Note the teachers always say they are doing it for the kids! I note only folks who work hard at believing that lie, believe that bumper sticker lie.

The union thuggery has been legalized by the corrupt judicial system. 

Twana

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Michigan Capitol Confidential

School Districts Closed Because Of Excessive Teacher Absences Over Right-to-Work

Students suffer because 'several hundred' teachers call in sick to attend right-to-work protest in Lansing

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At least 26,000 children will miss school today because their teachers called in sick or took a vacation day to protest proposed right-to-work legislation, which is expected to pass today.

Warren Consolidated Schools, Taylor School District and Fitzgerald Public Schools are confirmed to be closed. It is also suggested that schools in Detroit and St. Johns may be missing a significant number of teachers.

"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."

The Warren district is the 9th-largest school district in Michigan. More than 15,000 students attend Warren Consolidated Schools. Parents will now have to scramble to find alternative care for their children because of the excessive teacher absences.

Warren Consolidated Schools is the second school district to announce closing in anticipation of a large protest in Lansing against proposed right-to-work legislation. Taylor School District Superintendent Diane Allen told WDIV that the district would be closed because so many teachers were taking sick or vacation days to attend rallies in Lansing.

Detroit Federation of Teachers president Keith Johnson anticipates "a huge crowd" in Lansing for the protest. When asked by the Free Press if any Detroit Public Schools would be closed, he said, "Hopefully."

Some roads near the Capitol building will also be closed on Tuesday, due to anticipated protests and rallies.

At least one other district could be affected by the "sick out." A parent in St. Johns Public Schools north of Lansing with children in the district said they were warned by their teachers that "most of them would not be at school [on Tuesday] because they were attending the protest and if enough substitutes were not found, they would close school."

Fitzgerald Public Schools in Warren was is also closed because of staff absences. FPS Superintendent Barbara VanSweden announced on the school website, "FPS is closed on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 due to the number of staff that are absent.  The district will be closed just like a snow day.  My first priority is student safety and without an adequate number of staff, we cannot hold school."

Freehan estimated that "several hundred" teachers called in sick or said that they would take vacation. The calls began early Monday morning, he said, and continued throughout the day. The district employs about 800 teachers, he said.

"We felt the best approach was to cancel school completely as well as extracurricular activities," he said. "You can't have students in school with just two staff members there."

Lazarus believes right-to-work and other proposed educational reform bills need to be discussed, but that it would be beneficial for legislators to gather more input and information. And a "sick out" is the wrong way to go.

"I do understand that they have a political position," Lazarus added. "[But] the first priority of a teacher should be student learning and I don't think this adds to that."

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See also:

Facts On Right to Work vs. Forced Unionization States

The West Bloomfield Teacher 'Sick Out'

'They Are A Bureaucratic Machine That Got Out of Control'

How the Chicago Teacher Union Strike Affects Michigan

 

 

 

 

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  • TAXPAYERS have NO SAY! WORKERS HAVE NO SAY! Unions are the FREE RIDERS!

  • "The union thuggery has been legalized by the corrupt judicial system."  Accurately and correctly stated - both must go!

  • Obama encourages the Unions bacause he wants to keep the status quo....He wants China to keep the jobs...He wants the chaos of riots and bloodshed...

     

    I want the right to work and freedoms I've always enjoyed. These 'useful union idiots' are gonna go too far and incite martial law...Let obama show his cards now!

     

    Bring it!

  • Lord help us JESUS! How would our parents and grandparents have reacted like this when we were in school?

    Something has got to change. I thought school was for children to learn reading, writing and arithmatic.

  • Now that we have started to take on the unions, Please, lets don't stop. The government will be on the side of the unions, but don't lose heart. Please keep going.

  • Stereotypical and predictable.

  • Every teacher who is involved in this needs to be fired!  This has nothing to do with the children, it has to do with the union heads who know that if they continue loosing members (and they will)  it will short change their salaries. They are nothing more than thugs who want to line their own pockets. Anyone who believes that Right to Work is wrong should be sent away for a long rest.  Liberalism is a disease!

  • UNIONS SUCK! ALL UNIONS!

    Unions are smaller pockets of Socialism that are feeding up to the larger Progressive (Marxist) party!   (Also called Marxist Sleeper cells!)

  • I am in Michigan and was at the Capitol that day.  A few of my friends got there early enough to get into the gallery.  I was in the American for Prosperity tent with a couple of other friends.  We went out in the crowd some, but came back to the tent for safety.  Until this started, the worse that happened was the union wrecked our banner and tried to take some signs.  One of my friends was spit on and another called names, but nothing serious.  Then, some of the union thugs went crazy... storming the tent and upturning the coffee and snack and hotdog tables.  We escaped out of the back of the tent, but some could not get out - we had handicapped people in there.  We were talking to Steven Crowder and his camera man as we got out.  We had to go through the sea of union people (shown here) and got to safety.  One of our guys stayed to try to get people out of the fallen tent, even as the union people were stomping on the tent.  There was propane in there and we all could have been killed.  Luckily no one was badly hurt.

    AFP had furnished us with this large, heated tent with lighting and food and security guards.  Some of the unions hate AFP because they are financed by the Koch Brothers.  I say 'some of the unions' because some union people were appalled by this; helped to get people out of the tent; and even donated money to the hotdog vendor.  I am so proud of our Republican representatives, senators and governor for passing this bill in spite of threats to them too. 

    • We are many...those of us that are extremely happy about this victory against the union hogs/thugs...Thanks for sharing your story here...

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