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Unions Tell Taxpayers: “We have no confidence in you.”

topknot Wrote: Sep 23, 2012 7:05 PM

That is a lot of the problem is parents that do not take time with their children or their education the ones that do not sit down and listen to their child read or help with home work or see that it is done it is much easier to park them in front of a T.V and just stay out of their way. Then there is also the parent that did not learn while they were in school so they are unable to help the child with home work.

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Unions Tell Taxpayers: “We have no confidence in you.”

All over the country, union leaders are demanding that communities cough up extra cash to help “make teachers whole.” And unions around the country are testing the waters with teachers by asking teachers in budget stricken districts to vote “no confidence” in the community to send a message to taxpayers to cough up cash or else.

The “or else?”

Strike.

Never mind making communities whole; those communities can never be whole under Obama.

As cash-strapped municipalities deal with declining tax revenues and too-rosy assumptions made by administrators and union officials, teachers unions are stamping their feet, holding their breath and...