Calif. Teachers Union Tells Members to Harass Local Businesses, Shut Down Roads, Co-Opt Fire Drills…
Via Emily Esfahani Smith:
The California Teachers Association is planning a week’s worth of Wisconsin-style protests and rallies, from May 9-13, to “force legislature to pass tax extensions.” . . .
How do the CTA members plan to pressure California lawmakers on the tax extensions? With anallegedly $1 million budget and a 10-page action plan. You can read the organization’s full list of possible activities, but we present to you this snapshot (hat tip Hot Air):
- Target the businesses of legislators in their home districts.
- Circle the offices of “problem legislators.” Target them with various actions.
- Picket/rally in front of legislators’ offices/homes.
- Follow targeted legislators for the entire day.
- Have students and parents do informational picketing for one hour outside their school site.
- Have parents and students camp in front of schools all night.
- Have teachers being laid off contact parents and other CTA members.
- Make phone calls on Parents’ Day. Call parents to tell them how their child is doing and then talk about the budget cuts and invite them to attend the rallies.
- Refrain from Shopping Day. Show the value of educators and other public employees and the economic contribution they make to local communities by refraining from shopping one day.
- Throw monopoly money in the toilet to show that all our money is going down the drain
- Publish a list of companies that are not paying their fair share of taxes. Send letters to these companies and the media and picket their offices. Withdraw funds from banks that are not paying their fair share. (Editor’s note: CTA is a tax-exempt organization.)
- One-day boycott of Microsoft and other corporations that are pushing failed education reform efforts.
- Turn fire/earthquake drill into crisis response drill to the budget cuts (involve students and the community)
- Attempt to close a major artery into town/cities
- Have celebrities involved in the demonstrations
- Dye hair red or wear red wigs
- Homeless encampments of students and teachers as they can afford a place to live
- Have people participate in a run across the state with a torch (like the Olympics)
- Statewide “A Day with No Teachers”
- Pay for everything with $2 bills to show true impact of teachers
- “Lights Out Day” during the week where educators teach in the dark
- Protest at an MLB game. Everyone wears a matching shirt and sits in one section. Have scoreboard acknowledge their presence (i.e., “pink-slipped teachers seated in section ___”)
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 8:50 pm | 
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A teacher w/o a computer? Never happen. Boycott Microcrap? Never happen.
Losers.
How many of these ‘dedicated’ teachers will be protesting and walking the line when summer vacation begins?
It’s time to cut the teachers unions off. It’s time for teachers to sink or swim based on merit. No more collective bullying. No more socialist indoctrination in the classroom.
“Lights Out Day” during the week where educators teach in the dark
-How symbolic.
These are supposed to be educators, set an example. The reason people act like this, is because they have never had the Boot of Life hit the square in the Ass.
If this country ever has a real emergency, these people with no real life skills and a Piss and Vinegar attitude, will be a deficit.
More intimidation tactics, like what the union thug did to that little shop keeper lady in Wisconsin. But that back fired on him when she ended up on Fox News and Greta’s show, calling the union out for bullying her to put a sign in her shop window or be boycotted.
Someone please explain the $2.00 bill suggestion. I don’t get it.
The public school teachers in California are about the best paid in the country, with top notch benefits. All of the teachers in our local district live in nice homes in nice neighborhoods. They don’t work particularly hard either. Parents that care find themselves doing a great deal of supplemental teaching at home.
I just hope I get one of those “Parent Day” calls. Bring it on!
When will people realize that socialism does not work in the long run?
Educators???….and I thought just politicians were idiots. Oh well, dumbass me.
Useful idiots
Wait a minute. The governor and legislature are fully Democrat. This should be fun. Dear, will you get the pop corn going please?
This makes me sick.
Yeah!!! I live in CA. Bring it, bitches!!!!
btw CTA, how did that strategy work in WI?
I’m a union member. The leadership is communists. Pisses me off.
And these are the DIMWITS that teach our kids. No wonder California ranks damn near the absolute bottom in education with one of the highest per pupil costs in the nation. One week? Hell take a year off you’ll be doing the kids a favor.
Nothing like declaring war on the populace to get sympathy for your cause you f*cking lamebrains. Even Californians are getting fed up with these overpaid and under performing prima donna school fools with their constant pleading for more money. And I for one will be doing everything to thwart your cause.
NCchik says:
April 13, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Someone please explain the $2.00 bill suggestion. I don’t get it.
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Most strip clubs give out $2.00 bills.
Guess the teachers are making a point that they had to go to the pole to make a living.
I really like the torch run across the state – maybe they can start at the Mojave.
work 9 mo a year and protest the rest, that’s what teachers do, when they ain’t smokin dope
“Co-opt fire drills?”
Oh boy. Now THAT is a stellar idea. I wonder how long that will last the first time one of them tries that.
I’ve mentioned this before but it really breaks my heart to see the level that “education” has sunk to in this country (because of my mom who was an excellent teacher for a quarter of a century).
If it wears Purple SHOOT IT!