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» Gov. Christie to NJ Teachers Union: ‘You Punch Them, I Punch You’ - Big Government

» Gov. Christie to NJ Teachers Union: ‘You Punch Them, I Punch You’ - Big Government

Gov. Christie to NJ Teachers Union: ‘You Punch Them, I Punch You’

by Kyle Olson

It’s not every day you hear a governor laying the smack down on a group of thugs like the New Jersey Education Association, but that’s precisely what Gov. Chris Christie did before a stuffy crowd of education reformers recently.

Christie didn’t mince words. He said when he was elected and “arrived on the playground,” he found the administrators and school board laying on the ground bleeding. “That meant there was a bully,” he said.

So his message was simple:

“You walk onto the school yard and you say punch them, I punch you.”


Here’s a governor who is impatient with awful schools and the snail’s pace the Education Establishment travels because adults’ perks and comfort may be disrupted.

But he’s on a mission to explain to his citizens the state of the education system. He’s telling them about