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So, is there anything we can do as the general public to make a stink about this? It is so wrong that our teachers are treated so unfairly. How do we get it fixed? At least start?
Vote out the clowns that made the decisions in the first place.
So, is there anything we can do as the general public to make a stink about this? It is so wrong that our teachers are treated so unfairly. How do we get it fixed? At least start?
That's what all those red t-shirts were about at Moral Monday — red for education. The cuts in education are one of the big reasons people have been out there protesting every Monday since April.
Please join Progress NC, the NCAE and Public Schools First NC in Raleigh next Thursday morning at an Education Press Conference with former Congressman and Superintendent of Public Instruction Bob Etheridge. We'll be joined by members of the Old North State Caucus -- a group of veteran NC leaders who are fighting hard to turn our state back in the right direction. But we also need you there as we set the record straight on what's been done to our public schools in the last few years and call for a halt to the deliberately misleading talking points being distributed by the far right. Wear red in solidarity with our public school teachers! Let's set the record straight and make sure the people of North Carolina get the facts -- our public schools are in trouble because of reduced funding and policies that divert taxpayer money into private /religious schools. We won't be able to solve our public school challenges unless we first face them honestly.
Education Press Conference with Bob Etheridge
NC State Capitol (southside grounds near Fayetteville St.)
Raleigh, NC
Thursday, August 15th
10:30 AM
I don't think that is going to be enough. It is only going to change when the people in power put more weight in education and teaching as a profession. Unfortunately, teachers here don't really have much of a say in what goes on. Unions here have very little weight in way of bargaining power.
That's the point, azteacher. The protestors are trying to call attention to the bad education policies those currently in power in NC government are ramming through, so that when the next election cycle comes around the public will remember and vote them out.
My theory is that the state legislature wants local govts to pony up and increase local funding for education. Kind of a "Take care of your Own" approach.
So I think the next step is to get Wake Co to Wake Up. I believe the money is there. Chapel Hill can afford to fund their schools.
Unfortunately, there are many other counties who DONT have the growth that we have.
They are taking that small govt thing a little too seriously, IMHO.
That's what all those red t-shirts were about at Moral Monday — red for education. The cuts in education are one of the big reasons people have been out there protesting every Monday since April.
That's what it looked like in madison WI a couple years ago-protesting for weeks, recalled the newly-elected governor who decided the teachers no longer needed a union, and he STILL won the re-election.
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