What happens when a school district pays its faculty over three times the median income ($22,000) of the community? Arrogance!

Central Falls High School in Rhode Island has an abysmal graduation rate of 48 percent. At midyear of this academic year, 50 percent of all the students are failing all of their classes. The school superintendent gave them two options.

Option One: two additional weeks of training in the summer (at $30 per hour), spend one lunch hour per week eating with the students, work an extra 25 minutes per day, and help tutor students for an hour before or after school on a rotating schedule.

Option Two: get fired.

Last week, the teachers, earning $70,000 to $78,000 per year, said “no.” At least their union said “no.” Union leaders felt they should get to negotiate. Already earning exorbitant pay while performing at a substandard level, they have the arrogance to believe they should get to negotiate!

School Superintendent Frances Gallo gave them Option Two. If the teachers don’t change their mind within ten days, 100 teachers, administrators and assistants at Central Falls High School will not have jobs next year.

These people are infected with a special type of arrogance which includes total greed and total laziness. I am sorry to say that they don’t just deserve to be fired they deserve the good old southern practice of being tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
No people can be free with attitudes such as these teachers have. I pray we have none such as them in Tennessee.

Give me a Free Tennessee.

From Solitude,
David O Jones