Teachers Prep for Pershing Square Rally
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Participants in a 2010 march calling for no cuts in education funding make their way to the Ronald Reagan building.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — There's no march involved, but expect to see plenty of teachers and students around Downtown on Friday afternoon for a rally aimed at getting the state to put more money into education.
In a sign that attendance may be high, LAUSD and other areas schools will be shortening the school day to allow teachers to participate without missing class.
Entertainment starts at 4pm, with the rally officially starting at 5.
Mario Teran on May 12, 2011, at 09:08PM – #1
The best chance our student's have to get an education, is either private school, or replace all of the teachers. They are in it for the paycheck and nothing else! They don't gave a darn about the students. It's about their jobs. What a joke!
Dixon on May 13, 2011, at 12:20PM – #2
Mario Teran was a student in one of my classes. He sat in the back and never received a grade higher than a C. I had to send him to the dean 3 different times for inappropriate behavior. His citizenship score was U.
Nancy Richardson (@nanorich) on May 13, 2011, at 03:19PM – #3
Not to mention, he went on to execute Che Guevara.
And every time he sees his victim on a kid's t-shirt, a union member get his card.
James Fernsale on May 16, 2011, at 02:27PM – #4
I can thank a public school teacher for the logic and mathematics to understand that there is no money for raises, there is no money to fund pensions, and that the teachers need to start taking pay cuts to ensure that other teachers don't get laid off. If they care about the student to teacher ratio they will do that. Since 2008, the economy has tanked. being in the private sector, even at a profitable company, our staff is coherent enough of finance to understand the reason that our salaries took a cut, why we lost bonuses, and why expenses were reduced.
That's how you run a budget of a business, but that's also how you run a state budget. Cuts have to be made- making the cuts in teacher salaries are the least harmful to the students. The teachers' union insists on being the drama queen when budget cuts are mentioned- pointing out that as a result arts classes will have to go and teachers will have to go. Reduce the benefits, reduce the salaries, reduce, reduce, reduce. You'll keep jobs, you'll keep class sizes from expanding further.