Posted on 03/31/2018 10:12:29 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
One-by-one school districts across central Kentucky announced their closure the day before spring break, as Republicans in the House and Senate rammed through a mystery pension reform bill.
The 291 page bill was not made public, and was inserted into a waste-sewage piece of legislation on Thursday, and then sent though the lower and upper chambers with Republicans carrying the bill.
Fayette County schools was among the first to announce a closure on Thursday night, as more than a thousand teachers called in sick from work and there were not enough substitutes to cover the absences.
“All Fayette County Public Schools will be closed on Friday, March 30, 2018 due to having more than a third of our school employees out,“the school district wrote online just after the bill passed the Senate floor.
Clark County, Jessamine County, Scott County and others quickly followed suit. On Friday morning, Jefferson County Public Schools and outlying districts also called off schools as teachers called-in in protest of the General Assembly’s move to slash benefits.
In total more than a dozen schools canceled on Friday.
Teacher’s have come out in mass in recent weeks at the state Capitol to protest the legislation. The teacher’s have promised to vote-out lawmakers voting for the pension bill
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If anyone is paying attention, what the teacher’s unions have just demonstrated is that: they are political entities, concerned with money and power, out of control of local parents and governments, for whom “education” is a very secondary concern.
“was inserted into a waste-sewage piece...” “... and then sent though the lower and upper chambers...”
In other words, a rectal endoscopy.
You just won best comment of the week.
They proved that a long time ago...their pensions have been getting stolen from them over the last 30 years, but never staged these kinds of protests - because Dems were in charge then. Now the time has come to pay the piper, and the money is gone, forcing drastic changes, and now only now they protest...because the Republicans are now in charge. They could have stopped this from ever becoming necessary, but did nothing, zilch, nada for decades.
Funny how they object to legislative tactics that the rats have been using for years.
It’s all for the children!
These are the people that will one day wake up to find their pension checks didn’t get deposited because there is no money.
Exponentials and simple mathematics don’t lie. It will happen.
View this as an opportunity, more than a thousand positions just opened up for new, healthy teachers.
I have never encountered a more entitled less competent group of people than government employees.
Gov. should pull a Ronnie Regean Air Traffic Control on them
There are 2 times as many administrators as front line teachers these days in gov’t schools. Simply assign 1/2 of the administrators to front line classroom teaching and done
We had similar issues in WV, they were health insurance and pay.
They went on an illegal walkout for 2 weeks, got most of what they wanted.
The republican Governor and both republican legislatures, school boards and superintendents throughout the state pretty much rolled over for the teachers.
Hope you have better luck in KY, not to many people here care about taxpayers.
If they fire them now, all the replacements will get the same deal as the ones being fired.
In 2019, it all changes and new hires will cost a lot less so beginning in 2019 they will be replacing as many old teachers with as many new teachers they can find .
Oh well. They walked off the job, so fire them. ALL of them.
Make it an early end to the school year, and have a hiring spree for the next school year.
So is it better if your pension collapses before or after you retire?
When I heard this on the AM radio broadcast yesterday I wash shocked.
Because that meant the schools were originally scheduled to be in session on Good Friday...which for a state as religious as KY boggles my imagination.
Solution is simple, privatize all education. State provides voucher,
Parents and students decide which school to attend. Sell all school
Real estate and other assets to pay for previous pension commitments.
Any time you have public funding of private enterprise, particular for permanent situations, it runs the risk of creating crony capitalists in bed with politicians.
An even simpler solution - First get Fed.gov out of education absolutely and completely. Second, turn over all funding and hiring solutions to local schools districts and parents. Give parents maximum control - and responsibility for success or failure. Third, ban unions from any publicly funded, government jobs.
Government and government schools closing actually is a good thing. Both are worthless as they now stand and Americans can live without them. There needs to be a better way. Both entities need to be reformed and most parts abolished.
"Nick Storm," of undetermined sex, must also be put under the magnifying glass, for he/she/it is a product of "communications" and/or "journalism" degrees. No slouches, they.
THEY ARE ALL DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE SO-CALLED EDUCATION SYSTEM. i.e. teachers and school district administrators.
Their most common National achievement in recent decades is the introduction of White Ebonics (cultural appropriation?)
Singular nouns are never formed with an apostrophe before the "s", with one or two exceptions, which are not in the body of this post.
"in mass" is a distortion of a common phrase from French, "en masse," which sounds the same but is nonsense in the twisted version.
I know, words tainted or perverted by the increased popularity of ignorance and hipness can forced themselves into the language due to the "I give up" attitude of the higher minds that monitor our language, and become "acceptable" by force of misusage.
I would think that professors, teachers, students, writers, journalists and editors who aspire to professionalism would not join the ignorant "mass."
Yo! Bitch! Wassup??
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