Chicago Teachers' Strike

I agree with Beth. I can watch the news on TV but avoid the teacher bashing in online comments and blogs.

Thanks to Republican governors and legislatures teachers in many states, including Indiana, have no voice in aspects of their their working environment such as class size and teaching assignments, professional actions such as parent conferences and professional development, or decisions that affect their students such as curriculum and assessments. Luckily a judge just struck down a part of the Indiana law that allowed admins to lengthen the school day without notice, discussion or additional compensation for longer hours.

I can't imagine how this will all play out, but I am sure it won't be pretty. Politicians and so called experts like Michelle Rhee have made teachers the enemy. Teachers have no choice but to fight back to defend their students and themselves from political attacks and the lies and misinformation campaigns that paint us as greedy, lazy and self-serving with no care or concern about our students. I just wish parents would join teachers in fighting for quality education instead of believing and  supporting the politicians who care nothing about the quality of education. Politicians want the money from cuts in education to buy votes with tax breaks and so called tax surplus refunds. You get what you pay for. Politicians have chosen not to pay for quality in education or educators. Things will get a lot worse before they get better.