THE ‘STORM’: WISCONSIN TEACHERS’ UNION MEMBERS INVADE ARIZONA

The cliche “If you can‘t beat ’em, join ‘em,” might be tired, but it’s also true. Unfortunately, the Wisconsin Teachers‘ Unions don’t appear to have taken it to heart following their humiliating defeat against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who appears to have routed the teachers‘ unions so completely that they’ve decided to leave Wisconsin. Woefully enough, they haven’t left to ponder their failings, do some soul searching and emerge modernized. Rather, they’ve decided that rather than shrug their shoulders and say, “If you can‘t beat ’em, join ‘em,” they real message they ought to take away is, “If you can‘t beat ’em, bully someone weaker.”

Thus, today, a story comes from the Arizona Daily Independent indicating that Wisconsin’s teachers union leadership has decided to pack up their highlighters, chalk and apples, and begin picketing schools in Tucson, Arizona. Why? Because of the local school board’s controversial decision to ban schools from offering Mexican-American studies courses that are overly political and aim to radicalize students on the basis of race. At the practical level, this apparently meant banning Mexican-American studies courses altogether (what that means about Mexican-American studies, we don’t like to think), which is where Wisconsin‘s teachers’ unions decided to plant their flag

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