Teacher 'Subs' Rejecting Offer

The proposal offered by the school administration will not be accepted by the 29 permanent substitutes in the Ann Arbor Schools, according to one of their spokesmen. Letters were mailed to the permanent substitutes yesterday f r o m Stanley Zubel, school personnel director, advising them it is "the intent of t h e Ann Arbor Public Schools to contract you as ful 1-time teacher subject to the following conditions: (1) resolution of the elementary class size question through the fact-finding process in a manne which would make your employment possible; (2) recommendation of the principal for contractual employment based upon his actual staff ; and (3) fulfillment of routine re-employment requirements. "In addition, as a substitute in one continuous assignment, you will be entitled to one sick-leave day per month or for every 20 days of employment. Provided that there would be no violations of state and federal statutes or provisions agreed upon with the Ann Arbor Education Association and it is proposed to 7 i i contract assigned substitutes retroactively to the day of initial employment with all accrued benefits." But the letters had not been received by the permanent substitutes as of this morning and w h e n M r s . Thereasa Harper, a permanent substitute at Northside, was contacted she said that this was the same letter that was supposed to have been sent two weeks ago. "We met with Zubel and School Supt. R. Bruce McPherson on Oct. 5 and at that time we agreed to those conditions but the letter was never sent to us as promised," said Mrs. Harper. She also said that elementary school music teachers had been removed from the permanent substitute position and had received contracted letters of intent. Junior and senior high school teachers I had also been given the letters of intent she said and this is what the 29 permanent substitutes want. A meeting is scheduled at Northside at 7:30 p.m. today I for parents interested in discussing the situation with the permanent substitutes.