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If Teachers Won’t Teach, Follow Ronald Reagan’s Example and Fire Them
Townhall.com ^ | August 5, 2020 | Bob Barr

Posted on 08/05/2020 10:17:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/05/2020 10:17:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Oh, he didn’t fire them ... they quit.


2 posted on 08/05/2020 10:18:17 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Kaslin

My local teachers do fine.

This is another area where people want to nationalize education. I disagree. If we were to nationalize education, my town’s superior schools would be dragged down to the mean. That would kills my home’s value.

Why is it everyone is interested in nationalizing everything. Schools opening or not is up to the State or Local Board. The government has NO say.

Did ANYONE take 4th grade civics?


3 posted on 08/05/2020 10:20:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Kaslin

Save America!

Defund the Education System!


4 posted on 08/05/2020 10:21:17 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Fire anyone who won’t come to work.


5 posted on 08/05/2020 10:22:06 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Kaslin

I agree, teach or resign.


6 posted on 08/05/2020 10:23:18 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Kaslin

There is a fallacy in the reasoning.

Teachers are local and not subject to Federal jurisdiction. Teachers are employed by local school boards that are owned by the teachers unions.

The function of educational funding is to line the pockets of educators


7 posted on 08/05/2020 10:24:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t think they should be fired. Some of them may be old or have conditions. I don’t blame them for not wanting to work. But just let them take the year off if that’s the case. Find someone else to do it instead. They shouldn’t keep the schools closed because some of them don’t want to work.


8 posted on 08/05/2020 10:24:27 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Kaslin

I so agree!

And yes, he fired them!


9 posted on 08/05/2020 10:24:53 AM PDT by Guenevere (Press On!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

About half my property taxes go toward schools where the buildings are closed and teachers aren’t teaching.

When do we get rebates - where is this $$ going?


10 posted on 08/05/2020 10:27:20 AM PDT by Breyean
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To: Kaslin

Agreed! This virus scare is ridiculous. ( maybe if a particular teacher Is elderly with a serious medical condition — the group that has risk— let her/him choose If they’re still nervous ——— everyone else gets back to work and we can try to study how we let our politicians scare an entire country into Submission and unemployment


11 posted on 08/05/2020 10:27:42 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Vermont Lt

Did ANYONE take 4th grade civics?


Certainly. The teachers unions taught them all of this.... /s


12 posted on 08/05/2020 10:28:01 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Kaslin

Look at Portland and Seattle. We’ve seen what kids are taught in school. Shut down all government schools, fire the commie teachers, and start from scratch. Why would anyone send their kids to that sh1t show? Just to get them out of the house? Home school or private school. Do what you have to do. The government schools are destroying our nation on purpose.


13 posted on 08/05/2020 10:28:07 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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About half my property taxes go toward schools where the buildings are closed and teachers aren’t teaching. When do we get rebates - where is this $$ going?

I've been asking this for months.

14 posted on 08/05/2020 10:28:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: Kaslin

Trump could benefit by tweeting less, and reading the comments on FreeRepublic more.


15 posted on 08/05/2020 10:28:46 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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You can do better Bob Barr.

Who in a blue state is going to fire a union teacher for not going to work?

16 posted on 08/05/2020 10:29:21 AM PDT by JonPreston (Covid19 is communist Chinese bioweapon)
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To: Brilliant
I don’t blame them for not wanting to work. But just let them take the year off if that’s the case. Find someone else to do it instead.

That creates its own problems--the one year temps are going to feel that they have some rights when the virus scare is over.

17 posted on 08/05/2020 10:30:19 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SpaceBar

You are very wrong and ignorant.

He knows what he is doing and has sound reasons for not following the foolish advice of the Free Republic peanut gallery

Let him be


18 posted on 08/05/2020 10:32:07 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kaslin

L A teachers fire them all. Offer them a job doing freeway trash cleanup in the center divider


19 posted on 08/05/2020 10:33:03 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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It’s not safe to be in a room with 30 kids but it’s OK to march with 100,000 of Sharpton’s a-holes in DC.


20 posted on 08/05/2020 10:33:09 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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