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sabrina 1

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9. I don't think anyone should be surprised at all. I am surprised it took this long since
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 04:08 PM
Sep 2012

the policies of Rahm Emanuel have been to privatize the public schools, to bring in outside Charter School Businesses, while promoting the closing down of Public Schools.

What IS surprising is that they were so arrogant, so convinced that they could destroy the Public School System, bully the Unions (which Rahm and his business cohorts have been doing since he took office), keep firing public workers in favor of hiring less qualified but cheaper labor, hand over public funds to private Corps where profits have to be made from the money that SHOULD be going to education.

This battle has been brewing for a long time. But they always forget when it comes down to it, the American people support the working class over Big Business. Rahm assumed he had control over the Unions and could just ram through his Privatization policies without any interference from the lowly working class.

This strike is extremely important to start rolling back these policies of privatization, as we have seen with Scott Walker and the rest of the Anti-Public School Koch brother supported elected officials.

Either the people stop them now, or before long everything will be privatized.

This isn't just about the few points they are negotiating, it is about saving the Public Schools from the Privatizers, which sadly, Democrat Rahm Emanuel is a part of.

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