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Teachers Playing Hooky?

Thursday, January 5, 2006

It all depends on who you listen to.Today's Star Ledger reports that approximately 2,300 Newark teachers did not report for work on Monday, Jan. 2. The massive no-shows caused chaos in the schools as administrators scrambled to find substitutes. South Orange/Maplewood school districts experienced a similar situation on a much smaller scale. Teachers had been advised by their unions that they were within their rights to take Monday, Jan. 2 off (unlike teachers in Glenridge)  without penalty. Newark's Superintendent Marion Bolden sent a letter to union members reminding them of their contractual obligation to abide by the school calendar, which called for a work day.

Posted on January 5, 2006 2:48 PM
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Comments (9)

Those teachers' unions are the pillars of society, standing up for sloth and the "right" to take a mental health day at the expense of our children. We can only hope that the kids are too stupid to notice the lack of work ethic, though I doubt it.

Posted by walleroo | January 5, 2006 1:40 PM
 

someone's got to fund the Democratic party.

Posted by Right of Center™ (8T) | January 5, 2006 1:44 PM
 

"...approximately 2,300 Newark teachers did not report for work on Monday, Jan. 2."

How could they tell?

Posted by Conan the Grammarian | January 5, 2006 6:01 PM
 


CTG,
We have missed your pithy wit...love the post about the 1 room tutor!!

Posted by The Iceman (8T) | January 5, 2006 6:13 PM
 

since we don't have a community thread today I will spill here:
since being unemployed i have been watching the jim cramer show on cnbc but during commercials i surf around (a male gene disorder i've been told)and i have discovered a food network cutie, rachel ray. she is adorable cause she isn't one of those foo-foo chefs using ingredients that no one knows. am i getting hooked, i better dial back to cramer...boo-yah

Posted by The Iceman (8T) | January 5, 2006 6:35 PM
 

poor iceman

Posted by walleroo | January 5, 2006 6:43 PM
 

Yep, there's a reason us teachers are left-leaning.

Posted by the summer of noise | January 6, 2006 11:40 AM
 

summer, I'm not sure what you mean by that. What I don't understand is what left or right politics has to do with showing up for work on a work day. I consider myself a lib dem, but I'm disgusted with the notion of 2300 teachers just now showing up, if for nothing else than what message it sends to the kids. Do you disaree?

Posted by walleroo | January 6, 2006 9:36 PM
 

Nope , I don't disagree. My comment was not in response to yours, but to some of the other typical garbage that appears here lately. Now we're going to start bashing teachers in Newark.

Posted by the summer of noise | January 7, 2006 9:21 AM
 
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