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We ❤️ Gompers Preparatory Academy!
It's incredible what this Gompers Middle School Student said in 2004 at the School Board Meeting in San Diego....
On January 12, 2021
the Board of Education and Superintendent Marten took action to approve our founders’ on-loan agreements. A motion by Trustee Whitehurst-Payne, seconded by Trustee Beiser, was approved 5-0 for the issuance of on-loan agreements for the 4 personnel at GPA (Riveroll, Maples, Garcia-Ramirez and Franceschi) for as long as these employees choose to remain at GPA. Thank you GPA parents, community members, alumni, staff and students for your hard work and heart work to save our founders. You did it!
Teachers and Staff
FACT: The majority of Teachers and Staff signed a letter of support for our Founders. HOWEVER the SDEA/GTA Reps that are current teachers at Gompers Preparatory Academy DID NOT sign the letter. Individually they did not support our schools founders! If they say they do, then why didn't they sign the letter of support?
How the Union Stopped Innovation at My School
As a Teacher, Why I Fight for Freedom From Union ‘Representation’
As a Teacher, Why I Fight for Freedom From Union ‘Representation’
San Diego, CA (June, 2020) The union invaded our Gompers in 2018 under the false premise that the school was not serving teachers well. They brought divisiveness and sought to end innovation – and therefore success – at the school.
So far they are getting their way by deceiving our community and brutalizing parents, good teachers, and our leadership. Our school has again become unsafe, not from threat of gang violence or drugs but from something just as corrosive: the greed and power of so-called democratic unions.
As a Teacher, Why I Fight for Freedom From Union ‘Representation’
As a Teacher, Why I Fight for Freedom From Union ‘Representation’
As a Teacher, Why I Fight for Freedom From Union ‘Representation’
San Diego, CA (June, 2020) The invasion started on a Friday morning. A letter – written by a “committee” of eight teachers – was placed in our mailboxes. They claimed their efforts would make Gompers “even greater.”
Since the union invasion, it’s become clear the “committee” went behind the backs of the most senior teachers and dedicated staff at Gompers, including myself, to sneak in a union. Gompers leadership has an open door policy, yet the “committee” of just eight teachers formed without any attempt at conversation, collaboration, or transparency. They got signatures using deceptive tactics and ambushed the rest of us with their sudden introduction letter. Two of the “committee” members no longer even teach at Gompers.
Our History
"I sat in that room and heard the parents pleading with a union rep from SDEA, ‘Please help us.’ And the union representative said, ‘I know this may sound hard, but my responsibility is to the teachers, not to the students.’ And parents just started to weep."