MBUSD responds to protesting teachers, letters will be written
by Anna Mavromati Many Manhattan Beach school teachers will not be writing letters of recommendation for students this year, but district superintendent Michael Matthews says he will. Last Tuesday the Manhattan Beach Unified Teachers Association announced that teachers will not be writing letters of recommendation or engaging in other extra-curricular activities this year as a protest over negotiations about salary increases for teachers. In a letter to the district community Matthews said that the district will see to letters of recommendation for students. “If our teachers refuse to write the recommendations and the deadline is approaching, I assure you, the recommendations will be written,” Matthews wrote in his letter. “School administrators, district administrators, board members and I will write them. But our recommendations will not be as meaningful to colleges as a teacher’s recommendation. I am saddened by the MBUTA action, and I believe that many teachers are saddened too. I know our teachers. They love their jobs and they care deeply for their students. So if our teachers follow MBUTA’s harmful directive, you have people in our district who will intercede on behalf of…
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