‘and DID NOT CHOOSE TO TAKE IT FROM YOU’
of course they did; they knew how their salaries and benefits are funded when they chose the profession...
‘all because they get a couple months off.’
my ire is not due to their leisure time, but how they walk off the job and then extort remuneration from the taxpayers, which, btw, is the very same reason the author wrote this piece to begin with...
‘Sorry but you’re blaming the wrong people for the wrong reasons’
as stated, I’m griping about the very people who walked off the job on my dime...
‘just plain not understanding how your government is deliberately screwing the education system.’
I understand only too well how governments screw everything they get their mitts on, and how school administrations are merely political pawns...I also know a unionized labor force (NEA)is part and parcel of the governmental swamp...I would hope you agree with me that the only path forward is to privatize education after the eighth grade, give the competing high schools the capacity to eject disruptive students, and end federal funding altogether, except for selective scholarship allowances...
But they didn’t. They didn’t force the state legislature to increase taxes, the legislature could have balanced the budget in other ways. Again, in AZ the people had passed numerous bills to fund the schools through other sources, which the state legislature then spent the money elsewhere. State budgets are big, there’s a lot of money available if they’re willing to use.
Sometimes they have to walk off the job. AZ legislature has been glad handing the school budget for a decade, saying they’re going to fix it, getting things on ballots, and then doing nothing. At some point the BS needed to stop.