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Madison Schools will be Closed Again Monday (Defy orders of State Union President)
wuwm ^ | 2/20/2011 | ann elise-henzel

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.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: obama; unions; walker; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: eyedigress

I have a feeling our brave Governor is not going to stand for this BS forever.


21 posted on 02/20/2011 7:22:14 PM PST by bergmeid
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To: cripplecreek

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.


22 posted on 02/20/2011 7:22:25 PM PST by ThomasThomas (If bacon grew on trees my dog would be a vegetarian.)
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To: milwguy

Let me say again as a teacher myself I’m embarrassed, but I’m not surprised, either.


23 posted on 02/20/2011 7:22:27 PM PST by redpoll
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To: milwguy

Madison sounds like a good place for unemployed teachers to go apply for work right now.


24 posted on 02/20/2011 7:24:06 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: milwguy

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.


25 posted on 02/20/2011 7:25:45 PM PST by Hamilcar_Barca
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To: Crooked Constituent


26 posted on 02/20/2011 7:27:47 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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!


27 posted on 02/20/2011 7:29:36 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: Benchim
Right now firing might be too much to hope for, but it wouldn't make me cry in my Cheerios.

My comment was just a takeoff on the inevitable comments on "Teacher sleeps with teenage boy" stories, BTW.

28 posted on 02/20/2011 7:30:12 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: goodnesswins
Monday is a HOLIDAY.

Not for the Madison schools.

29 posted on 02/20/2011 7:31:04 PM PST by xjcsa (Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
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To: cripplecreek

**Ann Arbor begs to differ.**

Ann Arbor is the Fallujah of the Midwest!


30 posted on 02/20/2011 7:33:30 PM PST by gwilhelm56 (Egypt 2011 = Iran 1979)
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To: xjcsa

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.


31 posted on 02/20/2011 7:34:45 PM PST by SteveAustin
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To: TribalPrincess2U; All
These people act like they’re being required to donate a kidney. Sheesh!

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?

32 posted on 02/20/2011 7:35:06 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: goodnesswins

“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.


33 posted on 02/20/2011 7:35:07 PM PST by EyeGuy (Gimme Shelter)
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To: JudyinCanada
This guy will do it....
34 posted on 02/20/2011 7:35:10 PM PST by Crooked Constituent
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To: redpoll
"Let me say again as a teacher myself I’m embarrassed, but I’m not surprised, either."

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.

35 posted on 02/20/2011 7:36:42 PM PST by redhead ("I think I'm the best fish filleter in the whole third grade." --Piper Palin)
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To: gwilhelm56

No you’re thinking of Detroit.


36 posted on 02/20/2011 7:39:47 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: milwguy; All

http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/calendar


Some school districts and businesses don’t observe President’s Day (Some observe Martin Luther King’s B-day in lieu of President’s Day). Madison is one of those school districts. So, even tho it may be a holiday for State workers, school teachers in Madison are taking another “sick” day :(


37 posted on 02/20/2011 7:41:41 PM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: eyedigress

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.


38 posted on 02/20/2011 7:42:44 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Saw a teacher in WI on FNC a few days ago.

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.

39 posted on 02/20/2011 7:44:12 PM PST by patton
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To: freekitty

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?


40 posted on 02/20/2011 7:46:02 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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