When teachers are scum.

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Cry me a river, slimebags.

Apparently, you're unaware you have a part time, 183 day or so per year job.

Apparently, you're unaware that our economy sucks.

Apparently, you were unaware of how much the job paid when you took it.

Apparently, you can't take responsibility for the piss-poor product you produce... and apparently, you're unaware that it's illegal for public employees to strike.

Were it up to me, I would use the New Jersey gambit, where a judge ordered the arrest of all teachers in alphabetical order.

By the time he got to the "c" names, the strike was, as I recall, over.

Strike and be damned, you scum.

Tacoma, Wash., teachers begin picketing 

Updated 08:37 a.m., Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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  From left, Danielle Gunns and Annette Hockman are among the members of the Tacoma Education Association (TEA) applauding at the start of a meeting to vote whether to strike at Mount Tahoma High School, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. Photo: The News Tribune, Janet Jensen / AP

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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Teachers in Washington state's third-largest school district picketed in front of the city's major high schools Tuesday, hours after they overwhelmingly voted to walk away from the classroom.

The strike kept 28,000 students at home.

Union spokesman Rich Wood said teachers began arriving at Lincoln High School at 6 a.m. Tuesday. The plan was to have teachers at the city's four major high schools demonstrating all day.

Eighty-seven percent of the Tacoma Education Association's total membership voted Monday evening to walk out, after weekend contract negotiations failed to result in an agreement, Wood said.

Issues in dispute include pay, class size and the way the district's teachers are transferred and reassigned.

The Tacoma School District planned to seek an immediate court injunction Tuesday to terminate the strike, which school officials contend is illegal, district spokesman Dan Voelpel said.

Superintendent Art Jarvis will revisit the decision to keep schools closed in light of whatever happens in court, Voelpel said.

Both the Washington attorney general and state judges have ruled that state public employees do not have the right to strike.

Teachers applauded and waved signs before Monday's vote at Mount Tahoma High School.

District officials, meanwhile, sent automated calls to parents and staff explaining their response to the strike.

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Memo to teachers:  you don't like what we're paying you?

Then quit.

Otherwise...
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