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Oklahoma teachers go on strike and rally at state Capitol
https://www.yahoo.com ^ | 04/02/2018 | unknown

Posted on 04/02/2018 8:00:07 PM PDT by BackRoads775

Teachers carried signs and marched during a rally at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday calling for higher wages. Last week, the legislature in Oklahoma City voted to give teachers an average raise of $6,000 per year, or roughly 16 percent, depending on experience. Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, signed the package into law, but teachers said it was not enough. They have asked for a $10,000 raise as well as additional funding for schools and raises for support staff like bus drivers and custodians.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 10thplankofcommunism; doitforthechildren; education; homeschool; homeschooling; localnews; oklahoma; oklahomacity; publicemployee; publicsectorunions; teachers; unions; unionthugs
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1 posted on 04/02/2018 8:00:07 PM PDT by BackRoads775
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To: BackRoads775

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2 posted on 04/02/2018 8:02:34 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA/KAG!!!)
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Because making twelve thousand more per year than the state median income while only working nine months is such mistreatment.

Fire and blacklist every one of them.


3 posted on 04/02/2018 8:03:30 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Teachers are no longer about their students.

The worst case is at the College Level.

“Colleges” need to be disintermediated.


4 posted on 04/02/2018 8:05:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BackRoads775

Cut the 6k increase and redistribute to bus drivers and capital. Surely they’ll do their part.


5 posted on 04/02/2018 8:06:46 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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Wow, they make a pretty good living to corrupt and brainwash our kids. They should be fired. But we all know they will get exactly what they want. It’s for the children after all.


6 posted on 04/02/2018 8:06:53 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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Maybe give it to them on condition the shut down their unions and end ties with NEA. Hence forth, they are simply citizens employed at the pleasure of the school district.


7 posted on 04/02/2018 8:08:02 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Trump can't deliver and folds like a typical Republican, maybe he should be impeached.)
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Student “walkouts”. Teacher “walkouts”. Let’s call the whole thing off. Schools have become a waste of taxpayer dollars.


8 posted on 04/02/2018 8:09:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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Disband the public school systems and go to a voucher system. The best teachers will get massive raises. Some of the smartest will end up owning schools.


9 posted on 04/02/2018 8:13:19 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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What, you don’t like all these criminally stupid, brainwashed, Stalinist-Fascist, White-hating yoots these “teachers” are producing ?


10 posted on 04/02/2018 8:16:27 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Have you ever met an “educator” who didn’t complain about being overworked and underpaid (while sacrificing “for the children “? Maybe in the 1950’s and before,..


11 posted on 04/02/2018 8:17:19 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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While I’m glad the teachers got a raise Oklahoma has financial problems. It’s seems the teachers are to ignorant to understand it so they are pouting like spoiled children. They are losing the support of the citizenry, but, politically incorrect to say anything.


12 posted on 04/02/2018 8:18:39 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: monkeyshine

Prof. Feynman still does a great job of lectures, on YouTube.

Prof. Jordan Peterson too.


13 posted on 04/02/2018 8:18:48 PM PDT by Paladin2
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School vouchers scare all school unions.


14 posted on 04/02/2018 8:19:28 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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I saw footage on one of the news channels. If the announcer hadn’t said the group were teachers and that the venue was in Oklahoma City, I would have guess it was a “homeless” march in Boston.


15 posted on 04/02/2018 8:20:27 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (`)
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My favorite part of the media coverage is when CNN shows the salaries by state but not the cost of living.


16 posted on 04/02/2018 8:20:55 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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16% increase? That’s obscene!


17 posted on 04/02/2018 8:21:00 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: BackRoads775

If they were teaching reading and writing and arithmetic instead of anarchy and rebellion . . .


18 posted on 04/02/2018 8:21:32 PM PDT by donna (Together, Joe and Mika are a JOKA!)
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To: BackRoads775

Fire them all. Offer to hire them back at 20% less. They won’t find a better job


19 posted on 04/02/2018 8:21:34 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: BackRoads775

Home school instead! OK?


20 posted on 04/02/2018 8:22:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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