More proof that “the system” is absolutely, positively rigged against kids. This story in the L.A. Times is amazing. So teachers are having a protest over budget cuts. Great, they are like every other teacher group in the country in that regard. Those protests are important.
But they are going to do it on student time? And they are going to do it by… sleeping in an extra hour? And leave the kids supervised by aides, even in schools like Locke High School where everybody knows all hell is likely to break loose?
Doing the protest when kids are in school is apparently more convenient for teachers, and heck, an extra hour of sleep aint to shabby either. (Saul Alinsky is rolling over in his grave right now.)
The LA Unified School District went to the Public Employee Relations Board to try to force the teachers to actually teach for the first hour of the day but PERB’s responsibility is to make life easier for big people, not students.
Any teacher who actually goes to work on time is going to be threatened and called a scab by thugs like UTLA’s A.J. Duffy. I shit you not. Seriously. I’m not making this up. From the news story:
Duffy said he expected as many as 40,000 teachers to participate. “Anyone who doesn’t will be crossing a picket line,” he said.
Wow. Good for you A.J. A sleep-in for the kids. Love it.
I can hear the chants now:
What do we want? (A snooze button!)
When do we want it? (Now!)