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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

School Tech Connect: Action Call... Maybe

School Tech Connect: Action Call... Maybe:

Action Call... Maybe

Nice Op-Ed (submitted) from Cinda. Definitely more of a writer than a talker, that one. I wonder if the dishonest rag she submitted it to will run it. Seriously, how any Illinois public school teacher can use the Trib's education program is beyond me. The NY Time's education program is just as cheap and it's written at a more "rigorous" grade level. And it's not run by a criminal enterprise.
Have you thought about the future? Public school teachers in Illinois are ineligible to receive social security. If the pension system is killed off, what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of people who do now or will rely on that system for retirement stability? They have no social security to fall back upon.
Then what? Then what will the Trib and the Civic Committee do?
You act as if public employees are the enemy of this state. We are not. We are representatives of