JG Excerpt:...and lost.
While negotiations have been behind closed doors, teachers have been applying public pressure for months.
True, but not until after the Janesville Gazette propaganda machine pummeled the teachers with anonymous sources in their weekly "news" articles, fabricated fictional characters to do their editorial anti-union and anti-benefits talking for them, and generally just knocked the snot out of any public support the teachers did have. The Gazette did this for nearly two years!! There was just no way the teachers union or any community organization could overcome such repeatedly negative and adverse publicity. The teachers finally woke up and began to protest the misinformation directed their way with pickets and a Web Site only a couple of months ago, but the damage has already been done.
This should be another bitter lesson in a long line of bitter lessons for everyone in Janesville including the entire Rock County area. Next on the Gazette's hit list will probably be the Rock County Board. The newspaper has been dropping test-bombs for downsizing representation and centralizing local power once again, after being oddly quiet on the subject for the past year.
If you think this is all joke, it probably is. So long as we understand, the jokes gonna be on us. The Gazette is playing for keeps.
2 comments:
It hasn't been ratified yet.
I am a teacher and I say QEO us.
Why is the district so unwilling to be QEO'ed?
Is it because they will have to open their books?
You will see a slow trickle of smart young teachers away from Janesville. The word will be out. JSD is a two-year stepping stone to better districts that value teachers.
What happens to property values in communities that have disreputable schools?
The School Board has stirred up the ignorance of and resentment toward professionals in this community.
Thank you Rock Netroots for getting the word out.
Other school districts without contracts in Wisconsin and Illinois (I think Waukegan is one) are watching Janesville closely to see where education is headed.
The school board played up the surplus to the taxpayer instead of for education and drove the nails in the coffin with the Gazette's hammer. I began writing about this as early as September, 2006.
I appreciate your comments. Thanks.
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