This is the best news I’ve heard all day. With all the nonsense going on in Washington these days sometimes you need a little good news and here it is.
From Business Insider:
A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system.
Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes longer per day, each lunch with students once in a while, and help with tutoring. The teachers’ union has refused to accept these apparently onerous demands.The teachers at the high school make $70,000-$78,000, as compared to a median income in the town of $22,000. This exemplifies a nationwide trend in which public sector workers make far more than their private-sector counterparts (with better benefits).
The school superintendent has responded to the union’s stubbornness by firing every teacher and administrator at the school.
I applaud this superintendent. This is exactly what needs to happen with these public sector unions. The administrators need to break their backs. Its clear from the details of this story that these so-called teachers have no interest in actually doing what the taxpayers pay them to do: teach the students. So they were shown the door. Bravo!
I hope this is the beginning of a trend. The American people need to stand by the folks brave enough to take on the unions.
It’s time to go to the mattresses!
cross posted to The Ritz Report
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They are plenty of out of work teachers
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, February 22nd at 8:08PM EST (link)who will line up for those jobs – AND NOT JOIN THE UNION…..
My wife is a substitute teacher and has looked for a full time teaching
position for three years.
These UNION fried taters need to quit acting like their are Gods gifts that are here for us to serve them……Them days are OVER….
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
I'm sorry as a retired teacher, but the handwriting is on the wall
renny (Diary) Monday, February 22nd at 8:49PM EST (link)The nation cannot afford the public sector employees, neither their always increasing pay and benefits nor their endless pensions and medical coverage.
My pension and the PERS (other public employees) in NJ are wrecking the state, and NY and CA are in worse shape than NJ, where our budget is ONLY $2.2 billion out of whack and not $10-20-30 billion, causing CA to start issuing IOUs.
The once-great industrial unions helped make blue-collar workers members of the US middle class in the 40s and 50s, but they went on in the 60s and 70s to wreck textiles, fashion, printing and publishing (NYC had 16 papers with two editions in 1956), and steel, and have of late made much of the auto industry wards of the fed. gov’t. The public employee unions, some of which were illegal for years, are a major reason for budget strains and deficits in every locality across the nation. Eventually, there is no MORE.