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Setting the record straight

NANCY GREENE

Jersey Shore

I would like to set the record straight in regard to Eugene Moore’s letter to the editor in Monday’s Express.

His point was that he thought teachers who go on strike should not get paid.

As a teacher who was on strike back in the early 1990s, I can guarantee him, and others who think teachers get paid while on strike, that teachers DO NOT get paid when they are on strike!

In my case, not only did my pay stop, so did my health-care benefits … until I went back to work!

School districts are required to provide students with 180 days of classroom instruction, so that’s why when teachers go on strike, the school schedules must be modified to accommodate the days missed.

The days missed must also be completed by June 30th of that school year, as well, so that limits the number of days teachers are allowed, by law, to strike. Therefore, as long as the 180 days of a school year are completed by June 30th of the year the teachers were on strike, the teachers will ultimately get paid for those 180 days.

The only time pay might be withheld is if the teachers are unable to put in all the in-service days they are contractually required to put in for their individual school district!

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