Top teachers' rep blasts Brookfield situation

BROOKFIELD — “The lack of respect between the community and the board is appalling,” the Ohio Federation of Teachers’ president said Saturday following a Brookfield Board of Education meeting.

Many in the audience urged the board to pass a three-year tentative agreement with the Brookfield Federation of Teachers union, whose members have been working for nearly a year without a contract.

Sue Taylor, president of the OFT, said it’s imperative that the agreement be passed. Taylor said she attended the session as a show of solidarity.

Afterward, Taylor she was disappointed with what she felt was “ideology taking precedence over the real facts” regarding the needs of teachers and students. “Teachers don’t go in to make money and be rich; they go to help students and shape [students’] futures,” she said.

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