I think it's their way to 'bargain'..
You should read some of the great comments on HuffPo. Especially mine:
“I'm sure in a couple of weeks the school board's going to come to the teachers and say, "Hey. Remember that pink slip you got a while back? About that...Take a 40% cut in pay and benefits or you're gone!"
Here's what I don't understand. The average pay of a teacher is 50k per year. People like wrongo (yes I'm going there!) sit on their asses in their sugar-mommy provided job playing on not one, but two stupid fucking webboards all day long for more than that and make 50k a year...
Teachers have to babysit kids because they're parents don't, teachers have to buy school supplies because the kid's parents and the school boards won't, teachers have to work until midnight grading papers - or God forbid, figuring out how to actually teach kids
in spite of the fucking FCAT's out there, teachers have to try to teach parents how to be parents for Christ's sake, teachers have to put up with bureaucratic school board members, school administrators and fucking politicians who've never spent a single fucking minute in front of a classroom and have no fucking idea what it's like...oy, I've gone off track...
I'm willing to bet there's far more teachers out there making far less than that magical 50k figure and far less out there making a hell of a lot more than it.
Vested? You've got to be kidding, me, right? Unions? Fuck yeah! If we didn't have unions protecting these teachers, they'd be ass-raped by every fucking teabagging politician out there.
Did you know that four of the five states in the country with the worst schools don't allow unions? (Wisconsin, for now, does; and is ranked second in the nation).
