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Teacher who sued WEA could have used a raise

By emmettoconnell
Sun Jan 07, 2007 at 02:57:37 PM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Washington Courts

When the Evergreen Freedom Foundation brings its case against the Washington Education Association to the Supreme Court, they'll have the honor of producing the kind of irony that only comes once in awhile. Their lead plaintiff, Gary Davenport, a former social studies teacher, sued because he didn't like his union using his dues for political purposes and had to quit teaching because it didn't pay enough.

Jim Anderson, who blogs at 5/17 puts it this way:

I seem to recall a particular union spending nearly all its political capital to change that.

Thank God he's forcing the WEA to focus on what is really important, defending themselves from lawsuits instead of fighting for education funding.

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Social Studies Teacher w/out enough math

to figure out what is the supply and demand of social studies teachers?

what is the pay of social studies teachers?

This guy's definition of social studies is memorizing the dates of battles in wars?

It doesn't appear to have anything to do with studying different social phenomena - like what people do for work and how much they make and what they spend it on

and how that creates the community and the society?

This guy should look at what cooks make for a living - in particular, what are the quintiless of income for all cooks!

Without the WEA, teachers would be paid as poorly as cooks and janitors are paid because ...

there is a HUGE supply of people who want to be teachers relative to the number of jobs available.

I guess that isn't an appropriate topic of study for social studies?

I've heard the 'I had to quit teaching because of the salary' thing for decades, and, I have such a hard time keeping my mouth shut - teacher's salaries are publicly posted! What did they think? There is some secret slush fund?

IF you want to be a teacher, AND you can't do a budget for your own life, what are you bringing to the classroom? Let Them Eat Cake?

Before I go to far off the deep end here, there seem to be a lot of screws loose with this story?

rmm.

http://www.liemail.com/BambooGrassroots.html

by rmdSeaBos on Sun Jan 07, 2007 at 04:15:24 PM PST

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