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procon

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8. Free labor? Indentured servitude?

Reply to QED (Original post)

Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:26 PM

Feb 2017

How does this nonsense advance the career skills of professional educators? Is flipping flapjacks at the truckstop a substitute for learning child development?

It smells like Republicans are just trying to hide their true vindictive natures by pretending that sexisim isn't the real reason for retaliating against a union that is mostly women.

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Their theory must be that teachers don't know. QED Feb 2017 #3

GOP has hated teachers from the day they formed a union. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #7

So they get free labor out of teachers, like they do convicts, or how they did slaves. brush Feb 2017 #4

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Free labor? Indentured servitude? procon Feb 2017 #8

I predict a massive teacher shortage in Ohio. VMA131Marine Feb 2017 #9

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