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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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To: bert
Teachers are local and not subject to Federal jurisdiction.

They are members of a union chartered by Congress in 1906 under the name The National Teacher's Association NEA

They most certainly are under the jurisdiction of the Federal government. Have you never heard of the federal Department of Education?

FReegards!

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41 posted on 08/05/2020 11:36:33 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Kaslin

Starting in her mid-40s my Mom was a teacher after we all were gone to school so that is to say I have a great deal of respect for the profession at that time which was nearly 30 years ago now.

That said, teachers need to take a clue and get back to work while they can or they will be replaced by something like home schooling or remote instruction. They are not all essential.


42 posted on 08/05/2020 11:44:53 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Kaslin

Well duh my suggestion here of a month ago!


43 posted on 08/05/2020 11:45:45 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Kaslin

President Reagan had the authority to fire them. But President Trump cannot fire teachers. Teachers are hired by the individual school systems.


44 posted on 08/05/2020 11:46:38 AM PDT by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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To: newzjunkey

They must comply.


45 posted on 08/05/2020 11:48:02 AM PDT by IgnorerOfLiberals
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To: Vermont Lt
The ability to guider the conduct of teachers and their classrooms was taken out of your hands long ago when their organizations, then voluntarily joined and professional, found their concerns to be ignored by local school boards and the taxpayers to whom the boards and administrators did respond.

When they, like other public employees, were allowed to unionize, they did, and stopped being professionals. So now, the NEA and AFT juggernauts are running your schools. You are not, and never will be again, on account of not backing them in the time of their need.

In my day, up to and through the 1950s, their classroom professionalism gained from rigorous oversight by state regulations and professionally-minded colleges, and with God still in the schools and religious education still taking place in the classroom, there was no need for home-schooling at all.

46 posted on 08/05/2020 12:03:51 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Kaslin
I am disgusted by these little snowflakes...

its OKAY for people to risk their health and their lives saving people in hospitals, or fighting off rioters or serving the snowflakes up their stinking lattes in the morning...

but they are soo sooo afraid, poor things...actually having to work among the people....

47 posted on 08/05/2020 12:46:39 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Brilliant
average age of a hospital nurse is like 45 or so....

shall we just close the hospitals because they're afraid or old?....lets give them a year off with pay....

idiocy...

48 posted on 08/05/2020 12:47:46 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Breyean

Where is the money going?

Where it’s always gone: to insanely generous pensions and cadillac health bennies.


49 posted on 08/05/2020 12:48:44 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: cherry

Meanwhile, when was the last time you saw the union raise hell about TB?


50 posted on 08/05/2020 12:49:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: cherry

I wouldn’t pay them. But we don’t have slavery in this country. If they want to take off a year how do you stop them?


51 posted on 08/05/2020 12:51:46 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: newzjunkey
studies have shown that young children are the least likely to spread covid....

people who are defending teachers getting paid to sit on their large fannies because they're afraid have no problem demanding essential workers get out there and PROVIDE for everyone else....

tax holiday for those who were required to face the public daily and keep this country going....

52 posted on 08/05/2020 12:53:24 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Salvavida
"We would do better with adults that have NO COLLEGE DEGREE but are self-taught and have a passion for this country and youth."

I have no way to prove this, but my guess is that the most academic progress this country has ever made occurred when most of our teachers were NOT board certified and college educated....they were certified teachers with HS degrees...but their heart and soul was in teaching..

53 posted on 08/05/2020 12:56:29 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Breyean

I am planning on calling my local officials to request a refund on my taxes. Think of all the money saved on gas and bus drivers and crossing guards too.

I think that I will call everyday and I am going to tell all my friends to call everyday. Really put the pressure. It may not help but it will irritate the crap out of them.

This has got to stop.


54 posted on 08/05/2020 1:21:28 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: gibsonguy

Have any of these goobers ventured outside their homes since this started? I bet they have so why cant they teach? If the grocery store workers can work why cant the teachers. No work, no pay, no unemployment either.


55 posted on 08/05/2020 1:23:50 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: Agamemnon

You must be getting senile. The ATC group was Federal. The teachers in the school up the street work for the town.

I am not sure how Trump is going to fire them.

You calls call yourselves Conservatives, and yet you want the Executive branch to rule every aspect of life.

Go read the Constitution.


56 posted on 08/05/2020 2:01:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
The teachers in the school up the street work for the town.

And somehow in your mind the US Department of Education has no authority whatsoever over your school? Enjoy that happy place in your mind.

Meanwhile you might want to educate yourself with regard to exactly how involved the Federal government is with funding Vermont's Title I elementary and secondary educational outlays.

Pull those funds and watch your "superior" local tax rates rise to support your supposedly "superior" schools. Your school system is more on government welfare that you even realize.

Were you educated at one of those supposedly "superior" schools yourself? I'd write them and ask for a refund, or at least have them pay for a Civics tutorial for you at the local senior center.

I am not sure how Trump is going to fire them.

He won't have to. You will. If Title I $ are pulled from your allegedly "superior" school it will be personally up to you and your community to shell out the bux needed to make up the difference needed to keep your institutions accredited. Just think, you'll be on the hook for ALL of it!

Bet you'll want to see to it that those teachers make it back to the classrooms this fall, eh?

FReegards!

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57 posted on 08/05/2020 2:44:56 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: Agamemnon

You are delusional.

I see you picked up on the superior part of my description. It isn’t bragging. It’s the truth. And I pay superior taxes to match them.

But our kids can read and write better than any towns within 75 miles.

I am proud of that.


58 posted on 08/05/2020 3:14:38 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
You are delusional.

And your district is a welfare queen just like every other US school district is.

I see you picked up on the superior part of my description.

I even wrapped you apparent Civic illiteracy around it too.

And I pay superior taxes to match them.

And I am looking forward to you paying more if your region's Title I funding gets pulled, when your powdered princesses don't show up to class.

But our kids can read and write better than any towns within 75 miles.

I don't happen to believe what you've written, but see if they'll be reading or writing anything of substance, if their teachers on walk-out don't show up while prideful people like you continue to bend over to pay them to do nothing.

FReegards!

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59 posted on 08/05/2020 3:39:05 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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