You believing that is just as despicable. Aren't you worried about the safety of the kids?

Yah right , The Teachers are really getting carried away. First they tell my son that they will not have to do any work because the time they spend with the subs will not count !! They told my son that why bother coming in during the strike. They are so fill of themselves they stink... There should be a law for misleading a minor !!I Wonder why no one seems to on the Teachers side on this .. Very few post seem to support the Teachers ... Wonder Why .. Our Tax dollars sent on people like this !!!

You understand that the offer that the school board has given the teachers includes a lifetime (read teacher's career not lifetime of contract) pay freeze for ALL teachers now and future with starting pay for a teacher, who must have a 4 year college degree in education and hold a valid teaching license with additional education requirements to maintain license, at less then $35, 000. Let's get real.

I have no clue what the offer the school board has proposed as it is not public. I would also say that have you asked the SEA if the budget can afford their proposal. I could understand a cap on salaries at the high end (many companies do that) but not a cap of $35K. My guess is maybe they both have unrealistic proposals but until they are public, I put little faith in anything that anyone posts on these boards with respect to the T&C's of the contracts

There is no way it is a life time pay freeze. It might be a freeze at where they are now and then a new lower scale with merit increases for new teachers. Or it might be a freeze on the scale and then merit increases only. I think we have only half the story just like I think the 15,000 raise is also exaggerated or made up.

Remember contracts are not permanent. They get reopened every few years or so. If it was some kind of freeze it would be open to renegotiation periodically.

150 teachers make 79.000 or more for 9 months of work. That is far more than the police who put their life on the line for 12 months of work.

Fire all of them and hire qualified subs at half the price in their place. www.buckeyeinstitute.org and look at the sickening salaries for 9 months of work. Bye Bye teachers. Have a nice permanent vacation.

Even if they fixed the funding it would not give teachers a raise. The money has to come from the taxpayers in some way - a different way would not produce greater revenue for the schools. It would still be limited by what the taxpayers could afford.

I think banks created the housing mess.

I think the healthcare industry created a financial mess in that healthcare costs so much companies cannot afford it. Any type of serious medical problem / car accident - can bankrupt a family due to changes in policies and deductibles, co pay etc.

Both of these things created the foreclosure mess.

Which created the unemployment mess. (especially construction)

Which worsened the foreclosure mess.

Eventually all that mess created losses in property tax revenue which created the school mess.

No, it was big business in bed with politicians that is responsible for the whole mess.

Also, teachers are not the only sufferers in this mess. They have lots of company who cannot afford to pay taxes to keep teachers in the salary structure they have become accustomed to.

The State Supreme Court may SAY it is unconsitutional but they also did not give a solution for what would be constitutional.funding .... and so back to the beginning .....even if they fixed the funding it would not give teachers a raise.

Ron - "Educators" and other public employees (formerly known as public servants) receive better pay, benefits, retirement pay, etc., than most in the private sector. The abusive Public Employee Unions are just as responsible for the destruction of this country, as the politicians.

All services to the PEOPLE have suffered as a result of government & government unions gone wild. Just look around & you will find that local and state governments are being forced to terminate workers, in order to pay "retirement obligations". On the Federal level, The US Post Office is a prime example.

I and others like me do know our facts. We are not pathetic. Sorry to tell you this, but your GREED has woken a sleeping giant. The insults you hurl, make me aware that you are not able to have an intelligent debate. Therefore, this will be my only response to you.

Ron, the fact is, you are a greedy union thug.

amy a striking teacher does not get paid their $450.00 per day and will be replaced with a substitute making $200.00 per day leaving 250.00 to hire private security and that number is just one teacher multiply that by 200 in a week we will have enough extra money to buy every kid a new book

Amy Amy Amy 250 of them make over 74,000.00 so thats $50,000.00 per day just in savings off those 250 alone

Amy - I have recently learned that there are THREE "Educators", teaching ONE choir class in The North Royalton School System. When my children were in school, there was ONE choir teacher, and an accompanist (volunteer, sometimes a student). My children learned to read music, as well as the basics of proper singing technics.

If each one of these current "Educators" is making $50,000.00 annually (and I'm being extremely conservative in that estimate), then the taxpayer is paying $150,000.00 annually, for a choir class (this does not include benefits).

I have also been informed that the students have ONLY been taught to "open your mouths as wide as possible, to get the best sound" - this is not only incorrect - but, is such direction worth $150,000.00 annually? Incidentally, the children are not taught to sing from the diaphragm, they are not taught to read music, they are not taught to avoid eating prior to singing, etc.