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Re: [Phys-l] Kozol fasts to protest NCLB - defense of unions




----- Original Message ----- From: "LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>

I'm not sure what such a study would mean. In most states where it is
illegal for teachers to strike, they do it anyway. The school committees
then appeal to the courts who then decide if the strike is doing
irreparable harm to the students. Most courts let the strike continue
for a week or so before they finally throw the union leaders in jail for
a few hours or days to break the strike. The teachers themselves are
imprisoned only as a last resort.


Same process here...which of course is a great Civics lesson for the students on how to defy the law without negative consequences. ;-(

In addition, those 'law-abiding' teachers who don't go out get forever shunned by the union types, sometimes overtly but most often in more subtle and covert ways.

Rick