How to Lose Friends and Alienate a Community

Have a contract that says you pay your teachers on the last working day of the month.

Don't pay your teachers.

Blame it on somebody else.

Have that somebody ele (in this case, WSIPC) email your teachers and say, "No, it's not us, it's your District Office."

Finally pay your teachers two weeks after you were supposed to.

Have this all play out in front of a very appreciative media, happy to have red meat thrown their way during the Christmas downtime.

Also, throw in painfully extended contract negotiations.

Thank you, administrators of the Touchet School District, for showing why even small districts can use their union reps.