Add Arizona to the list of red states with crappy education funding and pissed-off teachers who have had enough. After teacher walkouts in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky, Arizona teachers have voted to walk out on Thursday to demand the state begin restoring some of the $1 billion in funding that's been cut since the great recession.
As I see more teachers hold the legislatures feet to the fire and say, "Enough of this bullshit", I wonder if Trump being elected and DeVos being put in charge of the DOE was the thing they needed not only to stand up and bring the fight, but the thing that ensures they get enough local support to be able to do it.
It's not like DeVon even tries to hide or speak in dog whistles about her utter contempt for public education. I think these two are the catalysts that were needed.
Could you add fully fund the federal agencies so that we can actually deliver the service the public expects of us? Many offices at 50% manning and morale is in the toilet.
Personally, if I was threatened with the prospect of prison if I went on strike, I’d just fucking resign. It’s not like there’s queues round the block to be a teacher. And there are plenty who are as Bolshevik as I am. Even if only 10% of staff resigned, I think difficulties would be created.
In the uk, based on the 4 schools I taught in, over 12 years, I’d say fewer than one in ten were Tories. To the point where if someone was right of centre, it was noteworthy. That’s normal classroom teachers. One you started talking to those on the leadership spine, more and more crawled out the wordwork. Of course, my survey results are small.
My sampling of teachers is small; my wife's daughter reaches at an inner city school and two of my neighbors are teachers. All are democrats. but my sampling is limited to PA, not the red states.
As I see more teachers hold the legislatures feet to the fire and say, "Enough of this bullshit", I wonder if Trump being elected and DeVos being put in charge of the DOE was the thing they needed not only to stand up and bring the fight, but the thing that ensures they get enough local support to be able to do it.
It's not like DeVon even tries to hide or speak in dog whistles about her utter contempt for public education. I think these two are the catalysts that were needed.
Could you add fully fund the federal agencies so that we can actually deliver the service the public expects of us? Many offices at 50% manning and morale is in the toilet.
Probably what irks me the most is WSJ's tone of bewilderment. How can it not work???
KA-PLOX!!!!
Ellie is not a threat.
EXACTLY! CAPSLOCK IS LIKE. A TRAINING WHEEL FOR GIRLS. OR SOMETHING.
I have a feeling banning educator's strikes won't be popular in CO lege. I'll do a little digging and update with what I find out.
the worst key placement ever? HA I re-mapped it a long time ago!
Teechas aren’t stupid.
Personally, if I was threatened with the prospect of prison if I went on strike, I’d just fucking resign. It’s not like there’s queues round the block to be a teacher. And there are plenty who are as Bolshevik as I am. Even if only 10% of staff resigned, I think difficulties would be created.
The same people who don’t want to pay for street lights coz they don’t go out after dark.
In the uk, based on the 4 schools I taught in, over 12 years, I’d say fewer than one in ten were Tories. To the point where if someone was right of centre, it was noteworthy. That’s normal classroom teachers. One you started talking to those on the leadership spine, more and more crawled out the wordwork. Of course, my survey results are small.
My sampling of teachers is small; my wife's daughter reaches at an inner city school and two of my neighbors are teachers. All are democrats. but my sampling is limited to PA, not the red states.
Keep you out of mischief for a couple of hours tho
"We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us." But that's not true for teachers.
Nope, they can still quit. Which will happen.
Your last line saved you from my space-loving nerd-rage.