Minneapolis Educators Strike For Higher
Pay, Better Conditions For Students
WCCO-TV (Minneapolis, MN),
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
3/8/2022 12:19:08 PM
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis public school educators are officially on strike as of Tuesday morning. The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Education Support Professionals announced the strike early Monday evening. The union and school district failed to come to an agreement during the 10-day cooling period following a strike authorization vote late last month. (Snip) About 3,500 Minneapolis teachers and education support professionals will participate in the strike. Their demands include a living wage for the support professionals staff, smaller class sizes and a counselor and social worker at every school. They’re also looking for more educators of color and higher
Reply 1 - Posted by:
red1066 3/8/2022 12:23:39 PM (No. 1093788)
Give them 48 hours to go back to work. Anyone not back in the classroom by then, they're fired.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vesicant 3/8/2022 12:24:40 PM (No. 1093790)
Better conditions for students? Funny how that always seems to mean more goodies for the teachers and less actual teaching.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/8/2022 12:26:35 PM (No. 1093796)
No. Issue school vouchers to the parents. Education is already flooded with money, and does not need any more. And then, the parents are having to educate their children at home, and pay for a school system that produces nothing but brainwashed communists.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
downnout 3/8/2022 12:28:11 PM (No. 1093798)
Perhaps the “educators” would be willing to decrease their own salaries to increase salaries for support staff…(s)
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 3/8/2022 12:28:41 PM (No. 1093799)
They’ve had all this time off and don’t want to work. I bet there will be something else if this is resolved.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
subal 3/8/2022 12:28:51 PM (No. 1093800)
Why would any one want to live in that city?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 3/8/2022 12:47:26 PM (No. 1093830)
Note that the article only interviews one parent - a pro-teacher parent. Journalism at its finest.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/8/2022 12:49:25 PM (No. 1093834)
They need what Reagan did to PATCO.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 3/8/2022 12:58:52 PM (No. 1093854)
Vouchers for every parent. Let them choose their own schools. These government schools will be empty in a month.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/8/2022 1:01:54 PM (No. 1093859)
Greedy little itches, aren't they. But, it's for the chirren!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/8/2022 1:17:54 PM (No. 1093887)
Okay. Get serious. I'm calling b.s. on the ''Better Conditions For Students'' fiction. This is after all Hennepin County/Minneapolis MN.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
SALady 3/8/2022 1:18:27 PM (No. 1093889)
Do the people here saying the government should issue vouchers to parents actually pay any attention to the government we have right now?!?!?!?
Does anyone actually believe that there won't be tons of strings attached to those vouchers? Do you not believe that any school taking those vouchers will be required to teach government approved sex education (including transgenderism, abortion is wonderful, etc) staring in pre-K, as well as Critical Race Theory and every other lie-beral wet dream to be forced on private Christian schools and others? Do you not believe the government will require any school taking those vouchers to have at least 50% homosexual and transgender and other freak-show teachers?
No, the government needs to get out of the education racket all together. Let the parents use what they are currently paying in school taxes (which, yes, they are doing even if they are renting as part of their rent each month) to choose how to educate their own children. It is the only chance we have to save the current and future generations of children from massive lie-beral indoctrination!!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/8/2022 1:23:56 PM (No. 1093896)
Most schools are funded by local property taxes.
If you have "good schools" you likely have high property taxes.
Love how they want a living wage for the support "professionals" staff - wonder why it's only now a concern?
And, how many teachers have what's considered a professional degree (none unless they are doctors, lawyers, CPA's). After all, a person with a professional degree is held to a higher level of scrutiny in the eyes of the law.
What is always lost is the very generous benefits and pension that is also part of most state, county and city employment.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Debrawr 3/8/2022 1:32:34 PM (No. 1093907)
I have a better idea: teacher wages based on core subject competency tests.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/8/2022 1:51:32 PM (No. 1093929)
we live in a third ring western suburb of Mogadapolis..
very high property taxes for the skoolz..
the snowflake gurlz (usually about 14-15 years old)
were the FIRST to be hanging signs on the overpasses
"BLM", "Justice for George", "De-Fund the Police"
let me have your children for 20 years....
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Fire them immediately.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TJ54 3/8/2022 2:53:44 PM (No. 1093987)
Sounds like the union goods are asking to get it good and hard
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 3/8/2022 3:04:49 PM (No. 1094001)
Fire them now! All of them! No school is better than the junk our kids are being taught! Cut pay to 65,000 dollars per year, end the unions and go back next year! Give each parent $50,000 to educate ea kid for this year!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 3/8/2022 3:10:37 PM (No. 1094008)
things must be getting bad in Mogadishu, Minnesota
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
jinx 3/8/2022 3:12:44 PM (No. 1094009)
How in the world did our ancestors learn to read and write and do math in a one room school house with no bathrooms and probably no heat!!!!! They walked to school in the heat and rain or snow. Not only that, but they are the ones who built this great Republic. Get rid of the Dept. of education. It has done more damage to our schools than one could have ever imagined.!!!!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 3/8/2022 4:07:51 PM (No. 1094047)
Back in 1976, I was the Grades 1-4 teacher in a rural, Lutheran, 2-room schoolhouse. My salary was $5000 for a 10-month contract. The other teacher in the school had Grades 5-8 and was the principal. After teaching those grades for four years, I moved to Grades 5-8 and became principal. In my 12 years at that school, our students consistently outscored the public school kids when they reentered the public school system in 9th Grade. We were told that our 8th Grade graduates averaged about 1/2 to 1 year ahead of their public school classmates. Our school never had trouble getting teachers, even though we were paid considerably much lower than the local public schools. Why? Because our teachers looked upon their assignment as a Calling, a Mission, to do their best in guiding the children to do their best. Public teachers would respond that our school had the privilege of choosing the elite, whereas they had to educate everyone. Not so. We were tuition-free and accepted anyone and everyone.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 3/8/2022 6:41:37 PM (No. 1094179)
Students are not their concern fire them all immediately. Time to break this union.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
garyhope 3/8/2022 7:56:06 PM (No. 1094249)
"Educators"?
I don't think so.......Brain-washers, propagandists, communists, socialists, America haters, traitors. Let them starve.
Home school your kids so you know what they're learning.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/8/2022 8:30:44 PM (No. 1094273)
They did that some years ago in Atlanta, #14. The result. The teachers got together after hours, had pizza parties and changed the test results en masse so they could reap thousands in performance bonuses. 95% black teachers, of course. Fortunately, they got caught mainly because they were too stupid to sufficiently cover their tracks. This is who are teaching our kids in public schools.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 3/9/2022 6:03:57 AM (No. 1094475)
Fire them all and see if anyone notices that they are gone.
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Average pay is already $71,000/year. Seems like a bad time to be making greedy demands.