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In Bankrupt Detroit, Closing Schools Helps Teachers Keep ‘Therapeutic Massage’ Benefits
Nanny State Liberation Front ^ | 06/18/2010 | Nanny State Liberation Front

Posted on 06/18/2010 8:31:06 AM PDT by HandsOffMyFreedom

While the Motor City continues to hold the record for the nation's highest unemployment rate, teachers are enjoying job security and a few extra benefits that should infuriate unemployed taxpayers struggling to pay their bills.

"[T]eachers in Utica Community Schools, the second-largest school district in the state, can get up to 38 'therapeutic massage' visits at a chiropractor's office a year with no co-pay under their contract," reports The Detroit News. "Facing a $33 million shortfall, Utica Community Schools plans to close four elementary schools at the end of this school year" in an effort to "save $3.1 million."

Here's a hot tip that Utica Community Schools and its Superintendent Christine M. Johns can take to the bank: Stop paying for teachers' therapeutic massages and get back to the business of educating at-risk children who already have "difficult odds" stacked against them.

If you think this atrocity doesn't affect you, think again! The federal government has promised a significant portion of $119 million in statewide grants to "struggling" Detroit-area public schools, and that means your tax dollars could end-up in the 'healing' hands of a masseuse doing his or her part to 'repair' Detroit's broken education system.

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: education; governmentwaste; taxes; unemployment

1 posted on 06/18/2010 8:31:07 AM PDT by HandsOffMyFreedom
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To: HandsOffMyFreedom

This will not have a happy ending.

on second thought maybe it will


2 posted on 06/18/2010 8:34:40 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: HandsOffMyFreedom
If the students’ behavior mirrors that of the city, then maybe the teachers should be eligible for 38 ‘psychiatric visits.’
3 posted on 06/18/2010 8:39:32 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

I’m inclined to agree. Teaching is tough enough as it is; I can’t imagine what it must be like in a city like Detroit.


4 posted on 06/18/2010 8:46:46 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
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To: oh8eleven

Eligibility for flak jackets might be a wiser move.....


5 posted on 06/18/2010 8:49:28 AM PDT by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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To: HandsOffMyFreedom

Let me help here. Utica is in a middle to upper class neighborhood north or Detroit. But still.


6 posted on 06/18/2010 8:56:05 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: HandsOffMyFreedom

unions


7 posted on 06/18/2010 8:59:57 AM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: HandsOffMyFreedom

Too bad I don’t know how to post photos, but check out this school photo, and all the photos at this site “Detroit in ruins.” Your eyes will big out.

http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index19.html


8 posted on 06/18/2010 9:13:56 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: HandsOffMyFreedom
teachers are the new communist party members of the good ol' Russia..er..Usa.....

just as in Russia, party members get the Black sea vacations and the coal miners get the shaft....

a turn in a generation....because when I was a school kid, teachers were highly respected....I really think its because so many draft dodgers went into teaching...an easy college degree...to avoid Viet Nam and it has shaded their every move since....notice our standards and achievements have deteriorated.

9 posted on 06/18/2010 9:43:12 AM PDT by cherry
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To: HandsOffMyFreedom

How about switching it to “free stab wound treatment” or something they can really use?


10 posted on 06/18/2010 10:20:32 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland ("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
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