Where do Michelle Rhee's children go to school? Glad you asked....

[timdog44]

187. Actually I think teachers do go on strike

for the reasons you say they don't. I will not be able to give you any records on this, just opinion. I come from a big family of public school educators. They are always concerned about class size, expanding programs, updating computers. All the things you talk about. Problem is, when they go on strike, all the MSM is concerned about is $$$. And a big movement out there is that teachers already make too much for the "little amount of time they spend on the job". Maybe they should try to bring the focus to those other issues, but they can not make the media print what they don't want to print.

The thing that needs to be done, as someone mentioned earlier, is to make public schools into the kind of schools that would make private schools not that attractive. Barring the religious private schools where people send their children because they think they will get a better education (but not always). Public schools are not funded enough to do what they are designed to do. And the policies set into motion regarding public schools by the corporatist faction in this country has made it even more difficult.