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TexasTowelie

(116,876 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:53 AM Jan 2019

Legislation threatens to strip striking teachers of their licenses

Rep. Todd Russ, R-Cordell, has taken the wrong lesson from last year’s statewide teacher strike.

Russ’ House Bill 2214 would make similar strikes illegal. Teachers and superintendents who took part in any future “strike, shutdown or related activities” would lose their pay and have their teaching certificates “permanently revoked,” under Russ’ proposal.

Current law makes teacher strikes against their local school districts illegal, but Russ’ proposal would add bans “as a means of resolving differences with ... the Legislature or any other public official or public body.”

So, regardless of how schools are funded, teachers would be required to report to work every day or risk losing their professional credentials.

Read more: https://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/editorials/tulsa-world-editorial-legislation-threatens-to-strip-striking-teachers-of/article_2a239ed2-d709-5037-aa8b-d08c68763dc1.html

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Legislation threatens to strip striking teachers of their licenses (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2019 OP
Why? JPK Jan 2019 #1
New Oklahoma state motto: Come to OK and lose your civil rights. sinkingfeeling Jan 2019 #2
Every Oklahoma legislative session ... Toorich Jan 2019 #3
God, I hate this state! Mickju Jan 2019 #4

JPK

(684 posts)
1. Why?
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 06:52 AM
Jan 2019

Why does any competent educator even want to work in that s*%thole of a state? Add to that, why would anyone want to live there at all? What does it have to offer besides crazy religious fanatics, gun nuts and um.....

I'd rather eat a bullet than have to live there.

Toorich

(391 posts)
3. Every Oklahoma legislative session ...
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:37 PM
Jan 2019

... produces a plethora of laws that are found unconstitutional after litigation that costs the tax payers
hundreds of thousands of dollars. Perhaps a law that requires the knuckleheads who write, sponsor,
and vote for those clearly unconstitutional laws should get the honor of personally paying for all the
costs and fees incurred in the litigation.

Mickju

(1,812 posts)
4. God, I hate this state!
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 08:19 PM
Jan 2019

It was the biggest mistake of my life to move here from Hawaii when I retired. I thought I would be better off near my family in my old age. I was so wrong and it's too late for me to go back now.

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