North Carolina: We Are Next!

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1. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   May 2, 2018 at 8:00 am

   This is how it starts, with protests and then when that doesn’t work, there is Revolution.

   “Though preceded by years of unrest and periodic violence, the Revolutionary War began in earnest on April 19, 1775 with the battles of Lexington and Concord. The conflict lasted a total of seven years, with the major American victory at Yorktown, VA in 1781 marking the end of hostilities.”

   But today, the names have changed. ALEC represents the British Empire and the Koch brothers are King George. If the people can’t stop ALEC and the Kochtopus, then it will eventually turn into a violent revolution.

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2. Ms.Cartwheel....Librarian says:

   May 2, 2018 at 8:14 am

   Hopefully this event will also address the hiring of new teachers coming into the profession. I am uncertain if a reduction of benefits for incoming teachers has been finalized by the legislature. The proposed benefit reductions will include the loss a pension as we have now and no health insurance at retirement.

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3. Chiara says:

   May 2, 2018 at 8:16 am

   Oh, good for them. North Carolina really attacked their own public schools. Lawmakers decided that the people in that state are paying them to attack the schools 95% of the public use. It’s a bizarre ideology.

   It’s funny to watch the reaction from national ed reformers. They had no earthly idea strikes were even a possibility, which means they have no earthly idea what is actually happening in public schools in these states. They’re supposedly “working on the ground” in Arizona yet they didn’t know the entire state teaching force was fed up enough to walk off the job?

   They completely missed the biggest public school issue of the year- millions and millions of public school students affected- until it was big enough that they could no longer ignore them. The unrest in public schools will affect MANY more students than the national voucher campaign they’re all currently plugging, but they cared so little about public schools they didn’t see it until teachers brought it right to their offices.

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4. Chiara says:

   May 2, 2018 at 8:26 am

   I’m grateful to public school teachers for doing this. Politicians had no intention of restoring funding to public schools. Our schools were a dead-least priority after charters and vouchers and all the rest of the ed reform agenda.

   The one and only reason public schools will get any attention from our state lawmakers is because teachers forced them to address it. No one else could be bothered. They are too busy “reinventing schools” with grand plans of privatization and some imaginary shangri la of “choice” to put a lick of work into the public schools that exist.

   How long did ed reformers think they could deliberately neglect the schools that serve 95% of the public without some kind of backlash? Forever? People just wouldn’t notice their public schools had been gutted and then abandoned by the people they pay to run them?

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5. letthemlearn says:

   May 2, 2018 at 8:37 am

   Solidarity.

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   • Laura H. Chapman says:

     May 2, 2018 at 12:28 pm

     Yes.

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   • ciedie aech says:

     May 2, 2018 at 1:55 pm

     Many teachers have had mounting frustrations either unexpressed or unheard: finding solidarity in action is the therapy many have been longing for.

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6. Cindy Claymore Watter says:

   May 2, 2018 at 2:43 pm

   Organized labor in this country is nearly dead; thanks to the public school teachers for breathing life into it.

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7. Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:

   May 2, 2018 at 6:01 pm

   Go NC public school teachers.

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8. kelcos says:

   May 2, 2018 at 7:33 pm

   BREAKING NEWS:

   https://www.wral.com/board-to-decide-if-durham-schools-will-close-when-nearly-1-000-teachers-rally-for-better-pay/17524553/

   Our Durham Public Schools’ school board just decided! 1,000+ will be out on May 16th so the school district will close schools!! Optional teacher workday. 😄😄😄

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