Wisconsin teachers have been beseeching the state capitol trying to pressure the governor and majority of legislators to negotiate into backing down from changing state policy regarding public service unions.
The merits of the issue are not what is important, although you'd never know that from the news coverage, which emphasises video of unacceptable behavior by the teachers and couching that behavior in terms that are intended to make it acceptable.
1. Almost all Wisconsin teachers have attended these activities by taking paid sick days, i.e., lying about their health and defrauding the entity that pays them.
2. Wisconsin teachers are often screaming nonsense and otherwise behaving out of control.
3. Many Wisconsin teachers are carrying signs depicting the governor as Adolf Hitler and describing him as a Nazi. Other signs are incoherent.
Remember, these are TEACHERS, not clerks in the department of motor vehicles, or cops, or firefighters. TEACHERS! People who have graduated college, specializing in teaching and leading young people, guiding them in dealing with life.
If this is what President Obama would describe as a teachable moment, then what is being taught by these professional Wisconsin teachers to the students of Wisconsin? Nothing positive that I can see.
Wisconsin parents should condemn the teachers and demand that they go back to work and behave themselves. The students of Wisconsin will have plenty of embarrassing and humiliating video of their teachers to throw back at them the next time a Wisconsin teacher tries to exercise classroom discipline or moral suasion.
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