How many of you guys are at home

[gta_spec]

We need less public schools and more charter schools modeled like this:

https://www.hillsdale.edu/educationa...ol-initiative/

[OtterbatHellcat]

There sure a lot of good points and well spoken opinions in here on the topic.

My first thoughts are more than likely to not be very popular, or perhaps conducive to argument. I will offer though, that it seems I remember a time when teachers did what they did because they desired to, wanted to....for a long time, and all the while knowing you weren't going to get rich doing it.

If you wanted more than that, you should have gotten "that" degree instead.

[Delfuego]

Maybe we should just call in the Pinkertons

[Joe_K]

If I walked out of my job to demand more pay, do you know what would happen? I’d lose my job that’s what. Teachers, and every other union job are full of spineless, whiny, overpaid, under worked commies. It should be teachers play in traffic day. End rant.


“Don’t go slow, be careful” Jedi

[feal]

wtf, boulder schools are closed for a walkout on friday.... is this the same thing?

[Batteriesnare]

BIIIIGGGG difference here though - they're not walking out, they are using personal days or are being docked pay, just like taking time off from any other job for which you have the flexibility to do so. The fact that the districts cannot summon enough backup to cover their obligations is not the teachers' fault, unless you want to argue that people cannot use their personal paid time off in the manner they see fit. What they or you choose to do with that time is a lawful right as a citizen. Even more so, a lot of teachers in CO are not in any union, so be very cautious in grouping them together with a conglomerate that you distain.

The fact that they are able to generate enough momentum and agreement to organize folks to do so on the same day should be examined, regardless of your opinion of the matter that is motivating them.

If I walked out of my job to demand more pay, do you know what would happen? I’d lose my job that’s what. Teachers, and every other union job are full of spineless, whiny, overpaid, under worked commies. It should be teachers play in traffic day. End rant.


“Don’t go slow, be careful” Jedi

[Irving]

If I walked out of my job to demand more pay, do you know what would happen? I’d lose my job that’s what. Teachers, and every other union job are full of spineless, whiny, overpaid, under worked commies. It should be teachers play in traffic day. End rant.

While I generally agree, have you ever had a union job, or been a teacher?

[Great-Kazoo]

I'm curious who they think will be the ones who say OK lets pay them more, the federal .gov? All disputes over income are the fault of their administrative leaders and need to be addressed on each states level.

All these walkouts trying to mobilize sympathy, from the people we know with school age kids. It's backfired, to the point of not just the next request for $$, but anytime the request, or ballot comes up. They will vote No, as will others

Shitcan the over paid administrative personnel, reduce the over bloated budgets that pay (once again) the administrative people and perhaps change might happen. Tie that in to performance of said teachers students, then perhaps parents would be more willing to say yes to Teachers pay increase.

[DavieD55]

Give it two decades, and we'll be bent over, continually getting raped by China's superior intellectuals (both in intelligence and quantity)... who came at a significant discount to our own.

Perhaps that is their end goal. A completely dumbed down America. An idiocracy of fellow travelers and useful idiots who are easily subverted.

[Madeinhb]

Perhaps that is their end goal. A completely dumbed down America. An idiocracy of fellow travelers and useful idiots who are easily subverted.

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