Michigan students stage sit-in in solidarity with laid-off teachers

[Lucy_Gothro]

@Daaksyde

In a case like this, we would’ve just demanded that they “Keep the teachers”. I wonder if rambling about spirit day participation, event planning mentors, and memorizing names is better somehow.

Don’t wonder. It’s not.

[The_Magus]

The grammar and the use of the apostrophe suggest this is a school in crisis.

[wait_really]

@timrowledge

It is passing strange that in the US it is so easy to find more money to pay sports coaches and deans and ceos more, and yet so impossible to pay actual teachers and needed support staff.

In almost every state (~48/50, and certainly MI) the highest paid public employee is a state university coach.

Or to re-iterate;

In the United States, we value white millionaires managing unpaid, mostly black labor more than we do our elected officials.