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Article: You call this school? Parents, kids feel shortchanged by Newton teachers' job action
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 12, 1994
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NEWTON -- By now, parents should have heard their children's
teachers explain curriculum at back-to-school night. Student clubs,
under the guidance of teacher advisers, should be mapping out the
year's activities. High school teachers should be quick to write
college recommendations.
But not in Newton.
A suburb whose name connotes fine schools finds itself roiled in a
contract dispute that is fraying the relationship between families
and schools. For the second time in two years, teachers here are
staging a work-to-rule job action, following the letter of their old
contract to protest the lack of a new one.
Since school opened in September, teachers have been walking into
their rooms 20 ...