Saturday's missed class

I was ill on Saturday so I spent several hours reading our two texts to catch up on necessary reading as school/principalship has been extremely demanding in the first month of the new year. From my experiences in Collective Bargaining class and listening to experiences shared by professor, classmates, and guest lecturers-- I think we would all have to agree with the point of view shared by Ronald R. Booth. Booth states, that the most important job of the superintendent and the school board is their role in the collective bargaining process. I agree with this assessment because if the Supt./board mess up royally in the Collective Bargaining process they may cause serious financial issues for a district. Keith Littell points out in class the major problems they had at Chester with the major mistakes made by their board and supt. in reaching their agreement with the teachers union.

Booth also pointed out that: "Successful collective bargaining can probably be best described as a process in which: a contractual settlement is reached without a strike; contractual agreements are within the board's parameters regarding economic benefit settlements and specific provisions; both the board and union emerge looking good, as though each did its job competently and fairly.