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The "strike" is being held as part of International Women's Day - it is not a date chosen by the teachers. It is a world-wide day of protest.
Yes that is strangely not scheduled for a weekend. Let's see. 'Sorry but being a professional I can't attend because it is on a week day'. Or 'because I only work part time I feel a responsibility to be at work during the week'.
Amazing.
The strike is held on a weekday to maximize the impact of women's absence. If it was held on a weekend and had no inconvenience to you would we even be discussing it?
I wonder what this person's opinion was of the rhetoric by the speakers of the Women Day march in DC ?
The ones that talked about "f*** Trump" and "bombing the White House"
Interesting that this person thinks she knows the heart of people she doesn't even know.
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Originally Posted by poppydog
I don't doubt that there may have been a few people who said those things, or similar things, during the Women's March just because there were so many people there, but by and large it was very peaceful from all accounts I have read and that was NOT the tenor of the march as a whole. There were no arrests at the Women's March. You may be confusing the peaceful Women's March with the protests the day of the inauguration when there were arrests, including arrests of journalists just there to cover what was going on.
Did you listen to Ashely Judd's speech at the DC Women's Day ??
Based on the crowds cheers, her vulgarity and hate speech
were very popular.
Even if I felt that women rights were under attack (which I don't)
I would not have anything to do with that type of a hate filled movement.
Did you listen to Ashely Judd's speech at the DC Women's Day ??
Based on the crowds cheers, her vulgarity and hate speech
were very popular.
Even if I felt that women rights were under attack (which I don't)
I would not have anything to do with that type of a hate filled movement.
I remember. Fitting that the most intolerant area's school system is closing that day. Chapel Hill-Carrboro.
Did you listen to Ashely Judd's speech at the DC Women's Day ??
Based on the crowds cheers, her vulgarity and hate speech
were very popular.
Even if I felt that women rights were under attack (which I don't)
I would not have anything to do with that type of a hate filled movement.
Same here! I only saw part of her speech and it made me sick as I don't want to be represented that way. As a teen in the UK, one of my heroes was MLK. He was classy, intelligent, and IMO, America's Gandhi - or maybe Gandhi was India's (ML) King? He showed us how to respectfully do civil disobedience. I think the violent speech, intolerance of those who don't agree with them is a horrible example for our youth.
I grew up in an area where unions were strong and their history well understood/appreciated. Strikes happened for clear and valid reasons decades ago, most often when the industrial revolution allowed companies to take advantage of immigrants and the rising lower classes before the government could catch up with laws that protected them on some basic level.
That being said, even in union-heavy areas, the prospect of a strike isn't taken lightly (at least by old-timers). They seem to recognize that constant threatening and blustering takes away the gravity of the message and just makes everyone take it less seriously. It weakens the effect greatly, if a strike is held over every grievance. And, speaking from experience, those who want to organize a strike for more minimal reasons (even in the union-heavy areas) often come across as less savvy and less intelligent. If you try to exercise what used to be the nuclear option for everything, it becomes meaningless, childish, and it's abundantly clear that you don't know how not to overplay your hand.
So yes, those with the privilege to do so (Chapel Hill teachers) might go and feel they are championing a cause. Fine. But don't expect to get a lot of respect for it, because many people just don't view this as all that bright, even if we're not the biggest fans of the current administration. Meanwhile, teachers out in Brunswick County or Vance County or wherever will likely get a backlash for calling out en masse without arranging for a sub, if they fall for the ineffective, short-sighted vision promoted through Chapel Hill-Carrboro's action here (not saying they will, though). Way to be, Chapel Hill. Keep being your uniquely insensitive, privileged, tone-deaf-to-the-rest-of-the-state self. Some things will never change.
Has anyone said WHY there will be a Day without Women? What has happened legislatively to bring this about? What are they fighting? Or is this merely a pre-emptive protest of something that may possibly happen in the future?
And are all the non-working people taking vacation time, or sick time? That certainly would make a difference in my perception of the effort.
Anybody that wants to take vacation and gather outside for whatever legal reason they choose - awesome. If CHCSS has looked out at the schedule and seen that some huge percentage of staff is taking vacation that day, then thank you to them for getting ahead of the problem.
I will say that for my ~13 years involvement in WCPSS, there are times teachers CAN'T take off because there's enough folks already signed up.
Women still don't have equal rights, you know?
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Why is this not on a Saturday? Students do not appear to be the no. 1 priority. Another day off for the part timers (teachers).
Pretty hard to have an impactful message regarding what a "day without women" in the workforce looks like on a day when most career women have the day off anyway.
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Will their be a "man oriented" holiday as well? If not, how will all the little boys being taught at these schools feel once they realize their "education" is being delivered via biased feminist agenda. This method of "education" is sure to produce a higher ratio of misogynistic wife beaters and serial killers.
Wanna try that again? I'm not sure what you're trying to say here?
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