MCC
At least 26,000 Michigan students to miss school due to teachers’ right-to-work protest
“We’ve had an excessive number of teachers call in,” Warren district spokesperson Robert Freehan said Monday afternoon. “We’re concerned about the safety and security of the students, so we’re treating it as a snow day.”
Ben Lazarus is a school board member-elect for Warren Consolidated. He believes the district, but not the teachers, made the right call.
“I think that political agendas shouldn’t take precedence over student learning,” said Lazarus. “I think the superintendent made the best decision with the facts available.”
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
Won’t matter. They were not learning anything anyway.
MikeA on December 11, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Or not to work. As it were.
Mitoch55 on December 11, 2012 at 1:18 PM
How many “make blood run in the streets” personal days do grammar school teachers get these days?
forest on December 11, 2012 at 1:19 PM
26,000 kids will have one day less of commie indoctrination. Small victory.
Rixon on December 11, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Two words on whiny teachers: Don’t. Care.
tickleddragon on December 11, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Tearing down tents and punching people in the face is for the children, wingnuts.
Good Lt on December 11, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Come on – unionized teachers don’t teach anyway – they’re just there to collect a check and strike – This is nothing new. Unionized “teaching” is not a real job, it’s just make-work.
Pork-Chop on December 11, 2012 at 1:21 PM
As always, liberals don’t care about anyone else … it’s always about themselves and what they can steal from you.
darwin on December 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Oh how delicious would the schadenfreude be if those teachers came back to work tomorrow only to find pink slips in their mailboxes…
SWalker on December 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM
This should really help with the problem kids have learning with the teachers not doing their job but protesting?
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/only-7-detroit-public-school-8th-graders-proficient-reading
L
letget on December 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Fire them all. It’s not like the kids they “teach” are learning anything from them anyway.
steebo77 on December 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Yup:
Galt2009 on December 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM
This will definitely get public opinion on their side. Parents love having to make last-minute arrangements for child care because the kinds’ teachers don’t feel like teaching.
alwaysfiredup on December 11, 2012 at 1:28 PM
*kids
alwaysfiredup on December 11, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Pick 1% at random and fire them. Warn the rest of the “sick” teachers that they could be next if it happens again.
aunursa on December 11, 2012 at 1:30 PM
I’ve heard it’s a bad economy and that thousands of teachers around the country were let go due to lack of funding.
As far as I’m concerned, this is an opportunity to create jobs for some of those people.
Let them know that anyone that misses work without a pre-approved vacation day, an admission note from a hospital, a police report detailing the crime that detained them or proof that dear old grandma died and they couldn’t make it to work that day will be let go.
Hire people that want to teach more than they want to play politics.
JadeNYU on December 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Truancy?
portlandon on December 11, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Actually, they probably just have a one day shorter summer vacation.
besser tot als rot on December 11, 2012 at 1:49 PM
Heh, the teachers hate the kids.
May all the teachers and Obama go to Hades. He furthers this, as the president and a constitutional ‘professor’.
Schadenfreude on December 11, 2012 at 1:50 PM
I guess teaching is a “No Show” job.
besser tot als rot on December 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Same as happened in Wisconsin. Union are scum and teachers are idiots – literally; the education department is the dumbest department in any university (which is no mean feat, let me tell you). Average GREs for intended education majors are THE LOWEST of any. The education idiots even score lower on the math section of the GRE than the friggin English intended majors! That’s how dumb the education people are. Frankly, these people shouldn’t be trying to teach anything. They’re too stupid to teach.
Mean GRE (based on 2003-2006 data, but these numbers haven’t really changed since I took the GRE back over 20 years ago) -
Intended Education Major: Verbal 449, Quantitative 533, Analytical Writing 4.3
Intended Literature Language Major: Verbal 561, Quantitative 550, Anaytical Writing 4.8
Education grads are worse at math than friggin literature folks! How pathetic is that?
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Make it 10%. Decimation.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Test scores will go up dramatically.
DeathtotheSwiss on December 11, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Who cares? They don’t learn anything worthwhile anyway.
Dack Thrombosis on December 11, 2012 at 2:11 PM