A Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly received a letter from his daughter, and her classmates, asking him to save teacher’s jobs … and he wasn’t happy about it.
Seriously.
From CBS:
A North Carolina lawmaker doesn’t think it was right for his daughter and her third-grade class to write to him and other elected officials protesting possible cuts in state education spending.Republican state Rep. Mike Stone says his daughter asked in her note to “please raise the budget, dad” and help keep two teacher assistants employed.
Stone told WRAL-TV: “As I read through this (letter), anger completely shot through me, and I was trying to hold myself together. (It’s unconscionable) to know any education system would use a daughter against her father.”
Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue are at odds over the budget that is on her desk to either sign or veto. Some in education say the proposed spending plan could eliminate 9,300 positions in the public schools. Republicans have said those numbers are exaggerated.
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This article appears in Jun 7-13, 2011.
Children should not be used as prison labor to do the bidding of the teachers unions. If the teacher wants additional funding then write your own note. Does the teacher have the kids help with cosigning to get a car loan too? Grow up and stand on your own two feet!
Billy Bob Frank Griffin, please memorize this: There are no teacher unions in North Carolina. In fact, they’re illegal in N.C. In other words, that particular part of the rightwing blather you consistently parrot on this site doesn’t apply. Get a clue for crying out loud. More and more pitiful all the time.
To John Grooms,
Maybe you’ll comment on this here since you didn’t in your own article:
Charlotte Observer, June 5:
“The Republican K-12 budget spends about 99.5 percent of what Perdue proposed in her budget in February.”