Monday, March 08, 2004

Marysville Teacher Strike Update

Yeah, we're back to that subject.

If all went well tonight, the woman who had a huge role in causing the strike is now officially no longer part of the district, despite the best efforts of the old school board to make sure she stayed on to cause more trouble (including a lame duck vote after three of them had been voted out of office). Superintendent Linda Whitehead is finally gone. And the district is well rid of her. Now if we can only get rid of the anti-union anti-teacher jerk who's still on the school board acting all put out now that he no longer has power. On the other hand, maybe it would be best to keep him around, he makes for good comic relief.

The teachers are still waiting for their contract, but there is a strong belief that now that the jokers who hate teachers are gone a contract will come out of this that is fair and actually shows some respect for someone other than the administration. Speaking of which, the administration building is apparently not a joyful place right now, as it's expected that some of the extremely overpaid administrators will soon be moving on, whether they like it or not.

Maybe now that Linda Whitehead is gone, she can take her expensive mouthpiece Judy Parker with her. Since Whitehead refuses to talk for herself, maybe she can hire Judy to speak for her wherever she goes, using some of the $340,000 she took from the kids of Marysville.

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