Mercedes Schneider reports that teachers at three charter schools in Chicago are on strike.
How terrifying for the Waltons, the Koch brothers, and Betsy DeVos!
These are not the first charters to go on strike. But it must be a huge annoyance for their funders.
She writes:
According to idealized market-based ed reform, the CEO is supposed to be the one with the power, and collective bargaining should not exist. The charter school CEO calls the shots, and if the teachers don’t like it, they can either suck it up or leave.
Ahh, but that dastardly unionizing– it threatens the concetration of power with a CEO. If those teachers each take their bits of power and combine those bits, then the poor CEOs will have to do what market-based ed reform promises powerful CEOs what they should never have to do:
Negotiate.
The ingrates!
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‘cept it ain’t free market if taxpayers get dunned for it …
Hmmm. Are you calling charters and defense big-gubbermint Socialism? Hee hee
the “free” in free market applying well to the concept: FREE to bilk, FREE to scam…
This is hilarious!!!
Billionaire 1: Yeah, but there’s one place where unions are still operating–schools.
Billionaire 2: Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s fund privately owned charters schools. No government “public good,” no unions. . . .
Billionaire 3: Brilliant!!!
Charter Teacher: You know, I’m getting pretty tired of teaching for less than the bag boy makes at the grocery. Let’s go on strike.
Billionaires: OK. Plan B.