It’s For “The Children!” February 5 2010
I had some teachers who protested their contracts once. But they didn’t protest during school hours. They did it in the morning before school started, and when the bell rang, they were in their rooms doing their jobs.
Not so in the case of the Penn Hills School District:
Talks are due to resume between the school board and the teacher’s union in the Penn Hills school district on Friday night.
But students remain out of class for a second day, after more than 400 teachers headed out to the picket lines Thursday morning.
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The school district released a written statement saying that schools will be closed Thursday and Friday, and parents will be notified of any future closures once administrators know how long the strike will continue.
I’m glad they’re looking out for “the children” that teachers claim to care so much about. One of them is holding a sign which reads, “If you can read this thank a teacher not an attorney.” I would tell that person that it wasn’t a teacher who taught me how to read – it was my mother. And she never went on strike, either.
The Trib quotes a parent who supports the strike despite the fact that it is causing him a lot of trouble:
James Craig knows it will be tough arranging child care while Penn Hills teachers walk the picket lines.
But the father of six — five of whom are school-age — believes the personal difficulties a strike places on his family are less important than the need for the district’s 415 teachers to exercise their right to fight for a fair labor contract.
“We’re two working parents who will have to ask relatives to help watch our children, or take vacation days to stay home with them,” said Craig, 40, a 1988 Penn Hills graduate. “But I completely support the teachers in this strike. They have a very difficult and stressful job.”
Right, as if they are the only ones with difficult and stressful jobs. I know a lot of people who have difficult and stressful jobs who would be fired immediately if they decided to just stop working. I have always found it ridiculous that we are willing to give teachers, the little Mussolinis in the classroom, more leeway than people in other fields of employment.
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