TEACHER ENSLAVEMENT BEGINS, AND N. CAROLINA LEADS THE WAY
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Let the enslavement of teachers begin, and where better to start then in N. Carolina ? North Carolina governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, signed a budget bill Friday that eliminated teacher tenure, did away with automatic pay increases that teachers receive for earning a master’s degree, and froze teacher salaries for the fifth time in six years.
These slavery tactics are now headed to a state near you. Are you ready teachers ? Ready for the new era of slavery ?
Of course the N. Carolina teachers wrote their legislators and demonstrated at the Capitol; all protest methods with about as much success as fighting a grizzly bear with a fly swatter.
I know teachers have courage, because most teachers would be willing to stop a bullet to insure the safety of their students. Why then do the same people refuse to do what’s necessary to prevent their own enslavement ? The N.E.A., the A.F.T., and all teacher unions should organize a nationwide strike to begin this fall, and last until such legislation is revoked and teacher rights are guaranteed.
Teachers, you have one weapon and only one weapon in your arsenal. If the majority of teachers in this
