The teachers, students, and parents all get it, cramming 40 kids into a class with no heat or AC is a recipe for failure. The only ones that's don't get this are school administrators.

PPS and state of Oregon need to use the money they have more efficiently. While I do not like the Union leadership at all, Oregon has some of the highest taxes in the country yet we can't pay teachers enough to live in our overpriced region. Oregon needs to to spend the money it has more efficiently. If we are going to pay such high taxes, we should be paying our teachers six figure salaries that they are required to live in the Portland area and class sizes should be under 25 students. Students should have access to electives, art classes, STEM/CTE, AP, duel credit and more. Yet with all the money our state and PPS have they do not. I hope this strike is a wake-up call to the legislature, PPS, and city of Portland but it is unlikely. And sadly the Union leadership supports the same politicians that raise taxes and waste our money and they act surprised when the consequences of doing so manifest.

@djackson4605

9 ай бұрын

Unions are a scam. Any notions you have will reach clarity a lot faster once you come to terms with that fact.

There should not be any for profit teacher union allowed to dictate collective bargaining, period. Better states do not give teacher unions this sort of anti-education, anti-kid power.

If public schools operated in the free market instead of as a government monopoly, I could sympathize with a strike, but this is pathetic and taxpayers have to foot the bill! School choice, could solve this problem pretty quickly. Why don’t they keep their $82,000 a year with summers off, stop whining, and go back to work!!!

@SaintSanic

9 ай бұрын

Some of them make 41k a year, and it is a free market. Good teachers are leaving the district for ones with better class sizes, pay and amenities. It's a problem.

If the teachers aren’t on strike, the kids are walking out for whatever issue is important that week. If that’s not happening, the school is closed due to the pandemic, when that’s not the case, there’s a riot or protest. The lack of ability for people to simply show up where they are supposed to be, and simply do what it is they are supposed to do in Portland is baffling.

Sad thing is that are just pricing themselves out of a job.

Portland teachers have walked away from kids for 3 years now