http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002855292Mon Jun 25, 2012, 04:13 PM
HiPointDem (2,896 posts)
Ghosts of PATCO and the Coming Battle for Teachers, Police, Fire & All Public Workers
How many of those unions have no strike clauses in their contracts?
After giving up teaching more by circumstance than choice,
You were so bad they actually had cause to can your ass, huh?
I served about a dozen of the past 18 years on my school board. Since 1994,
But you were friends with the local union boss and they "secured" a job for ya.
I've watched schools remodel themselves after corporations,
If only. Corporations that don't deliver a good product die. Government bureacracies that fail actually grow.
de-professionalize teaching, gut local control by rendering boards nearly powerless and alienating parents, and squeeze budgets past the breaking point while funneling resources out of communities.
And it was you and people like you on those boards was it not. You supported the policies out of Washington, did you not. Take a look in the mirror.
For the past quarter century we have been frogs slowly boiled by corporate interests, and we have yet to jump out of the water. Next fall may be our do-or-die moment.
What interests are those, precisely? Those same corporations sponsor events at the schools your union wants to close. They have more of an investment in education than you.
It's an approaching showdown for parents, teachers, and all who care about kids, not to mention policemen, firemen, and other union workers: ignore it at your own peril because you're next.
Teachers unions seem to defend failure. Fireman and policemen? Unlike teachers, their lives are on the line when the guy beside them is incompetent.
If it comes to a strike, the CTU will need help from teachers across the country, so the smart money says be ready. This will not be a time for a timid response.
What, just because some kids in Chicago aren't get the education the public is paying for none in the coutry should?
Chicago is a front-line skirmish in Washington's drive to dismantle public education across the country, and should be considered no less. If we can't draw a line there, don't bother to wait for the fight to come to your neighborhood.
Washington's drive to dismantle public education? You mean the big government intrusions you whole heartedly supported?
Do your research this summer while you have breathing room. Sleep on what this means to you while you have time to sleep. Talk with your friends and colleagues around the country about what this means to you...while you have time and energy to talk.
Dare to dream the biggest dream.....
Next fall, be refreshed and ready with... your mind made up to fill the trenches in solidarity with your colleagues...and ultimately for your own students and schools. Big money will be throwing all they have at the CTU, and the negative effects of their PR smears will find you wherever you live, so better get a head start.
Yes, ignore the needs of your customers because teachers in Chicago might ignore the needs of theirs.
The thread is mostly self bumps where the OP is upset that the sunburn school in Seattle is getting more attention than it.
