Almost all of Detroit’s public schools were closed last
Monday resulting in over 45,000 students missing classes after roughly half the
district’s teachers called in “sick” to protest the possibility that some of
them won’t get paid over the summer if
the district runs out of cash. This, just the latest in a series of “sick-outs,” caused 94 of 97 schools to close as 1,562
teachers dutifully, robotically obeyed their union’s plea for them to stay
home, despite the fact that teacher strikes are illegal under Michigan law.
This is
an amazing display of chutzpah and hypocrisy given teachers near-constant
diatribes for “volunteerism” and against money-worship, big business, the
for-profit motive, false advertising, capitalism, Wall-Street, “greed,” the
rich, the one-percent, etc., etc., and their similarly constant, aggressive and
narcissistic bloviating about how important they are to the development of
their charges knowledge, character, happiness and ability to get along with
everyone else on earth.
When it
comes down to the potential loss of cash from their own pockets, however, they promptly exclaim, “screw the
little retards, we’re outta here until you show us the f@^!&ing money!”
Based
on how Detroit public-school students fare on competency tests, these teachers
are lucky they get paid at all.
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