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Government Teachers’ Unions Unveil New COVID-19 Demand: Pay Us For Doing Nothing
The Federalist ^ | July 31, 2020 | Kylee Zempel

Posted on 07/31/2020 9:36:03 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Oorang
RE:”I've sent about ten emails, over a two week span, to my state senator and two state reps (all Republican) asking one question...”Will I get a refund of a portion of my property tax that funds schools since they have been closed”.
I have yet to receive a reply from any of them.”

Of course not, they already spent the $$$

It's not them, it's their voters. Typical poll indicates those polled want teachers paid to NOT teach.

Sixty-five percent also oppose cutting funding to those schools that do not reopen, compared to 22 percent who support the idea
Majority opposes Trump administration demand that schools reopen: poll(BY ZACK BUDRYK - 07/15/20 07:28 AM EDT)

21 posted on 07/31/2020 10:52:46 AM PDT by sickoflibs (BREAKING NEWS: BLM cures COVID-19, it's safe to go out and protest Trump again.)
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To: sickoflibs

I live in Maryland and a couple months ago I paid my property taxes to the county which primarily goes to the closed public schools, ~ $7000 annually.


Time to move to a state with lesser property taxes.


22 posted on 07/31/2020 10:55:53 AM PDT by zaxtres
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To: Kaslin

California teachers are demanding everything but having to teach.


23 posted on 07/31/2020 11:05:52 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

#7 My aunt and uncle in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey were paying $9,000 a year back on 2003 for their small single story home built in 1959 that they paid about $43,000 for.


24 posted on 07/31/2020 11:07:59 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Kaslin

On August 5,1981 following the PATCO workers’ refusal to return to work, Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life.

Just saying.....


25 posted on 07/31/2020 11:08:22 AM PDT by maddog55 (Only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it.)
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To: Kaslin

If they don’t have school, why should I pay school tax?

Rhetorical question. I pay it so they won’t arrest me, of course, but I’m just saying.


26 posted on 07/31/2020 11:49:54 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Kaslin

Oh so they still want to get paid but not show up for work? How convenient for them. What a bunch of selfish cowards. What about pharmacy workers, grocery workers, ect, who have to expose themselves to the public in order to get paid? I don’t hear them complaining. Fine, I say don’t go to work and then apply for the federal supplement.


27 posted on 07/31/2020 12:08:54 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: elpadre

Seeing their sign saying they want to live, makes them frankly look like a bunch of sniveling P^&&*((s.


28 posted on 07/31/2020 12:10:13 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

Yes! From the several sources I have read, the classrooms are the safest place in town to be. No evidence that young people have ever spread the virus and the young people are the least apt to receive the virus. That sounds like the proverbial “win-win” situation. Monitor the teachers to make sure they don’t spread it one another. I know they aren’t, but their leaders sound like a bunch of prima-donnas. You know the type - their bowel movements don’t stink!


29 posted on 07/31/2020 12:27:25 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: CIB-173RDABN

California property tax $1,200

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Central (Red) Illinois property tax $770


30 posted on 07/31/2020 2:47:08 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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NO federal money to schools that cannot or will not reopen on time

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10% of a public school budget is money from federal funds.

People should be raising hell at the state and local levels.


31 posted on 07/31/2020 2:53:11 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: elpadre

Oh yes, I know the type alright. Albeit I live in Canada, but my step mother was a union teacher. She was the epitome of crap don’t stink. The type of person that talks down about “other” people.


32 posted on 07/31/2020 3:02:01 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Graybeard58

Central (Red) Illinois property tax $770

Surprised but good to see not every state tries to balance their budget on the back of homeowners.


33 posted on 07/31/2020 4:01:21 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

In Illinois, maybe other states too, property taxes are issued county by county.

Cook county, sky high. I’m in the center of the state in red Tazewell county.


34 posted on 07/31/2020 5:51:54 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Kaslin; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

35 posted on 08/03/2020 8:32:58 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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