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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This will not have a happy ending.
on second thought maybe it will
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.
Eligibility for flak jackets might be a wiser move.....
Let me help here. Utica is in a middle to upper class neighborhood north or Detroit. But still.
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
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.
How about switching it to “free stab wound treatment” or something they can really use?
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