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I care for my children at no cost to the taxpayers ... so why don’t “educators” want to do the same? (/s)

I went down to the local local demonstration today to see what my local folks were upset about. Had an errand to do at Kinko's and they were right there - convenient walk across the parking lot. Evidently, there is legislation in Nashville that has TEA (not the Party) exercised.

So, I ask one lady what was their message. She mumbled something about pay cuts for teachers and loss of tenure. The a fellow, about my age, took it upon himself to set me straight.

Here's the deal. There's no money for education because the Republicans (who just this past election won the Governorship and control of the legislature) use all the money to build roads to nowhere so their buddies can get rich.

So, what's going to happen is that public education is going to be destroyed as all the rich people (like me) either send their kids to private school or homeschool. The public schools will be left as the caretakers of the poor and underprivileged and I don't give a damn about them.

So, I might as well start killing them all now, because that is my ultimate goal. I was unable to continue this fascinating look into my plans, as some woman dragged him away, at that point.

I realize this is not responsive to the topic of the thread, but I did want to share what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears.

This indicates that they only know the surface issue as they have been told. An emotional reaction based on feelings.

Certainly they do not understand the history and the facts.

Too bad they don’t realize how much it will cost them in the long run. Too bad the hippies of the 60’s still haven’t learned.

The odd thing is that teachers are carrying the water for the Educational Establishment, which includes the Union leadership but which is much broader. There are all the national school board association, there are the administrator associations, there are the textbook publishing firms, there are the athletic associations sand related businesses. and of course the education schools, and the state education agencies.

Their joint aim is to drain as much of the monies of the states into their maws as possible. By and large the teachers earn a smaller and smaller share of this,, Every cut is felt by those at the bottom . If schools economize, it is aide and teachers who laid off first. Newer before first, of course, but teachers near retirement are pressured into leaving. Want that extra year? Well, we need a busdriver. Administrators are going to protect their staff, even if classroom teachers have to go.

Thank you, that was very interesting. Crazy people out there. I’m glad I rarely leave home.

Well, Walmart on Friday night ... teenage Russian girls arguing over the clearance racks, vaqueros Latinos looking rather guapos, tattoo’d rednecks with lots of little kids, and an astonishing array of people buying large amounts of beer.