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.
‘Sometimes they have to walk off the job.’
and by doing so thus force the lawmakers to raise taxes, which you claimed they don’t do...
‘At some point the BS needed to stop.’
BS in a lot of workplaces needs to stop; most people don’t have a public union advocating a work stoppage as a cudgel against the taxpayer...look, I get your point; the state governments abound in malfeasence, and are no doubt the primary culprit in this mess; so, lobby the legislators to privatize the system...then we’ll see how the teachers react...