Charter school teachers and unions

IN "TEACHERS unionize at charter school, a first for Mass." (Page A1, Nov. 26), Marc Kenen, executive director of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, was quoted as saying, "Generally, charter school teachers join charter schools because they don't want to work in a unionized atmosphere."

That's absolute hogwash. I worked at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School in Cambridge for a few years. I can assure Kenen that I didn't join the school because it wasn't unionized; in fact, I was greatly saddened that it was not unionized.

Moreover, discussions with my colleagues suggested that they were strongly supportive of unions and, had the school had a union, would have joined.

We came to the school for a number of reasons, but not one of them was that "we don't want to work in a unionized atmosphere."

Timothy Fukawa-Connelly
Kittery, Maine