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Christie's war on teachers needs some new tactics

DECEMBER 27, 2010

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Enough already.

We get it. Everyone in the state gets it. Gov. Chris Christie hates the New Jersey Education Association. He believes the teachers union leaders are interested in nothing more than protecting their own interests, that they care little about students, taxpayers or anyone else, and that they have long been sacrificing the quality of New Jersey education at the altar of fat pay and benefits for the state's teachers.

And he wants us all to believe that he will be the one at long last to drive a stake through the NJEA demon.

Can we just move on already? Or will the governor not rest until every New Jerseyan — or at least every one of his supporters - believes that public school teachers and their luxurious taxpayer-funded lifestyles