At Least 15% of Oakland Teachers Participate in Violent #Occupy Protests
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, November 3, 2011, 4:34 AM
It’s for the kids…
At least 15% of public school teachers participated in the violent protests yesterday in California. Several banks had their windows smashed, a Wholefoods store was attacked and the Oakland Port was shut down during the mob attacks.
The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed one teacher.
Elementary School Teachers earn around $60,000 a year in the Oakland area.
That does not include benefits.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported, via The Lede:
At least 15 percent of Oakland teachers took today off to participate in the Occupy Oakland general strike, the school district said. A little more than 300 teachers missed work to join the strike, said Troy Flint, a district spokesman. The district won’t know exactly how many didn’t come to work until later today, Flint said….
Gretchen Bailey, a kindergarten teacher at Global Family School in Oakland for 15 years, said she took the day off without pay to protest both local budget cuts and the national goals of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“I think we need new tax laws,” she said. “We all need to share more of the burden.”
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Roy Rogers commented:
Behold Obama’s new “civility.” Union fighting union in the streets of Oakland.
billygoat commented:
Makes you wonder how these teachers were able to attend…sick days perhaps?
Wheeze commented:
which is why we home schooled our kids….. The public school system is a vast waste land of nuts….
Molon Labe commented:
Teachers are the new lawyers…useless, greedy, and stupid.
RedBeard commented:
Share the burden? The idiot teacher must be talking about the 47% who pay NO federal income tax at all.
If my grandsons had her as a teacher, they would be removed and sent to a private school. You know, so they could actually learn something.
NEA, the National Egregious Anti-educationalists.
Reaganite Republican commented:
I had angry lib teachers like that… you could feel the bitterness in the swats, which they used to blow off steam apparently lol
Clutch commented:
Teachers @ protest = just more union goons in the street (albeit with a slightly higher education than their knuckle-dragging brethren).
Reaganite Republican commented:
BTW- $60K a year should thrill these teachers, the US middle class ave is about 50K now- and their job is about as easy as it gets, esp in summer when paid to not be there!
Owen J commented:
This is Oakland keep in mind. Only 15% showing up is a victory for sanity — I live out here and I would have thought it would be about 90%.
Of course, maybe the other 75% couldn’t work the GPS well enough to find the protest.
Missy8s commented:
FIRE THEM!
BarbaraS commented:
If I was a parent in Oakland, I would not want these nasty, filthy people teaching my children or, indeed, being in the same vicinity with them. The old saying “you are judged by the company you keep” has never been truer as it is in this case.
unicornhole commented:
@Roy Rogers: what does this have to do with Obama?
@billygoat: it says in the article they were not paid, apparently reading is not your strong suit but why bother with that when fox news tells you everything you need to know?
@wheeze: willing to bet you did not want your child taught the “evils” of evolution. Why would you want your children to think for themselves, or even worse, catch the “gay”!
unicornhole commented:
You are all making me embarrassed to be an American.
unicornhole commented:
Public schools suck because sheep like you keep voting against school levies and refuse to tax millionaires. I hope your children don’t grow up to be as uneducated as you.
Carbon Pootprint commented:
unicornhole commented:
You are all making me embarrassed to be an American.
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You were probably born that way.
15% in Oakland Greecefornia does seem to be a low number. As the Progressive Traitor Party would say “IT’S A MORAL VICTORY!!!”
john commented:
Time to set up the firing squads.
RedBeard commented:
Go away, “unicornhole.” Your ignorance, as a wise man once stated, is encyclopedic.
Lovely name, by the way. Do you write that on the blackboard in your classroom for the kiddies to use when addressing you?
#1AMERICAN commented:
buck fobama and all unions…. nothing but commie thugs
unicornhole commented:
@carbon pootprint: I didn’t think you believed anybody was “born” a certain way. Nothing a little bible readin won’t fix. Or maybe I should pray to Rick perry for forgiveness?
unicornhole commented:
Here’s hoping the next “rapture” takes you all away. Jesus thinks you guys are a bunch of idiots, too.
RedBeard commented:
Oh, goody! Unicornhole (just love that erudite name) is not only a grasping leftie who can’t get enough of other people’s money, but is a member of the Christian-bashing contingent as well.
Maybe unicornhole can start tossing the usual leftie racism accusations around, and make this a trifecta.
DomesticGoddess commented:
Judge Judy tape (already yanked from CBS)
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15915
This is the product of public skoolz and the nanny state.
Highlander commented:
Don’t feed the troll folks. It only encourages him/her.
usamopatriot commented:
“unicornhole”
Another liberal proving Ann Colter’s book, “Godless” to be right on the money.
Joe College commented:
Obama makes a casual, classless, cruel, damaging and needless insult to Sarkozy. The French president’s wife just had a kid, so Obama said at a news conference…
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/11/obama-sarkozy-press-for-solution-to-european-debt-crisis/1
“I’m confident that Julia inherited her mother’s looks, rather than her father’s,” Obama said.
unicornhole commented:
The thing that I love about the idea of hell is that there will be no Christians there.
unicornhole commented:
@Usamopatriot: there is nothing in a book written by Ann colture that is “right on the money”.
RedBeard commented:
Highlander, you’re probably right. The troll is doing fine at making him/herself into a complete ass with no external help.
Carbon Pootprint commented:
#27 November 3, 2011 at 7:51 am
unicornhole commented:
Well you losers are going to fail again so please get there ASAP.
unicornhole commented:
“highlander”!? Are you serious? Was knight rider taken? Do you own a sword? Do you wear a utilikilt? I smell a stargate fan!
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
Global Family School? Global’s student body is 83 percent Latino, four percent African American, and 11 percent unspecified. Both populations are integrated within a single classroom where instruction is conducted for 50 percent of the day in English and 50 percent of the day in Spanish.
More than 94 percent of the school’s families do not speak fluent English, and more than half of the parents have not completed high school. This school is in the United States of America!
Meg commented:
Fire the teachers. Sick time is not for protesting it is to be used for illness. Public schools do not suck because of lack of funds. The more money they get, the worse the outcome. This has been proven over the years. I will never vote for another school levy. Why pay for something that doesn’t work. Small private schools cost one-third of what one student in public schools get per student and the kids actually learn. We need a restructuring of our public education system. Get rid of the Department of Education and let the States handle their schools.
obfuscatenot commented:
For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of America.
burt commented:
The average taxpayer does not make $60,000 a year. Most college professors make twice that amount, but that doesn’t stop the local college from calling you up begging for money. They are all a bunch of panhandlers trying to make your money theirs.
mcc commented:
Hey, Teach – it’s loud and clear from Colorado:
Actually, they’re saying ‘let government make do with what they take from us already’. And good for them….
Coloradans Vote Heavily Against a Tax Increase That Would Benefit Schools and Colleges
November 1, 2011, 11:36 pm
http://www.politicaljack.com/forums/showthread.php?5966-Coloradans-say-NO-to-kids-and-education….
maraz commented:
Is this the garbage the teacher is teaching? Did you hear him say that wealth is a “sacred right“?
Only sacred rights are those given to us by G-d such as Life, Liberty, and a right to pursue happiness… this is not to be construed as a right to happiness only a right to pursue that which makes you happy. Anything given to you by other men is not a right. Thus healthcare is not a right and wealth is not a right… what total BS garbage. This is what we get when the government runs the Education system.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
California needs to fail, and fail spectacularly. I say this as a current resident and a native of this cesspool of a state.
If I ever get a job offer from an out-of-state employer, I won’t be able to leave fast enough.
Beef commented:
What needs to be smashed is the government school monopoly whose main purpose is to fund incompetents and indoctrinate the populace.