Strike!

I wonder how many blog entries I've made over the past 13.5 years on teachers' strikes.  The answer is too many.

Photographer Bonnie and I spent some time in Dallas Tuesday morning.  Teachers were staging a one day strike because the school board failed to vote on a proposed contract the night before.  Teachers in Dallas have been without a contract for more than three and a half years.  The teachers' union insists their demands are reasonable.  The school board says the district-- and the taxpayers still can't afford it.

Why does Pennsylvania continue to be such a backward state?  Good teachers should get good money.  Bad teachers should get bounced.  There has to be a fair and equitable way to pay teachers, get good ones in the classroom, get bad ones out, and not kill homeowners and taxpayers in the process.

We're better than this.