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What a teachers union has done to Gompers
Uhm, I’m sorry but if you really are a staff member at GPA and this is the most coherent response you can come up with, I wonder what you believe “well equipped” to work at a school means. I’m also incredibly shocked that you are against prison reform.— August 17, 2020 10:58 p.m.
What a teachers union has done to Gompers
I would like to preface this by informing you that I am a student at Gompers Preparatory Academy, and would be able to prove this by showing my student ID if needed. Anyways, I have experienced the effects of this union firsthand. This article is only feeding you one side of the story, the side the Anti-Union staff members want you to hear. Personally, the union at Gompers has positively impacted students at school in various ways. The union for one calls for better pay for teachers, which get paid as less than the average wage for teachers in San Diego while demanding more work than most other schools in San Diego, but also calls out the administration at my school, which some years have gotten paid more than the average for administrators in San Diego. Second off, they want to give students more liberties, for example: giving students a voice into decisions that personally affect them (pretty ironic this isn't already the standard for a school who's motto is "with students first", isn't it?) and starting clubs, such as an LGBT club and a Black student Union, something that students need, as they are often segregated by characteristics they do not control such as gender, and rarely get to talk to people that are like them or that share similar interests as them due to some of the administrations policies which in my opinion are very corrupt. Not to mention, that while they claim to provide high quality education, most of their tests scores are below the average for the district, and they offer an extremely limited AP course selection, with none in Visual and Performing arts and Computer sciences, two expanding fields, which damages their chances at getting into a decent university, and therefore damages their future. Times have changed, students have changed, they always go back to the narrative that Gompers used to be a gang filled and hateful school. While that was true, the majority of my fellow classmates have no affiliations with gangs and abide by the rules, and would continue to be civil even if they were allowed to start fights. I would like to let everyone know that this article is not representative of some of the student's opinions. I just wanted pitch in my opinion, and I hope some people found this insight useful.— August 12, 2020 9:14 p.m.