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Usually a compromise is worked out, he said, between the teacher and the principal or between the teacher and the Superintendent. Only rarely do disputes come before the School Board in a formal grievance procedure, according to the Superintendent.
School Board policy is not grievable. Bloomer continued. Grievances pertain only to the application of policy. As an example, he said that the Board may set 8:30 for the time that all teachers have to begin the work day. If one teacher is Tired for tardiness while another who continually shows up late is only reprimanded, then the first teacher's dismissal is grievable. “Grievances usually result from different interpretations of policy,” he said.
At the June Board meeting. Bloomer emphasized that the Rappahannock School Board could not adopt the new grievance procedure proposed by the State Board until after it had been formally approved.
The School Board then voted unanimously to retain the existing grievance procedure minus binding arbitration. Before the vote, chairman Beverly Massie asked for comment from the other Board members with no response. After the vote, Bomberger questioned why the Board had left out binding arbitration.
Mrs. Massie replied that
she’d read information from the State Department of Education, talked with administrative personnel in other school divisions, read articles on binding arbitration in periodicals and newspapers and then for
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