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Younger kids need to go back. Don't onow what we are going to do on the days we have to both be at work. The is really hurting the middle class and probably destroying the poor.
They keep up this bull shit, they will lose their jobs and they won't come back. There will be a defund school movement if they keep this up. Teachers are shooting themselves in the foot.
I hope the schools are still open where I'm moving next month so far that's the plan there. CA is asshole.
As a public employee myself--a public school teacher--I have the right to say that despite what many of my colleagues believe, we as public employees should not have the right to unionize. I also believe that public teachers should by law be prohibited from striking (actually, no public employee should be allowed to strike). No other than Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself said he didn't believe government employees should be permitted to unionize. He was right.
Some might say I'm hurting myself by daring to speak out against my own interests. Hogwash. I simply am smart enough and unselfish enough to realize that I hold a unique position as a taxpayer-paid employee. I am presently a member of a teacher's union and while in the business world was a member of several unions, from the CWA and IBEW to the Teamsters to the SEIU. (Only the Teamsters did I like or respect, FWIW.)
I'm sorry, fellow teachers, but our jobs are vastly different from private sector jobs. We are paid by the taxpayers, every day citizens. As such, we owe them a duty to perform our jobs, which aren't the same as private sector jobs. When we sluff off on the job, when we strike, we cause greater harm to the public than does a striking UPS plant or a striking Caterpillar plant or a striking UAW plant.
Every person in NYC who protested budget cuts--as if no one in the private sector is experiencing budget cuts, those NYC employee bastards--should be fired. Immediately. Fire every damn one of them and forever forbid them from holding a public sector job again.
Public employees should not be allowed to unionize at all.
said my daughter will be with older kids and that's not good.
She asked where I'm moving to and said she understands why. She told me told me leadership at the top hates the
My wife teaches at a local community college. They are already discussing online learning in the spring.
RC2006 saysShe asked where I'm moving to and said she understands why. She told me told me leadership at the top hates the
RC2006, as much or as little detail that you are comfortable sharing,
what school district (or community or county or region or whatever) moving from, and where to?
to Suburbs of Boise ID.
RC2006 saysto Suburbs of Boise ID.
RC2006, thank you for sharing.
I am not trying to be snarkey. I am interested in where in my state people are leaving from, where they relocate to, and why they chose the destination.
Would you mind sharing, why you chose Boise?
Meanwhile, the same AFT is claiming it's murder to make them teach in classrooms because of close proximity.
CA is trapped in a negative feedback loop at this point with no way out. Let see what happens when commercial side of prop13 get eradicated and even more businesses bail. They will kill residential side if prop13. Then raise taxes on everything across the board bleeding every last working taxpayer till nobody is left.
Sad I think they're so fucked and will slip into 2nd world status with the exception of a few enclaves.
Oh and fuck teaches union. Only reason teachers are not fleeing in droves from CA is because they are locked into a pention, or at least that's what every teacher tells me.
teachers are not fleeing in droves from CA is because they are locked into a pention
HeadSet saysI suppose they could pass a law In California that all California state and local government paid pensions will be taxed by California, regardless of where the pensioner resides
Close. They did just that with all retirees fleeing Cali but Congress passed a law based on interstate commerce that banned it.
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Now the teachers unions have managed to also fuck over working parents. People with jobs are expected to quit them to stay home with the kids and homeschool them. Regardless of their budgets of course. The only thing that matters to the teachers is that they get to stay home and still get paid.
Now the LA Unified School District has authorized free daycare for teachers who are parents, so they have someplace other than home (which is where they will be) to send their rug rats so they won’t have to care for them while “teaching online” everyone else’s kids who don’t get free day care.
In my neighborhood there are several gyms which have opened as daycare/schools able to provide daycare for school aged kids with staff who can help the kids with their online lessons. This costs $155-200/week and goes until 3PM same as a regular school day. Working parents who can’t be home with their kids to help them are expected to shell out $650-800/month per kid to “educate” their kids while public schools we all pay for are shuttered because teachers are scared of Covid. But NOT too scared to send their own kids to day cares as long as the school district pays for that!
Fuck teachers unions. Seriously.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/los-angeles-school-district-teachers-000213726.html
It’s in the article, buried:
“Teachers also will be provided with child care.”