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...large city (see chart page 18). The board wanted them to work an extra half-hour; it also wanted to cut some teachers' sick days from ten to five a year and reduce the number of their preparation periods. Most elementary teachers have two 45-minute prep periods a week; high school teachers have five. Shanker admitted that prep periods, which are nominally intended for schoolwork, are often used by teachers to "smoke, knit and shoot the breeze." But the union refused to compensate for a reduced number of teachers by raising maximum class sizes above the 32 students...
...school day. Considering the financial crisis, that did not seem an unreasonable sacrifice for New York City's teachers, who have among the best fringe benefits in the nation. Their teaching day, for example, is only six hours and 20 minutes; yet most elementary teachers also have two "prep periods" a week, while secondary teachers have five. The school board did offer a small salary increase for the teachers, who now make between $9,700 and $20,350 per year−but Shanker rejected it as "miserly." Last week the teachers demonstrated their support of his bargaining position when...
...tempting as it is to blame the administration and the Faculty for the failings of student government at Harvard, they are not the only guilty parties. Students are perhaps equally responsible for the present system of impotent committees. Unlike most high schools or prep schools, Harvard is not a self-enclosed community where students spend eight hours a day, five days a week studying and playing for four years. And unlike high school, being elected to a student committee at Harvard does not mean you are the most popular or best-looking kid in the class. Most students couldn...
There the dean's office breaks down the freshmen into several broad categories such as prep or public school background and science or art preferences. Then each takes a chunk of the class and pores over each housing request until they get a feel for their charges. Then they step up to the bargaining table. By trading with other advisers they try to put together as many harmonious rooms as possible, rooms with common interests and traits and little potential conflict...
...dean's office tries to grant as many requests to people as possible, yet at the same time they are careful not to overload an entry-way with too many similar types, such as prep school people or pre-meds. "Many people ask 'Give me a Californian,''' Young says, "but the dean's office won't sacrifice an entry's geographical variety unless it is unavoidable...