[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.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Even thugs can't force the normal taxpayers from paying money they don't have.

I think the "plan"is for EVERYONE to be a public "employee" and Big Brother will dole out the money.