The whole teacher thing...

So because of our states financial situation our district is having to reduce their budget to stay with in budget. I know how important this is and I am really happy that our school board and superintendant have done so for the past oh say 13 years. The teachers have been offered a pay freeze to save all the other teachers that will have to be let go. The word on the street is not too confident that it will be a majority vote to have the pay freeze. I am so not happy with that. Mostly because we will be loosing 4 of the BEST teachers at my kids school. These are the teachers that come in early, stay late, start after school programs to expose kids to music and art when otherwise they would not have it. The help put on the school play, they talk to parents like we are human and not just dumb. I am so upset about it that it has started to consume my thoughts, which I am aware that is very unhealthy. My sopution is to fire all the teachers, get rid of the union and rehire the desireable teachers not just the ones that are tenured. They would be hired based on parent evaulation, test scores...gasp....I know right they would be judged on their performance!!! Like the rest of the freaking world. I know Joe does not get a raise let alone get to keep his job just because he has been there for so long. This is my main beef with unions in general, thats a whole other blog though.
Where is the union for these teaches that have busted their ass for our kids?!? I want these teachers in our school, to make it better. This will affect our town in so many ways I dont think anyone is thinking about the long term affect this will have. SO I have gotten an idea with another concered mom, I hope it works and I will let you know...