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“Law & Order” Investigates Teachers’ Union | Intercepts

“Law & Order” Investigates Teachers’ Union | Intercepts

“Law & Order” Investigates Teachers’ Union

While shooting the season finale, the producers of Law & Order were unaware that NBC was about to cancel the long-running hit television series. Otherwise I’m sure they would have chosen a different story for the show’s swan song.
The plot of the finale centers around New York City’s rubber rooms. The villain is an anonymous blogger who threatens to blow up a city school. One plot element features “a site in which city teachers gossip about their jobs.” Edublogging makes the big time!
And there’s a teachers’ union subplot. The detectives visit the headquarters of the fictional “Teachers Union of