The reason for this is that people will not want to attend their “schools” and the potential students have other options. OUSD doesn’t have to lose all the students, just enough to tip them over the cliff. Think of it as a downward spiral (death spiral). Like the post office.

Let the unions strike. their members are lucky they still have jobs. Later on they won’t.

Start looking for the various municipalities to “freeze” their pension plans. They’ll resort to this when the layoffs and service cuts are no longer easy to take. It’s coming, at your next contract expiration date.

Brave New World

How many labor unions do you know negotiated a raise in California last year? How many teachers unions even tried? How many demand a benefits package that the Democratic Obama administration calls a “Cadillac plan?” How many unions went on strike over a management offer that included no cut in pay and covering increases in the cost of health benefits?

Teaching is a hard job. Maybe it does force some into activities that lead to “altered realities.” I don’t know why there is this alternative reality, just that it in fact, is.

It’s a shame given the level of combined effort necessary to deal with the truly challenging task before their members. The world is changing, their membership is changing, and still they persist. It’s sad really.

God save the children from this incessant dysfunction in OUSD. It’s hard to watch and I know many have tuned out and moved on. That’s a shame too.