Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Strike!
I had heard Monday morning on the radio that the Chicago teachers union was striking. I guess I wasn't that suprised because it had been simmering for awhile. What did suprise me was the e-mail I got at 6:30 ish in the morning from a friend of mine who happens to be a high school student. He lives in Chicago and informed me that his school had been called off. He later then e-mailed me that while checking out the strike: he got roped in and ended up holding a sign getting his picture taken by one of his teacher. I found this pretty funny and repeated it to my art 3D class. Then one of my classmates responded that they thought that striking is wrong and that the teachers that are doing it are selfish and denying their students an education. That sorta got me wondering what other people though of strikes. My point of view is that though strikes do deprive others of the sevices provided by the striking party, they are nessessary as an action of last resort. They are however nessessary because sometimes it is the only way to get the company or organization to take the striking party seriously and listen to their demands. As for the teachers, well its common knowlage that teaching isn't the best paying job in the world and even me, as hermit like as you can get in the suburbs, I have seen this comming a mile off. Obviously one side or the other wasn't listening and the strike was the teachers only recourse to put pressures on the negotiations and hurry up the procces as well as get taken more seriously.
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I like this idea for the post, but I wish you had gone more into your opinion of it. I personally think that is was ridiculous for these teacher to demand more money when most of their students don't go to college. Clearly something they're doing is not right. I dunno, make the readers think a little bit more Olivia! :)
ReplyDeleteI beleive that the teachers have a right to strike if they don't get paid enough. I know it's not the same over here but teachers in the city sometimes have to spend their own money to get supplies for the kids. Also, I don't see how teacher's pay affects kids going to college.
ReplyDeleteThey have a right to strike, but I think that striking hurts the students they are trying to teach. While they deserve to ask for more money if they need it, their main job is teaching students. Striking isn't really helping them do that. Maybe I just don't have full scope of the situation, but it is the duty of a teacher to teach.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the teahcer's pay that affects them going to college. These teachers are demanding more money (from their employers) when thye are not doing their job well (kids don't go to college).
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