Teachers unions in West Virginia claim to have walked out of their classrooms a second time in a year “for the kids,” but a resident journalist says many parents and teachers are keeping quiet about their distrust of that claim due to “overwhelming fear and intimidation related to unions.”
Jayme Metzgar — a 17-year West Virginia resident and a senior contributor at the Federalist — wrote Friday that many parents support both higher teacher salaries as well as school choice. Consequently, the unions’ mantra, during its second strike two weeks ago, that school choice options “will hurt public schools and kids” caused parents to question the justification for the strike.
Despite distrust of the unions’ motives, Metzgar said many of these parents and teachers decided to keep quiet, and an investigation into their reasons uncovered fear to challenge the striking teachers.
“This is especially true in the state’s southern coal counties, where organized labor has a long, proud, and sometimes violent history,” Metzgar wrote.
Her observation is especially noteworthy since the West Virginia strike was fueled by #RedforEd, a social media campaign that is the slogan of a socialist movement supported by the national teachers unions and first launched in Arizona by Marxist teacher Noah Karvelis.
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4 comments:
Imagine that, Marxist unions owning Democrat politicians directing Marxist teachers to demand that taxpayers have NO CHOICE in how their "investments" are spent. Self-licking ice cream cone, anyone?
this is why we need school vouchers. UNIONS are deep state swamp scum and teaching kids to accept she males no way get them ready for life in real world
Oh boy!!!
Another comment from sbj, the anti-Union fanatic who knows absolutely zero about Unions, when and why they were formed, or why they are still so important to the blue collar worker. Apparently incapable of comprehending the big picture. Has absolutely nothing to do with the she male movement. As I stated before, do some research before commenting on something you obliviously know nothing about.
Where are you sjb ?
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