[Cincinatus' Wife]

California Teachers Association State of Emergency

[Graybeard58]

Heidt, who worked as a prosecutor for the state before becoming a teacher seven years ago, received a pink slip this year and said she would be out as a teacher with a budget that closes the deficit with cuts alone.

She's an attorney and decided to become a teacher? Something doesn't smell quite right.

[hattend]

Several hundred California teachers left their classrooms in the hands of substitutes Monday to participate in demonstrations in Sacramento

...proving they aren't needed.

Sometimes the story writes itself!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Parasites.

[newzjunkey]

I don't care how detailed the lesson plans are, a substitute is not the teacher assigned to the class and paid to teach it.

Taxpayer's CHILDREN are paying the price.

[Lurker]

although a majority of them came from the Bay Area

I think I see the problem...

[junta]

Memo to liberal loons, Cali is slipping into a third world country, and soon the Peace Corps will put it on the list of destinations for whacked out libkids.

[Night Hides Not]

Teachers traveled to Sacramento from as far away as San Diego, although a majority of them came from the Bay Area, said David Sanchez, president of the teachers union.

"In related news, the average IQ rose in the Bay Area yesterday, while Sacramento simultaneously reeled from a 'flash crash' in the area's average IQ."

[esoxmagnum]

Well, if the subs can do just a good of a job as the regular teachers..... fire them and hire the subs.

No brainer.

[cranked]

I gave up all hope for California a long time ago....may it go into bankruptcy kicking and screaming.... =.=

[Publius6961]

He said the union was paying districts across the state for the costs of bringing in substitutes to replace the teachers, and it also picked up the protesting teachers' travel expenses.
"It's not something the public is paying for," Sanchez said.

In addition to being thugs, ignorant, largely illiterate and arrogant, these so-called teachers (the loud and militant ones) are not normal people I would associate with. Why wpuld I trust my children to their care?

Of course the taxpayer are paying for the substitute teachers. It's all part of the bloated and unreasonable salaries, retirement and benefits that we're paying the unions, via the thug teachers' salaries.

D'OH!!
Nothing is worth not being there to teach the kids, with the certain exception of feeding their greed.
We get it.
The only consolation is what's already happening in other states : retirement checks simply stop. If that's the plan, you're welcome to it.
Even thugs can't force the normal taxpayers from paying money they don't have.