Posted on 04/26/2018 3:16:10 AM PDT by BBell
As thousands of Colorado school teachers get ready to descend on their state capitol this week to demand billions of dollars in education funding, lawmakers are proposing jailing them if they even consider going on strike.
The proposed law pitched by two Republican legislators threatens jail time for any educator caught "directly or indirectly inducing, instigating, encouraging, authorizing, ratifying, or participating in a strike against any public school employer."
The jail term proposed by the prime sponsors of the bill, state Sen. Bob Gardner and Rep. Paul Lundeen, is six months.
"Clearly it's an attempt to limit the voices of educators," Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association, told ABC News. "All we want to do is talk to our elected representatives about funding our schools appropriately. And here are two Republican legislators who've come out with a bill that is a clear attack on public school teachers in the state."
Colorado teachers are poised to participate in a lobbying effort in Denver Thursday and Friday, prompting at least a dozen school districts in the state to cancel school.
Dallman said she expects "a couple thousand" teachers to gather at the state capitol on Thursday and "7,000-plus" on Friday.
She emphasized the "days of action" at the capitol is not a strike or even a mass teacher walkout. She said most of the teachers participating in the event will be using the two personal leave days they earn annually.
"The fact that they're using one of their two personal days ... is a pretty strong signal about how important this issue is," Dallman said.
Gardner told ABC News today that his bill would not prohibit actions like the one teachers are planning this week, and said it was "absurd" to say the proposal was intended to curb teachers' voices.
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Why do teacher's union activists always look like this?
Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association, jokes with speakers during a rally outside the State Capitol, April 16, 2018, in Denver.
Elizabeth Garlick, a teacher at North Mor Elementary School in Northglenn, Colo., waves a placard during a rally outside the State Capitol, April 16, 2018, in Denver.
Just think, these things teach children. Or indoctrinate them.
“”Clearly it’s an attempt to limit the voices of educators,” Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association, told ABC News.”
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No you bimbo.
Clearly you just want to be an activist.
TEACH. Don’t be political.
Don’t strike.
Teach.
“lawmakers are proposing jailing them if they even consider going on strike”
Good. They’re trying to prevent them from robbing the TAXPAYERS!
I don’t approve of jail. Just replace them with adults who care about children.
No need to jail them. That would be expensive for the taxpayers. Just fire them and replace them with people who care more about the children than the union.
I would like to see breakdowns of how dollars earmarked for education are spent. How much does it cost to build and maintain school facilities? What is the teacher’s salary and benefits? How much do books and supplies cost? Is it really necessary to have a computer for every student? And so on. If teacher’s are complaining that there is not enough money for schools, the burden is on them to prove it.
No, you wouldn't. The waste would make you sick. Bring back book (computer) rent!
Education has become a big money making racket. It’s truly unbelievable how much graft and waste is involved. Lots of folks getting rich at the expense of our kids but yet there is never enough money. There will never be enough money for these people, they will just find new ways to waste it in the name of “the children”.
Colorado Education Association HURTS CHILDREN !
I just wish Public teachers would quit hurting defenseless children. It takes a very cold hearted adult to hurt children.
At your school board meeting, perpetually ask why the union and teachers hurt children so much?
Why do the teacher’s union hurt children so much?
Please answer.
Why have children in Denver when they will be hurt so much by school?
Abolish ALL public sector unions. Taxpayers have NO say or place at the bargaining table.
And they should indeed jail them, all of them.
Teachers Union has gotten way out of hand and has utterly destroyed the K12 education system within this country. Jail them all...better yet, pull a Reagan and FIRE THEM!
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Actually, I would go a different route.
Mandate a graduation test that any tenth-grader can take at the conclusion of the 10th year. You pass...you automatically graduate, and you get one free year of community college within the state, and 30-percent off the second year.
If you get 20-percent of the kids to pass...you can start to lay off teachers within two years, and downsize your teaching staff by at least a thousand across the state.
“Why do teacher’s union activists always look like this?”
Because that is WHO BECOMES ‘TEACHERS’. They were RADICAL LEFTISTS when in college, they’re still RADICAL LEFTISTS.
Hard to believe, but most FReepers don’t even consider that, when they send their little tykes off to school.
And remember, they not mad at parents, they’re mad at GOVERNMENT, for that is who pays them, and that is why they ANSWER TO.
“I don’t approve of jail. Just replace them with adults who care about children.”
Not possible. First, who would hire their replacements - the administrators who are from EXACTLY the same background and probably organized the strike in the first place. Second - there is nothing better to replace them with, since they have to have an ‘Education’ Degree to teach (with some rare exceptions)...EVERYONE who graduates from these ‘Education Schools’ is THE SAME, that’s why the schools exist, to make damn sure that no one other than America-hating Leftists get access to our children.
And their plan is working EXCELLENT, as even most conservatives STILL think highly of ‘their’ public schools, the ones they think (incorrectly) that they have any control over (hint, they don’t), because ‘their’ public schools don’t have any of these animals in them (yea, right)...but that’s life, we all make choices and set priorities as parents.
That is a bald-faced lie.
This is about salaries, pensions, and health bennies.
It is idiotic to jail strikers. That has to be unconstitutional at some point. I mean, you own yourself. If you want to screw your employer and take a day off of your commitment to work for any reason, it is your right to do so without fear of criminal prosecution resulting in jail time. This is not slavery or indentured servitude.
Why can’t they just pass a law saying any teacher who walks out is automatically fired. At least that makes sense from a legal and constitutional viewpoint. How can you criminalize striking? I don’t understand this. It defies my understanding of our basic rights and freedoms under the US constitution.
Do you have a right to return to work after screwing your employer? H no! You SHOULD be summarily fired, and that is what the lawmakers should be passing. Not leaping to the lawless level of making striking a crime. That is absurd.
You know the answer. Unions attract libtard radicals. Union leadership attract and reward the most extreme of those libtard radicals. So the more communist, transgender LGBTPDQ, hostile bull dyke feminist a woman is, the more likely union hacks are to vote her into leadership.
Union leaders suck. They may have been more level headed in the early days, but they are nothing but radical leftists anymore. Then they run roughshod over the union to the point that anybody reasonable who is FORCED to join a union is completely unrepresented by these Marxist con artists.
Indeed, there is NO reason whatsoever for any government employees to be unionized, and a pox on President Kennedy for allowing the unionization of government workers. What a disaster.
I’d signed up for a plan like that in a second.
High school was a joke and boring.
I’d signed up for a plan like that in a second.
High school was a joke and boring.
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