Posted on 06/18/2012 1:33:16 PM PDT by Sopater
“fire then lot” should be “fire the lot”.
Close the public schools let the children run wild in the streets, it can’t get any worse there as it is.
> the teachers union is set to strike if the district does not agree to a 30 percent increase in teachers salaries.
A teachers’ strike would be the best thing for the students.
They’d have to be either home-schooled or they’d have to hire non-union teachers who’d have an incentive for doing a good job.
A perfect example of how out-of-kilter public sector union workers demands (and poor performance) and the taxpayers ability to pay for them have become. These mediocre teachers should be fired, not given pay increases. That they make this demand stridently, and issue threats along with it, is outrageous. Oh, wait, this is happening in Chicago. Never mind.
——Close the public schools let the children run wild in the streets, it cant get any worse there as it is.-——
No exaggeration. And you can save $15k/child/yr.
Wow a whole 5.5 hours to 7.5, God what a bunch whinny crybabies, but after wisconsin I am not surprised.
Poor Chicago
they make about 6, 7x what I do.
Close the schools & then contract out to Charter Schools. They’ll save money AND actually educate the children.
Governor Quinn should pull a Walker and watch the left’s heads explode.
He would definitely lose, but it would put the issue in front of the whole nation.
I suppose the next thing they’ll want is the summer off. Oh, wait, they already get that.
Vouchers!
I make more than the average teacher makes now, and less than they would make after a 30% raise.
But then again I work 9 hours a day five days a week without a built in summer vacation or the sweet retirement package they get.
And I received a real education - rather than a degree in “Education”.
Shee it ... go ‘head ‘n strike ... th’ kids’ll prolly actually LEARN sum’m
He would earn my vote... Unionized public school teachers are vastly overpaid.
Same here. Teach in my subject of qualification because I enjoy teaching.
Close the schools and pay the parents $10,000 per child to homeschool. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer.
Ah. For a moment there, I thought you wanted all of them turned into pillars of salt...
I tried that. Despite the much bemoaned lack of teachers in science and math - and a M.S. degree - I was told (in California) that I needed a degree in “Education” in order to teach High School.
Sure, as a Graduate Student I was apparently qualified to teach College students University level Cell and Molecular Biology (I was very highly rated by my students), I was apparently unqualified to teach High School students basic Science.
I loved teaching as well, and was willing to take a pay cut to do it. But I was not willing to go back to school to get a degree in “Education”. My ex wife went through that and I helped her though the nonsensical course work.
But all is well that ends well. Now I do real science every day and make more than I would have as a teacher (although the work is harder and the hours longer and the perks less). Moreover I really do good with the work I do - finding life changing novel treatments for serious diseases.
When I hear about them threatening to strike I can only think “Ronald Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers”.
Fire them all and replace them - it shouldn’t be too hard to find qualified teachers if you do not insist on a degree in “Education”.
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