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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 11:02 AM Original message |
Providence teachers protest as city lays out timeline for termination plans |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. Why are schools and indigent services ALWAYS the first to be cut? |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 11:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. teachers have been demonized by both parties. |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 12:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I'm not a teacher, my kids aren't in school, and it's majorly pissing me off. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 12:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I have one in school and i don't necessarily like all his teachers, and |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. You are correct, schools are one of the most costly state expenditures. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Our money is with the corporations and rich. Get it from them. |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 12:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. How did they get your money? |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 01:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. tax breaks. bailing them out. loop holes. |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I don't know much about Rhode Island. Who are the major players? |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 05:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. This mayor is a "progressive democrat" |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-03-11 07:03 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Or perhaps, just perhaps--there is a real problem with the budget. |
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sudopod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-03-11 07:18 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Or perhaps, just perhaps |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-03-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. It is hard to imagine a state where unions have more power |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-03-11 07:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Well, there you go. It appears to me that Providence is being forced to make some tough choices |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 01:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Go where the money is? When my son started school, many of his teachers were on food stamps |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 05:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I'm not sure I understand--are you in Florida or Rhode Island? |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 05:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Suggestion... |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-03-11 08:03 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. In Florida. But school budgeting is school budgeting, whether in Rhode Island, Florida. |
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fittosurvive (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I'm not sure I understand--are you in Florida or Rhode Island? |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-03-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. You can't undo the past |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-02-11 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. Education is over-rated. We're not using our democracy anyway. |
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