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Your son can’t get a good education if teachers walk off the job

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In a post linked by Glenn Reynolds, Robert Costa posts this picture:

In the post linking Costa, the Blogfather reports something else:

KIDS? EDUCATION? THE HELL WITH ‘EM: Madison schools will close again on Monday — the 4th school day in a row — to accommodate teachers protesting at the Capitol. They don’t care about your kids. They care about themselves, and about money, and political power.

It’s not Governor Walker closing schools and preventing the children from getting an education.  These folks would rather engage in politics than teach the children.

Perhaps, Wisconsin would be better served if those marching on the state capital found another line of work.

UPDATE:  “If this” were really “‘about the kids’,” Doug Ross writes, “rather than about the greed and arrogance of the public unions, teachers would be in the classroom teaching instead of fraudulently calling in sick, with help of doctors aiding and abetting that fraud.“

Comments

  1. Scott – I taught your son algebra. My son just turned 5. Does *he* deserve a good education?

    And there you have it, folks. The evil that lurks in the heart of left-liberalism. In this case, we have a teacher threatening the welfare of his own son – his own son! – lest the world cave into his demands for cushy pensions and more political power for his union.

    The implied threat is that if Gov. Walker doesn’t cave in and give that selfish, greedy and malevolent teacher striker whatever he wants, then he *won’t* see to it that his own son is properly educated, something that every parent is responsible for ultimately, whether they are a teacher or not.

  5. I was always offended by those snotty “If you can read this, thank a teacher” bumper stickers. It’s a pretty arrogant claim coming from unionized bureaucrats who will then turn around and claim they can’t be held responsible for bad test scores.

  7. Sorry to say this, but The Auntie of All Dogma has entirely eluded me on the gibberish posted in #6. Anyone got a clue?

    Is the Auntie proposing that the Tea Party “Indians” in the Boston of yore were “striking” over “no pay manipulation for people with public service union representation”?

    Help me Rhonda, I are confusiated.

  8. If I were the algebra teacher guy, I would man up and threaten to come take my teaching back out of the head of the governor’s son.

    Yeah, that’s the ticket. And, and, and, I would send the governor a huge bill for all the time I spent having to pretend that teaching is all about the children and the love of education when it is really all about the money. Also, I would call in sick. And, and, and if they make me attend school, I would show them a thing or two ….. I would piddle around. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I would show them.

  9. Let’s see if I get this straight; it’s bad if the Government gets “shut down” because Democrats won’t agree to Republican spending cuts. But it’s good if Government is shut down because unionized public employees refuse to go to work and instead riot at the state capitol.

    Have I properly assessed the current state of play?

  11. Well apparently to Granny Goodness, ‘real tea parties’ require fraud, deceit and the DNC bringing in parademons from Apokolips out of state protestors by Boom Tube busses. Fraud, deceit, and astroturf.

    Liberalism, the Anti-Life Equation.

  13. I heard a great comment by a man on a talk show: he said these protestors don’t care about the kids, the schools, the possible thousands of jobs lost if Walker gives in. What they care about is keeping the power that they have. If 12,000 of them have to lose their jobs, so what, as long as the remaining workers keep their power

  17. I was always offended by those snotty “If you can read this, thank a teacher” bumper stickers

    Well, seeing as primary schooling is compulsory in all 50 states — the only exception being privately and home-schooled children, who do far better than public school students, and the illiteracy rate in America is shockingly high and growing, then the corollary would also be true. “If you can’t read this, BLAME a public school teacher”