Posted on 02/20/2011 7:01:14 PM PST by milwguy
Madison public schools will be closed Monday for the fourth straight day, amid major demonstrations at the Capitol.
So many teachers have called in sick in recent days, to protest GOP Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill, that Madison schoolchildren were told to stay home last Wednesday through Friday.
Numerous districts around the state, including the state's largest, the Milwaukee Public Schools, also were closed at various points last week.
Teachers, other public employees, and their supporters are outraged by the measure in Walker's bill, which would strip public workers of most of their collective bargaining rights. They call it an attack on unions.
Walker insists the move is needed to help balance the state's budget.
The closure of Madison schools Monday comes despite a call Sunday by the statewide teachers' union, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, for teachers to report to classrooms.
I have a feeling our brave Governor is not going to stand for this BS forever.
Monday is not a Holiday for all schools, I know that a schools district near has both Feb 11 for Lincoln’s birthday (actually Feb 12) and Feb 21 for Washington’s birthday (actually Feb 22). Why take one when you can have two.
Let me say again as a teacher myself I’m embarrassed, but I’m not surprised, either.
Madison sounds like a good place for unemployed teachers to go apply for work right now.
It’s not a Wisconsin holiday. Maybe in a few districts but other than the Post Office being closed it’s not much of a holiday here. It was scheduled as a state employee furlough day by former Democrat governor James Doyle’s administration. The Madison union is so radical they’re not even following the state WEAC advice. It’s hard to get to the left of WEAC but they are.
Diana - Thanks for your FReeping on this issue.
It’s great to have someone who is local and can report to the rest of us on the stuff that is whitewashed/disappeared by the LSM.
Keep the faith!
My comment was just a takeoff on the inevitable comments on "Teacher sleeps with teenage boy" stories, BTW.
Not for the Madison schools.
**Ann Arbor begs to differ.**
Ann Arbor is the Fallujah of the Midwest!
This isn’t surprising. The teachers could take the weekend off while the out of state union protesters were bussed in.
Then when work starts up Monday the teachers take off again.
This isn't about the unions. It is about the survival of the democrat party. Unions are the cash cows of the democrats. Public sector unions funnel TAXPAYER money, their dues, paid from their salaries, with our tax dollars, to the democrat party. It is a huge money laundrying scheme that MUST end or the republic is doomed.
Look who's trying to buy the election
According to The Wall Street Journal, this makes the public-sector union the biggest spender of all the outside groups. The National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union rank among the top five. Collectively, these three unions representing millions of public workers -- only the SEIU is majority private -- are devoting an estimated $170 million to an election Democrats insist that they are losing because of the nefarious influence of outside money.
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Got it?
“Monday is a HOLIDAY.”
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Why should lazy, parasitic Commies get a paid day off in celebration of two great Presidents who furthered the cause of FREE America.
A couple of the images I saw caught women's faces so contorted with rage and hate that I was taken aback. You don't need to feel any embarrassment. They are not LIKE you, as Rush so often tells us. They are NOT LIKE US.
No you’re thinking of Detroit.
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/calendar
I’ll bet you’re right. He just has to bide his time. Let them protest til the cows come home, and let the dems stay awol to boot.
She was proudly waving a sign -
“Support Workes Rights!”
I didn't mistype that - that is what her sign said.
Seems like the union teachers need to fired for incompetence.
Furthermore, when a Wisconsin teacher reaches retirement age (and this goes even for those who left the classroom many years prior) the union reps call them in and inform them of the best places to retire to make their retirement checks go the farthest. Arizona was at the top of the list a couple of years ago and may still be, as far as I know.
Since these teachers paid NOTHING for their retirement, it is 100% Wisconsin taxpayer money that is funding this. Don’t you think that it is just a little lhypocritical of them to recommend spending it outside of the state?
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