This gives me hope

[Horn6721]

that we are not all sliding down into the "give me, give me" tar pits.

"Students and teachers from Old Rochester Regional Junior High School have teamed up for many years to serve a traditional Thanksgiving dinner to senior citizens in the school cafeteria.

But this year the teachers thought it would be an opportune time to bring their complaints about a lack of a collective bargaining agreement to the community. How? By refusing to participate in the traditional Thanksgiving event.

That’s right, as a way to protest their lack of a contract, the teachers bailed on the students and senior citizens. But the students and a group of volunteers kept the tradition alive on their own.

As WickedLocal.com reported: “Despite not having their teachers to back them up, the eighth-graders at Old Rochester Regional Junior High School offered up their 23rd annual community Thanksgiving dinner Sunday, Nov. 18, in the school cafeteria for senior citizens in the Tri-towns.

“ORR Junior High Principal Kevin Brogioli debated whether he and the eighth-graders would be able to put on the community feast without the help of ORR teachers, who decided not to assist this year as a protest for being forced to work without a contract for two years. "
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As for the selfish teachers who thought they could score points by hurting the seniors and the kids, they should sink into the tar pits.

 

[CedarParkFan]

Sounds like the students have more integrity than their teachers could ever wish for. Good for them. Teachers unions are garbage anyway.

 

[Crockett]

Wow, you would think a teacher's union would be a little more PR Savvy. "I'll be a real jerk until youshow me some love" is a losing strategy in almost all relationships.

 

[Larry T. Spider]

1. Good for the kids. Today's kids don't get enough credit.

2. Terrible idea on the part of the unions. Seriously, whose idea was this?I'm glad that Texas isn't unionized so that I don't have to pay money out of my pocket to people with such little pr sense.

3. Why is it that only the negative stories about teachers make the national news? Teachers giving up their free time to help the needy never made the news, only when they quit. Failing schools are always in the news with no mention of the countless exemplary ones. If it doesn't fit the narrative, the story never gets written (school related or not).

 

[Hornius Emeritus]

My dad was born in 1937. He's a retired Lt. Col who did two tours of duty in Vietnam. He told me that, in about 1951, HIS father said that HIS father (my dad's grandfather) told him in about 1915 that "today's generation" is going to hell in a handbasket. 100 years later, we're still going there, I guess.

My point: every generation thinks that it's generation is presiding over the end of the world and that the next generation is somehow going to screw things up forever, but the world goes on nevertheless.

 

[Larry T. Spider]

“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

Socrates

 

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[Horn6721]

it is a great thing that the kids stepped up and it shows they have likely had good parenting.

The really vile thing about the story is the union and its influence on teachers.

The contrast between thewe middle school students and the union teachers couldn't be greater.
This reminded me of the nurses union that seems to strike every other year in northern Calif, ignoring the patients.
Or maybe it reminds me of the Bakers unions at Hostess, Even the much larger and more powerful teamsters union understodd the consequences for all 18,500 employees and their families.

so on the one had here we have students who understood the right thing to do and we have teachers who didn't.
I hope the kids don't forget this lesson, a lesson the teachers would do well to learn