School Districts Closed Because Of Excessive Teacher Absences Over Right-to-Work

Michigan Capital Confidential ^ | 12/11/12 | Audrey Spalding and Jarrett Skorup

[MV=PY]

Students suffer because 'several hundred' teachers call in sick to attend right-to-work protest in Lansing.

At least 26,000 children will miss school today because their teachers called in sick or took a vacation day to protest proposed right-to-work legislation, which is expected to pass today.

Warren Consolidated Schools, Taylor School District and Fitzgerald Public Schools are confirmed to be closed. It is also suggested that schools in Detroit and St. Johns may be missing a significant number of teachers...

[ILS21R]

The puppet teachers/union members still don't get it.

This is how Snyder won. It is the result of eight years of Granholm/democrat-union incompetence.

Get back to your classroom. It's what the people voted for.

[Fee]

Forcing parents to scramble to provide baby sitters or worst take leave to watch their kids is very bad PR for teachers. Even poor people will start to grumble. Narrative for working parents are, we paid taxes and teachers are suppose to teach and watch our kids while we are at work!! Longer the teachers strike, the worst it becomes for them because the public will turn on them. Look what happen in liberal Chicago when the public school teachers struck.

[cripplecreek]

But if the UAW loses its power in Michigan, it will create a cascading effect elsewhere.

Michigan truly is the crown jewel of unions. We don't have the most union members anymore but we are the soul of American unionism. This is the most devastating thing to happen to unions in America. Its also a devastating blow to democrats nationwide who collect some $250 million dollars in union political contributions from Michigan alone.

[PapaBear3625]

I have a good friend who attended West Point, served 6 years in the Army, then worked as an electrical engineer in the electronics industry for a few years. She woke up one day and decided she wanted to teach, here in Florida. State authorities didn’t think much of the idea since she had not been “indoctrinated” by a university to become a teacher. Never the less, she took their required courses and was soon certified to teach multiple subjects. A middle school quickly picked her up, probably because she could fill any position, unlike some of her “peers” who taught subjects for years without being certified in them. Anyway, she’s been teaching for about 8 years now. I wish our kids had more teachers like her.

I would love to see more former-military teachers. Officers and NCOs spend much of their time teaching complex skills to young recruits, and that experience could be used in the schools.

As for the "uncertified" teachers you mention: I would like make teachers have to take the SAT Subject Test for each subject they teach, with failure to score at the 75th percentile (or better) being grounds for dismissal.

[cripplecreek]

After walking on the moon, Neil Armstrong went into teaching.

[Truth2012]

I have been homeschooling for 14 years. It is a lifestyle choice, and it is far more peaceful than dealing with the corrupt public schools. You can do it and your children will be so much better off if you do.

[sheikdetailfeather]

MI Right to-Work Battle: Union Members Shout Down Tea Party Counter-Protest

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/11/Union-Thugs-Shout-Down-Tea-Party-Counter-Protest-In-Lansing-Michigan?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Little Ray]

Cool. Fire ‘em all. They are probably the worst in the school districts.

If they do hire them back, make ‘em forfeit accrued pension and seniority.

[MestaMachine]

Have you done this alone, or are there several families involved? That is what I am looking into. The more kids we can rescue from the government schools, the better. I WILL go it alone if I have to. I decided that a long time ago.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Obviously, they have greater allegiance to the union than to the children and communities they are supposed to be serving.

Or as the past President of the AFT put it, "I'll begin caring about The Children when they begin paying dues."

[cotton1706]

“Actually, the teachers got a “raise” in TAKE HOME pay by not having to pay union dues.”

This is their fear. They see what happened in Wisconsin, as people dropped out of unions in droves to save money. And they can offset the additional cost of Obamacare, which of course the unions support.

[cripplecreek]

My unionista cousin is angry that they aren’t being strongly confronted at the capitol. They want a confrontation and they’re madder than hell that they aren’t getting it.

FReeper Jenk is tweeting from Lansing today.

https://twitter.com/jen5309

[cripplecreek]

2011 story

Former MEA Local Prez: Union May Lose 40% of Members – Including Him – if Teacher Right to Work Passes

[AppyPappy]

I guess education really isn’t that important.

[Truth2012]

Mostly alone. Kids do have Scouts and church and neighborhood friends. We also take fun classes with the community, like art, drama.. There are always classes at Museums.

But listen, there are always groups of people to join, or who break up and rejoin other groups. Don’t get too fixed to one group, because at some point they will annoy you too.

Build you own educational philosophy and know WHY you are homeschooling.

It is a very fluid movement. My children have each spent some time in school even. We use the system for what we need. Each child is about 98%-99% on the school’s standardized tests. The schools are just about worthless to me. Don’t look at it as being alone, look at it as being independent.

You can do it.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Thanks! The people have spoken. The unions are mad as hornets! I love it!

[cripplecreek]

The unionistas are now shouting “Shut it down”.

Waaa we aren’t getting our way so we don’t want anything to happen.

[GeronL]

Now abolish tenure

[GeronL]

How hard is it for the MSM to avoid saying that the only thing this law does is make the UNION TAX voluntary?

[cripplecreek]

Some stuff is gonna get trashed before the day is over.

All wearing that pretty marxist red.