Teachers Rally At The Statehouse Is Not Helping Students
The teachers are angry. This in itself is not news. What’s newsworthy about the teachers this time, is their anger is focused on the “property tax relief” bill that Governor Braun says he will sign into law. Apparently, the measly $300 credit that is being promised to homeowners across the state will bankrupt the schools. So, the teachers in their red shirts are marching on the capitol to claim that students and their education are going to be hurt by this “property tax relief” bill. The teacher rally at the statehouse is not about the students, it’s all performance art, to defend the interests of the teachers union.
Tony Katz:
The kinder cannot have school (today) because the teachers need to go engage in some performance art at the Capitol. The Indiana State Teachers Association, which is not together for helping students. They are across the areas of central IN the teachers are not going to be in school. They’ll have e-learning days. Ohh no see the teacher gets to take off, but do kids still have to go to school? This is because they’re upset with the state property tax bill. Now understand, they’re not upset that people are getting a tax cut even though this one doesn’t actually give a tax cut. Ohh, this is a mess. Rather, they’re upset that they’re not getting even more money. Now here’s the story, students, as you’re heading to school. I think that as a matter of just being alive and being a decent person that you are, you’d be like, yeah, well, my teacher deserves more. My teacher’s great. And even if you don’t think your teacher is great, because come on, you might not think your teacher is great. Your teacher might not be great. You might think that as a as a bigger idea, teachers should get paid more. Well, I actually agree, and I have said right here on this radio show that I think that in Indiana we should pay teachers more than any other state in the union, but we should be able to fire the bad teachers. If we could fire the bad teachers, pay the good teachers more than any other place, I think we’d be better off, and we would attract better teachers and we’d have more educated students like yourself and everything would be better for the state and for you and for the future. They argue that we don’t get to fire bad teachers. They also argue that we, whether we parents or just Hoosiers, shouldn’t have a say in education at all. So now they so concerned about what they get paid as if somehow, they are deserving. Remember, this is part of it. The teacher in not in every case and maybe not your teacher, but in a lot of cases, students, they believe that because they are teachers, they are somehow deserving of things for their existence, which is, you know, that’s not how it works. You have to earn things, right? You have to earn your way that they should be able to not teach you today. You don’t have to be taught today; you just have to sit in front of a computer for an e-learning day while they go to the capitol and engage in some kind of chanting and screaming and yelling for their money. Now the cutting of property taxes helps your parents because they end up paying less for the house that that you live in. Now you might live in an apartment or something like that. You don’t have property taxes. Talk about, but in a larger sense, you say that, you know, people who are friends of yours or parents are working hard, Maybe it’d be better if they spent a little bit less. After all, what are they getting back from the city that’s providing services with those property taxes if the city’s mismanaged, etcetera, which is of course my argument and our argument in a lot of places the people deserve their money back. The people deserve not to have property taxes going up and up and up. And every time the people who Hoosiers ask about it, we’re told, well, then you don’t care about students. Well, that’s just really rude. That’s kind of like an emotional blackmail. And I don’t know about you, but I’m not into emotional blackmail. I don’t put up with emotional blackmail. I don’t think you do either. And by the way, you shouldn’t, so good on you. So now I’m gonna speak to the teachers. So I wanted to address this with you. It’s very obvious that members of the Indiana State Teachers Association are engaged in performance art. It’s very obvious that caring about the student is not the goal. It’s not what matters. This is what parents should be aware of.. The idea that we can’t lower property taxes because you decided it’s gonna have a bad effect on your salary. I’m not saying you can’t protest. Could have done it on a Saturday. You chose a Monday. Because you wanted to have an impact on schools. You wanted to have an impact negatively. Look what we could do to you parents. Disgusting, despicable, and you are absolutely not worthy of our love. This is not an argument for why we need unions. This is an argument for why unions need to be busted into 3-4 a hundred pieces and we need to start fresh. This is an argument for private schools. This is an argument for charters. This is an argument for home schooling. That’s the argument the Indiana State Teachers Association is saying. We are irrelevant. We engage in performance art, not actual school performance, and you parents should make better decisions for your kids. That’s what they’re saying to you, Hoosiers. My God, when they tell you who they are, believe them.
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