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I repeat: FIRE EVERY TEACHER THAT GOES OUT ON STRIKE!
Abolish the teacher's union in Chicago and hire teachers whose reason for going into teaching is to TEACH CHILDREN!
I am so sick and tired of these union thugs holding America's children hostage to their bully tactics. And people wonder why bullying is such a problem in our public schools?
Lead by example. What a horrible example union teachers set in this country.
What's really sad, if you fired them all and hired ALL new teachers, you could probably fill the ranks with new teachers in under a week, and get better teachers in the process.
Only thing, make Union participation VOLUNTARY. If they don't want to join, they don't have to.
Don't even go there......I have neighbors that are teachers and family members that are teachers and none of them are starving......and none of them ever put in as many hours that I did before I retired from the printing business!!!!!!! They are paid good for the time they work during a 12 month work year that they don't fully work....
I didn't say otherwise. What I'm saying is that if the pay and work environment is so great I would think people would be jumping at the chance to get on the gravy train. It is actually an easy career field to join midlife. They had to make it that way because they couldn't get enough teachers to fill the classroom during a good economy. I just encourage people who think it is so easy to try it. It is still a field with vacancies.
Illinois, Obama's old stomping ground, is turning into a 3rd world country. His number one guy was sent their to fix it. LOL. You get what you deserve Chicago. I read a month or so somebody was shot a block away from the orator's home there he bought from the mobster Rezko. I guess he feels his neighborhood going to sheet now as bammer is building a home and running off to Hawaii. Some community organizer that town spit out.
It is funny to see the Mayor of Chicago fighting the teacher's union. Talk about turn around being fair play. I wonder if the Chicago teachers will go out and riot like their brothers and sisters did in the WI teacher's riots last year?
Luckily, we don't need to know what motivates them. All we need to know is that enough teachers can be had at $x per yr and that if a municipality is paying $(x+y) per yr, then the teachers are being overpaid $y.
Not only is this a great equation for teachers but it's great for all employees. It doesn't matter if they're wiping runny noses, risking their lives, or collecting tolls. The only question is whether or not a comparable quality of product can be had for less money.
Using business-speak to describe the process of educating human children is part/parcel of what is destroying the American education system.
This is what happens in blue states. The government has debt as far as the eye can see and is incapable of standing up to the unions.
I love it. Illinois deserves it for inflicting the country with the failure in the White House. I hope the whole state implodes; well, just Chicago really.
LOL yup. The Romney campaign should show a clip of the teachers protesting, flash their average pay according to their own unions ($71K before benefits), maybe flash the Chicago property tax rate for good measure and ask "This is what's going on in Obama's hometown, do you want this in yours?"
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