Teachers Over the Top and Out of Touch

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Newsday is Biased":

Syosset teachers agreeing to pay more for health care than they have under their last contract is still something that happened in their district. Same for them having less sick days. And this is worthy of being printed in Newsday since union workers don't usually give up any benefit they have already bargained for.

There is some school district out there whose teachers are getting less sick days than Plainview and paying more for health care than Plainview.

You can't compare apples to oranges.

There are no givebacks in benefits being asked in Plainview, only a raise that the taxpayers can ill-afford in a bad economy and the union feels is not enough. Newsday got that right.

The same Newsday article reported that teachers in the K Center didn't hold Thanksgiving feasts like they have in the past. The PTA held something after school for the kids. There was no mention of any other district eliminating traditions during their negotiations or as a result of givebacks.

This article shows Plainview teachers to be over the top and taking unreasonable actions. This article supports the Board of Ed's agenda to hold fast to their negotiation offering by showing that compared to other Long Island school districts, ours is out of touch with reality.