forte, spokesperson for the department of education. contrast those examples, now with what is happening in rhode island. this is one of the poorest performing high schools in rhode island and they are now planning on firing all the teachers because they refuse to adapt to longer school days. 25 minutes longer. no, no, no, no. no, i only work three-quarters of the year. no, no, tutoring struggling students, absolutely not. i have tenure. central falls high school superintendent, francis galow, god bless you, francis. late last week she announced she would have no choice but file all 74 school teachers after the central falls teacher union didn t accept her improvement plan in the school. fire them. if the unions won t do it, fire them all. break the back of the leech on our neck. in interview with the journal, gallo blamed the
responsibility of a parent is to make sure your children are getting an education that they need. we are the educators. they re the helpers. but the schools do share in that responsibility. well, california is on fire. if we get caught now we have to fire teachers. really? according to l.a. weekly the l.a. superintendent identified 1,000 bad teachers that he d like to fire. based on their performance. 1,000 teachers. guess what? can t. he can t fire a single one of them, thanks to state laws and the teachers union. understand this. i have no problem with unions in critical places. like if you have employees that are being abused, you have like coal mines. you got somebody where you take one person out and switch them with another, you might need a union. and when there is abuse of the employees, you definitely need a union. but how about when the unions are the abusers?