“None of this is for the kids, and now it’s not even about wages but things totally unrelated to teaching.”
And how do you know that none of these extra things totally unrelated to teaching are not going to be beneficial for the kids? How, exactly, do you figure out what is beneficial for kids?
All I know for sure is, as a kid I hated school, I was convinced that the curriculum was designed by crazy people, and I haven’t changed my mind on that. So my take is, since kids are always going to be used as pawns by adults for their silly games, can we at least limit the adults that screw with kids to be just the ones that spend the most time with them, namely teachers and parents/guardians? At least that way, if their silly ideas turn out to be a disaster, there are good chances they will know about it. Otherwise, you are just encouraging something that looks a lot like pure evil: overwhelming power over future generations with close to zero accountability. And professions that are heavily involved with kids, such as those making books for kids, should be made to deal with consequences if their ideas turn out to be a disaster.
RonJ
11 months ago
“Oakland Teachers Strike in 5th Day Over Climate Justice, Homeless Housing, Reparations”
Which have nothing to do with teaching the parent’s children what they need to be productive adults in the economy.
Red (socialism) for (anti) Ed.
wmjack50
11 months ago
WELFARE has created a group of entitled citizens who should never have been born. They were born as a business to get a check from the government. The checks stops at 18. They grow up spreading chaos for the rest of us,—But Democrats like chaos
prumbly
11 months ago
Can you IMAGINE what such teachers are indoctrinating the kids with in class? Jeez! All the trans/reparations/anti-white/socialist/climate shjt they must be peddling. The next generation is going to be totally messed up.
PapaDave
11 months ago
Oh boohoohoo. Complain, complain, complain.
I guess, if anyone here actually wanted to make a difference, they could move to Oakland, run for the school board and work hard to straighten things out. Any volunteers?
Or they could complain endlessly, and have no effect whatsoever on the situation. (Isn’t that the definition of insanity?). Yeah. That’s the ticket. Lets all sit around the campfire, sing kumbaya, and complain, complain, complain.
That must be just the Ontario Teachers Pension plan, the most unethical of them all.
Captain Ahab
11 months ago
Again, the problem is not unions. It is institutionalized affirmative action and out-of-control bureaucracy pushed by the Democrap party.
ThinkEconomically
11 months ago
Marxist folks doing Marxist types of things. Who cares. Oakland and SF are basically war zones. Plain and simple, they are idiots.
vanderlyn
11 months ago
it’s idiocracy. i’d suggest the unions consult the farm lobby. those good ole boys know how to get paid to not grow anything. they also started up the EBT food stamp programs. i say the idiots in oakland are way behind the farmers in the free sh*t army parade of idiocracy. let’s not even talk about the bankers and military industrial complex “union” that owns the empire. not excusing the idiocracy, but it’s a rounding error. i lived in oakland for a couple of years. lovely place really. spectacular weather and quite nice. like most places it’s hit or miss.
Zardoz
11 months ago
They aren’t getting any of that… why not swing for the fences? Let’s have a mars colony and cure for male pattern baldness! Then we can all dwell happily forevermore in cloud Kookoo-land!
“With Bargaining for the Common Good, union members partner with the
community around a long-term vision for the structural changes they want
to see in their communities. Together, they use collective bargaining
and advocacy as a critical moment in a broader campaign to win that
change.”
BB43
11 months ago
Pure insanity. Especially on the part of Oakland residents who tolerate it.
Mike 2112
11 months ago
The Oakland Raiders sold out every game and had the most rabid fans in the NFL and they left for Vegas.
They saw the writing on the wall. Oakland is a failed city and post collapse will be even more of a lawless wasteland.
Don’t think so. The Baltimore stadiums are located in the southwest part of the city just off major highways from DC. They get a lot of support from the DC suburbs. The DC suburbs are the wealthiest part of the nation.
Bam_Man
11 months ago
They are all going to become “Reparations Millionaires” so there is no need for them to get an education.
KidHorn
11 months ago
Schools stopped focusing on education a while ago. My daughter marched in a pride parade a few weeks ago at the bequest of one of her teachers. Teacher frequently asks kids to participate in his woke ideas outside of school. My daughter doesn’t have to participate, but if she doesn’t participate in X number of events over the year, her grades will suffer.
Reminds me of those who didn’t have to take the vaccine, but if they didn’t they would be fired.
The funny thing is it’s JROTC. My daughter didn’t even want to take the class. They kicked her out of her class and the only thing available was JROTC. I read a lot of schools are doing this because they don’t have to pay the instructor. Schools are forcing kids into JROTC where they can march in pride parades wearing their army fatigues.
This combines pretty much everything the left claims the right falsely accuses them of.
PreCambrian
11 months ago
I wouldn’t abolish public employee unions but just because they exist doesn’t mean that their demands have to be fulfilled. The school board could accede to the teacher’s demands and reduce the teacher’s salaries to adjust for the cost of the demands.
There-in lies the rub. Unions fund pro-union school boards. So in the end, it union on both sides of the bargaining table. It is a win-win if you’re in the union … but a major loss if you’re a taxpayer or a child in the public school system.
Scotttjacob
11 months ago
I have long felt that the teachers unions are not unionized against their management or school boards, they are unionized against the parents and taxpayers. Where else do we have a union against the customers???
California is hitting the accelerator on the train heading towards the brick wall. Corey Booker is already leading a team for national reparations. If Cali does there’s first (it is 6 years of the entire budget in SF IF the lowest cost estimates are true and 3 years of the state budget (State reparations were absurd, but less absurd) to pay what they had planned) … the US taxpayer will pick up the tab.
There’s no intention of ever having to pay. It’s the same with student loan forgiveness. The democrats are just trying to win votes. They know neither of these payouts will ever happen. They’re both against the law. Voters will vote for them thinking they have a better chance of a big payout.
denker
11 months ago
Hey Mish it’s only Oakland and maybe Portland, Seattle, Chicago, NYC etc. After all Randi Weingarten asserts they strive to keep the schools open even at the risk of their own lives. Public unions are on the kid’s side and the public. Their own interests come afterwards. Casting aspersions on these selfless dedicated workers and their unions is deplorable. Where i did here that before?
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community around a long-term vision for the structural changes they want
to see in their communities. Together, they use collective bargaining
and advocacy as a critical moment in a broader campaign to win that
change.”