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Posted on 01/20/2016 12:52:07 PM PST by outpostinmass2
The Detroit Public Schools is seeking a temporary injunction against teachers after sick-outs closed 88 schools in Detroit today - the largest in a string of teacher protests.
The district is seeking relief in the Michigan Court of Claims, naming among the 28 defendants Steve Conn, the ousted leader of the teacher's union, interim president Ivy Bailey, and several groups including DPS Teachers Fight Back.
Teacher absences forced 88 Detroit schools to close today, the largest sick-out meant to call attention to large class sizes, dilapidated buildings and other problems in Michigan's largest school district.
The sick-out idled most of Detroit Public Schools' 46,000 students. It came on the same day President Barack Obama was visiting the North American International Auto Show at Cobo Hall.
"Things have been happening for so long, and I think teachers felt like they had no voice," said Lacetia Walker, an instructional specialist in special education for DPS. "This has been a way for us to draw attention to the conditions of the buildings, the fact that teachers' STEP pay has been frozen for years. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Along with the hue and cry over the water in Flint, this is an orchestrated Union/Democrat attempt to drive Gov. Snyder from office, arrest Scott Walkerism in its tracks, and campaign nationally against the EEEEEEEVILS of Republican Austerity.
The irony is that the quality of education in the classrooms went up 100% when they did.
When I was a kid, every year without fail, the teachers would go on strike as school started. It never made a difference in their teaching abilities, but they got paid more to dumb kids down. I’m pretty sure the kids aren’t missing out on anything, if they were showing up to begin with anyway.
They are missing out on free breakfast and lunch which is essentially what public schools offer today.
Sick is the correct word.
I will be happy as hell when VR headsets and customization software selected by the parent permanently replace public school teachers.
Good, just shut the schools down.
The teachers didn’t show up?............nobody noticed.
Students are probably not missing out on much.
That will teach them...or not.
Detroit is such a sad symbol of our demise on many fronts.
Not the least of which is the arrogance to think that another country can’t design and build better automobiles...and the list of US Business arrogant business decisions is not short.
With a drowning economy, education unfortunately suffers
Nobody’s learning anything in the Detroit school system anyway, at least this should save some electricity.
Will anyone notice if Detroit kids don’t go to school?
When I was a kid, we always wanted to stay home from school.
District officials are so brave. /s
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