Wisconsin School Districts Cancelling Classes in Fear of Statewide Walkout

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15 school districts in Southern Wisconsin have canceled classes Thursday in anticipation of a statewide walkout in protest of Governor Scott Walkers bill proposal. He is attacking unions and undercutting our education system. He is trying to take away state, public, and local employee's collective bargaining rights. This is a direct threat to our state's education system and economy as a whole.

I attend the UW-Madison and our campus, along with others are planning a campus wide walkout at about 10 am tomorrow. Protests haven't been seen like this in Madison in decades. 10,000+ people have been protesting at the State Capital over the past two days and numbers are expected to exceed that tomorrow after the Wisconsin Education Association Council requested all it's members to come protest in Madison tomorrow.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_c40c09e4-3a43-11e0-91c0-001cc4c002e0.html
 
hopefully it will not get as rough as this

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Im with you guys. Walker is bullshit, but honestly this was part of his campaign promise, so i kinda have to ask whether anyome saw this coming...and 10000 people voting against him in madison may have made more of a dent
 
Wouldn't be the first time it happened in Madison... a lot of the building constructed in the late 60's and into the 80's were made to be riot-proof. I don't see it happening though.
 
Walker is a straight tool. This is the Tea Party in action, and shit is about to get real.

It's easy for him to undercut education and public workers. The douchenozzle never finished college!
 
i seem to remember madison students rioting alot at halloween, or was that just my brain making that up...off topic
 
Teachers unions are bullshit. They prevent terrible teachers from being fired and are based on seniority and experience rather than teaching ability. If you need any proof, just look at New York and their "rubber rooms" of teachers... American education at its finest.
If you ask me, we should just base our education on a system similar to Europe's, lower the mandatory school time and separate the best and brightest from those who have no future outside a vocational trade.
 
Yeah... OK Go was the main artist to perform last year. None of my friends went. We just went to some house parties. They make you buy a ticket to get onto state street for the festivities.
 
Haha. This is all the rage tonight in NS threads...
Government vs. Unions vs. special interests. and education gets trampled in the middle.
 
well there you go
fucking teachers unions think they are immune to budget shortfalls. As already mentioned, those unions are bs (in my opinion), even when a state isn't in the hole several billion.

Money has to be cut somewhere. It is undoubtedly not the only thing being fiscally constricted.
 
Firefighter unions are out protesting and they are exempt from the proposed changes. Very few people have spoke in favor of the bill. Other than the ignorant republicans rushing this through the voting process.
 
I clearly could use some better education, as I can't even spell "canceling" correctly.

Figured I'd beat the spelling police to it.
 
35 School Districts in Wisconsin have closed their doors to students today.

Here are images of the Capital...

Inside the rotunda:

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Thousands join in protest in front of the state capital:

 
6.9% of the private workforce is unionized36% of public employees are unionized.
That's a big disparity. No question as to why state and federal governments burn through money like obsessive meth addicts.
 
hahaha, buncha kids tried walking out today in class, too bad there were 5 squad cars waiting at all the doors.
 
Agreed... anyone can have him, just get him the hell out of here! If the bill passes (if it still includes the stipulation to remove UW-Madison from the UW system), I will not be returning to the UW system. I will likely just take this as an opportunity to move out west and come back to my schooling after I get in-state status in another state. So, part of myself won't be all that upset if this bill passes, no matter how wrong I know it is.
 
yeah, a bunch of unionized police and teachers caused the economic disaster we are in right now.....

Anyways, fuck walker, looks like me and my future teaching degree are leaving wisconsin to teach in a few years
 
so what they cancel classes, do it the next day. If they cancel that day also, do it the next day, they are trying to take control in this situation, and you easily can take it right back
 
not sure you are getting it, the reason they are not voting has nothing to do with the schools being canceled, it is vice-versa. The reason they are not voting is because the democrat state senators straight up dipped out to illinois, and they cant vote unless they have at least 1 democrat present.
 
What pisses me

off is that while other people were making a killing in the real estate

and hedge fund markets, teachers were working long hours for moderate

wages. Now that the private sector has run itself into the ground,

they're saying that teachers and public employees need to pay their

"fair share" and take cuts. Where was all this talk about "fairness"

when people in the private sector were making a profit? I don't

remember any talk about providing a "fair share" of dividends or

inflated home sales to teachers.

They resisted any regulation because they said "the market

will regulate itself." They said they deserved their high earnings

because they took higher risks. Well, they took their risks and the

markets decided. The bankers, speculators, and real estate sellers all

need to man up, take the losses they caused, and stop trying to stick

their bills on those who live modestly and serve the public.
 
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According to a

local Madison paper: " In its Jan. 31 memo to legislators on the

condition of the state's budget, the Fiscal Bureau determined that the

state will end the year with a balance of $121.4 million.

To the extent that there is an imbalance -- Walker claims there

is a $137 million deficit -- it is not because of a drop in revenues or

increases in the cost of state employee contracts, benefits or

pensions. It is because Walker and his allies pushed through $140

million in new spending for special-interest groups in January." So in

other words, gov D-B created a budget crisis in order to strip school

teachers of bargaining rights.
 
new page... but i think they need more riot control there..... those 4 guys are really getting outta hand
 
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