| Comment Number: | OL-10508330 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 3:19:55 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
To whom it may concern, I am a teacher for the DoDDS system. My biggest concern about the new NSPS is the fact that whenever we hear about it in a news release or conversation with any high official, from Sec. Rumsfield on down, it is always couched in the terms of what it is going to do for the system. We always hear comments like "It will give the government more flexibility," or "it will make hiring and firing easier." I have never heard it mentioned once from anyone that the NSPS will be a better system for the employees! What is not said sometimes is more important than what is said. Leaving the employees out makes me think that it won't be good for us. The fact that this has been done "under the table" so to speak also makes me concerned. What will happen to the teachers of lower level classes when their pay is linked to some nebulous "improvement?" As a teacher I am not turning out cars or computers, progress and quality of which are easy to measure; I am turning out kids, and measuring their achievements might not come for years after they are out of school. Also, having our performance rated by a supervisor (principal in our case) presents many problems. I have had a superior rating in all but my first year with DoDDS, until a new principal came who didn't like union people ( I was then the Union rep at the school) and I was downgraded to satisfactory. After I transfered to another school, my rating went right back up to superior. The NSPS system will now base my pay on those kind of ratings, which gives my supervisors powers that they do not currently have and powers that they should not have! Please reconsider the NSPS and let us keep the rights that we have fought to maintain all these years.