Opposition to the Garnet Valley school board’s proposal to outsource some staff support positions will surface at the board meeting on Tuesday, March 15, according to a press release from the Garnet Valley Educational Support Professionals Association.
GVESPA will deliver more than 1,500 signatures from district residents who are against the plan. At least 150 parents, supporters, teachers and employees facing this threat will attend the meeting; many will wear their association shirts and hold signs asking the school board not to outsource, the release said.
“We have been living under the stress and uncertainty of an outsourcing threat since the start of this school year, and it’s time for the school board to abandon this troubling idea and find ways to keep our schools stable and put the interests of our students above all,” GVESPA President Tina Jaep said in the release.
Jeep said seeing the support staff workforce in-house maintains administrative control for the district and accountability to the public and she question whether the support staff’s salaries and benefits are placing economic pressure on the district.
“If our entire unit made up 15 percent of the district’s budget, I’d be shocked,” she said in the release.
Jaep pointed out that some of the employees have dedicated their entire lives to the district and do not deserve the stress that the outsourcing threat has generated.
“More than anything, when you outsource, you bring unknown strangers into these schools, you create a transient workforce because you remove the pay and benefits required for stability,” Jaep said in the release. “That impacts our kids, and if that’s your main priority – our students – then you will abandon this idea once and for all.”
The meeting, which starts at 7 p.m., will be held at the Education Center, 80 Station Rd., Glen Mills, Pa., 19342.
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