schools, democracy reason further that no buiness, government unit of authority is to decide what required jobs should be done to allow its or how they Teachers Settle with District,'! Deseret News, July 1976, pp. B-1 and l4-B. 41 41 are governmental 40"Granite 9 run "Neqot iat i ons=-A Two Way Street, (November-December 1967): 7. II Utah Educational Review 42Darld J. Long, Executive Secretary, Utah School Boards Association, interview, Salt Lake City, 6 July 1976. |
