Do the Chicago striking teachers really have any support?

[Scuba]

Perhaps this photo from yesterday will shed some light on that question...

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. They're saying 50,000 at that rally

Wow.

[xchrom]

2. Solidarity. Nt

[XanaDUer]

3. And I'm reading all sorts of ugly things on Yahoo news

about them. Makes my blood boil- you know the usual: they have three months off; why do they make MORE than other teachers, like in TX, where they make 30k/year. They just don't get it. Instead of demanding decent wages and working conditions for ALL working Americans, better to tear down the last bastions of same.

[Downwinder]

4. I sure would not brag on the Texas educational system.

[Hells Liberal]

9. For God's Sake, let them secede already!

Texas has been bringing down this country ever since (I'm ashamed to say it as a faithful Democrat) the Johnson administration. And presidents from Texas have been getting dumber ever since.

We should just let them go, but only after we shut down every military facility in that state and remove every piece of weaponry and hardware. We will also need to build a fence around Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico so those illegal Texans don't try to sneak into this country.

When that happens, I'm going to sit back and laugh when Mexican tanks roll in to reclaim what was stolen from them in 1830. I'll laugh my ass off when I see that first tank roll across the Rio Grande.

[Hells Liberal]

29. Tell me something I don't know.

[XanaDUer]

32. One poster mentioned TX specifically

And of course- they should be glad they even have jobs!

[Hells Liberal]

7. Amen XanaDUer!

I've been reading those things, too.

I just completed a teaching internship as part of my M.Ed. I can tell those boneheads that we work a helluva lot longer than 6 hours a day. When we're not in the classroom, we write lesson plans, call parents, supervise school clubs, attend workshops, etc.

And that doesn't even factor in how tiring it is ride herd over 150 or more kids a day. Also, those boneheads also have no fucking idea how expensive it is to live in Chicago.

I was arguing with an ex-friend who's now a right-wing cop about this who had the nerve to say that "teaching isn't a real job." He doesn't realize that after the wingnuts dismantle public education, they'll dismantle public safety, too. Cops and teachers should be on the same side, but so many cops are such right-wing assholes, I'll have a hard time feeling sorry for them when "Robocop" becomes reality, and police departments are privatized and eventually dismantled like our public education is going through right now.

[sevenseas]

25. YOU GO, Girl!

[Hells Liberal]

30. Thanks, sevenseas!

But I'm a boy. Wait. Let me check again.

(Undoing my belt. Unzipping the fly. Looking inside the tighty-whities.)

Yep. I'm a boy. But thanks for the kind words.

[Brickbat]

10. Some of that right here at DU.

[XanaDUer]

31. Yup nt

[grandpamike1]

18. Yahoo

News has the most vile and repugnant posters of all sources. Mostly, anti-Obama, anti- Democratic voices I have ever read.

[sevenseas]

27. You are So Right

It looks like a concerted effort on the part of the news people to have twice as many Repub guests, and not let the few Dems even answer a complex question without being interrupted after a few words.....what is going on?

It is like they are trying to squash the Democrats. I guess it makes them feel powerful.

Funny will be when the Repubs steal this election, and not give their ditto-head news people the time of day, even if they had promised big jobs and board seats.

I am not talking about Fox news- we know about them- I am talking about the so-called mainstream news people on CBS and NBC, and maybe even some on PBS.

[jumptheshadow]

24. Want to protect the middle class?

Support unions!

[Starry Messenger]

5. k&r

[porphyrian]

6. . n/t

[rurallib]

8. methinks Rhambo picked the wrong fight.

[tavalon]

36. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

Sarcasm

[99Forever]

11. K&R

[Egalitarian Thug]

12. K&R for another "We told you so" moment. n/t

[barbtries]

15. that's good.

listening to NPR yesterday it seemed the worst and most newsworthy thing about the strike was that parents have to figure out what to do with their kids.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Interesting how they left out the large numbers of parents walking the picket lines

WITH the teachers.

[barbtries]

17. hell yes they did.

they interviewed a parent and asked her if she was pissed about the strike, without ever mentioning just WHO she was pissed off at over the strike. i'd be pissed off too, if my child's teacher was being treated the way these teachers are.

NPRR = national public republican radio

[Chorophyll]

21. NPR is all but unlistenable.

Their news has become like everyone else's; devoid of analysis and full of false equivalences.

[barbtries]

22. yep.

i love a lot of their programs but their political coverage sucks. badly.

[Chorophyll]

23. I like my local coverage on WNYC, and the cultural programming is still great

(I'm a nerd) but the news sounds no different than CNN.

It's really goddamn frustrating.

[patrice]

19. K&R

[Chorophyll]

20. Wow. Thanks for posting, because I had no idea.

Solidarity.

[limpyhobbler]

26. kick

[hay rick]

28. K&R

[mike_c]

34. solidarity!

Proud California Faculty Assn and SEIU member here, supporting the CTU all the way!

[senseandsensibility]

35. Go, teachers!

I am proud of them, although I know they didn't make this decision lightly, nor is this easy for them. I am with them in spirit, and it is great to see that others are too.