Quote Originally Posted by Honky Tonk View Post
VERY bright post. Maybe the teachers will also realize getting themselves into a $715 mil debt wasn't so bright either.
What kind of revisionist BS is this? How did the teachers get $715 million in debt? As far as I can tell, that was boards and administrators, including a couple of generations of Lansing's emergency "managers".

In fact, the DFT teachers did what almost no other union in the country has ever done, and actually loaned their employer, DPS, money from their own pockets to keep operating [[at $9,000 per teacher), in addition to taking a 10% pay cut. Trying to blame the teachers for this deficit, and the abysmal failure of the state to properly address the fiscal situation and the physical state of the schools for the benefit of actual students and teachers alike, is really revolting and below the belt.