If teachers have a contract that says they are legally not allowed to strike, if they go on strike should they be fired?

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A local town is dealing with an illegal teachers strike. They always wait until a week after the kids go back to school because parents have already cancelled their daycare and have to miss work and stay home with their kids. They will call the school committee and tell them to give them what they want and finish this. It happened in my town years ago when my kids were in school. I called the chairman of the school committee and told him that he needs to hang tough and not cave in to their demands. I told him that my wife and I would work as substitute teachers. He really was appreciative of my support but they caved anyway,. I ran into him at the dump and went over and introduced myself. He apologized but told me that so many people called not only him but the other members and they decided that it needed to be settled.

I think that they should be told that whoever is not in the classroom on Monday, don;t bother coming back. They could easily fill all these positions in a week.

lightbulb27 · Accepted Answer

not sure.

seems to me a violation of their right if they aren't allowed to do something like say "I anin't gonna work for what we agreed to work for". but clearly, this is abuse to the community by mass of people holding hostage. It's also... terrorism to parents. Thus, draw them all up on terror charges and hostage taking.

I agree with you, if they decide not to work, then run school bare minimum... it's just a day care with some books in it. fire everyone that doesn't show, and re-hire. that's what reagan did with air traffic controllers.

that said, inflation is so bad, pretty soon, we will have to pay the govt for the privilage of working and be lucky if have rice and beans. I went to buy a burger the other day and the lady said..."do you want meat on your bun, that's extra!".. you want that in a box? Yea, add $5 landfill fee, plus tax, plus convenience fee, me fee, 20% tip on top of that, farmers college fund fee, environmental fee, disposal fee, talk to me fee, minimum wage govt fee, fee just to have a fee. By the time I was done, I just gave her the keys to my car.".

just kidding.. that seems what it's going to. . everyone fighting to survive because we are spending ourselves into oblivion as the "frogs get boiled"... it's fun while it all lasts... but realize, what you have own't buy squat in 15 years...

HighValue · Accepted Answer

When schools get more funding it often goes to admin and wasteful unnecessary technology upgrades. They also use hundreds of thousands (millions in some districts) to change their whole reading or math program to a new one, throwing out all the older material that was already paid for and still useful. Then if the new programs are worse, they insist on using them because the admin doesn't want to admit that they wasted so much tax payer money of something useless.

On top of that, MOST supplies in the classroom come out of a teacher's pocket. The educational items posted on the walls, reading and writing materials, craft materials, sports equipment, 504 plan supplies, etc. Sometimes parents buy a couple books (for me, out of the whole class of parents, 4 books were provided for me). Then the teacher is expected to purchase the other 100+ books out of their own pocket. Parents provide one set of dry erase markers for their kid, which gets used up within a month or two, then expect the teacher to buy them for the whole class (20 to 32 students) the rest of the year.

There needs to be a budget for each teacher to purchase supplies throughout the year, but that hasn't happened in any school I have seen in real life.

Miah04 · Accepted Answer

y'all have 0 appreciation for the hard work we do. We are underpaid, underfunded.

We barely make enough to survive and are usually forced to buy things for our students that the schools do not provide but should.

We also buy supplies for students that their parents can't afford.

We teach your children even if they are good, or bad kids so you can go to work not having to worry about educating your children.

Half the parents couldn't careless what we teach their kids, as long as they don't have to do it.

And when we ask for schools to just give us enough to survive, or pay for things we need.

The school says no, while wasting money repaving parking lots that don't need it, so they keep the budget, that money could go towards supplies or salary increases.

The only way they listen is strikes. The moment we go on strike and we no longer raise your kids for you, y'all get mad at us.

Not the cheap schools who screw over their teachers.

Daniela1982 · Accepted Answer

Seems to me that whenever a bond measure is passed to give money to the schools, such for new books to take the place of 15-year-old schoolbooks, or to fund school sports for the kids, what is the first thing teachers do? They ask for a raise. So then the kids don't get what they need. As it is the parents have to provide a lot of stuff for their kids, like school supplies, and pay for their child to play sports. Used to be teachers cared about the kids, but lately they only care about themselves. Where my sister lives the kids are out of school almost as much as they are in because the teachers are always having teacher days for something or another. Maybe for learning new languages so they can teach illegal immigrant kids in their own language.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I hate it when people who have positions with some power use it as leverage to extort their price.

normalice · Answer

Obviously, but of course I wouldn't believe the people who don't want to pay them more when it comes to what they publicly say is in their contract. Making the dumb public mad at strikers is the number one way to to break a strike without paying a fair wage.

Fireguy17 · Answer

the schools are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
If they fired them, they would not have any replacements for them. There just aren't enough teachers around, and who would want to get a job that might be short lived and maybe miss out on a better one that you would have for a quite a while.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

I really don’t follow these politics. I am aware that teachers are legally not allow to strike. This was before my time…

however.. I do think teachers (anyone) still should strike if they want things to change.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

Yep. Signed a contract. May be a shite contract, but that was what was agreed upon.

NathanDavis · Answer

sure... screw teachers even more... what's the worst that could happen...

TheGuyWhoKnowsStuff · Answer

You can fire them but then who will teach the kids and who would want to become a teacher?

OddBeMe · Answer

Ehh…supply demand. If you need teachers and pay them shit…sorry they have power.

And that used to be an American value, the right to strike. But Reagan put fire to that idea. Also sold drugs to finance contras.

Anonymous · Answer

I think all strikes should have the leaders dragged out and shot in front of the picket line because they won't do it again

Not a little 9mm double tap, 12 bore so the strikes get showered in the red mist

msc545 · Answer

You cannot train teachers in a week. Be glad you have teachers at all given they way they are treated and barely paid.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

No public employees should be allowed to strike. Ever. If you're a public servant, do your job.

Zestyassmf1997 · Answer

I’m not sure such a contract would be legal.

Liketotry · Answer

Not in a right to work state

JacobJordan · Answer

Of course

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