Posted on 05/14/2011 5:39:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Today wraps up a week of Capitol protests by the California Teachers Association and other groups that oppose cuts to the state's budget.
Mark Paul, a former Bee editorial writer suggests that it refocus its efforts:
Don't tell me that failure to extend the temporary taxes will result in big cuts in schools, including a shorter school year. Show me. Announce that, beginning Monday, every teacher in every school in the district of every Republican legislator who has failed to vote for the Governor's budget plan will be out sick. So will every other school employee. There will be no janitors to unlock the school doors, no bus drivers to pick up the kids, no principals to shuffle the papers. Everyone will be laid up with an epidemic of heartsickness over what will happen to the schools if the current temporary taxes aren't extended. And the epidemic, they can make clear, is sure to last through the remainder of the school year.
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every teacher in every school in the district of every Republican legislator who has failed to vote for the Governor’s budget plan will be out sick.
clearly illegal. please do things like that & keep doing them - thats the ticket!
How can this be? The unions are claiming their top priority is the education of the children. How are the kids going to get an education when the union members are out partying instead of being in the school?
Obviously, this has nothing to do with educating of the children. It's about union greed. It's about cash - lots and lots of cash.
The “union’s” top priority has never been the education of students, it has been to fatten union coffers and gain power. The word “tenure” also proves has the interests of the teacher in mind and not the student. There are, however, many teachers who individually have their heart in the education of the student but collectively the union is simply for the union.
I agree with you. Many teachers have become the victim of union greed. Contrary to what many think, teachers do not all move in lock-step to union demands. That is at the heart of Scott Walker’s proposal to make the unions collect directly from its members. Many of these members would cease to pay and the unions are aware of it. Scott Walker is absolutely correct in his stand that the government has no business in becoming the collecting arm for unions but the unions know that, without automatic deductions, their coffers will suffer.
I agree with you. Many teachers have become the victim of union greed. Contrary to what many think, teachers do not all move in lock-step to union demands. That is at the heart of Scott Walker’s proposal to make the unions collect directly from its members. Many of these members would cease to pay and the unions are aware of it. Scott Walker is absolutely correct in his stand that the government has no business in becoming the collecting arm for unions but the unions know that, without automatic deductions, their coffers will suffer.
Frank, most of them have been that way from the very beginning. Look at the structure and the philosophy of each. Top down iron fisted control. They each pretend to be working for the "masses", the common worker, and against the greedy corporations/those who control the means of production and the money. The unions give almost all of their campaign contributions to Democrats while most of America, including union workers, are conservative.
We know that the Democrats, media, unions are basically Communists and that what the say and promise versus what they do are not the same. If you rebel they send the thugs after you. What is true of one is true of the other.
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