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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered." She's talking about TEACHERS.
http://www.mea.org/house-rams-through-bills-dissolve-school-districts-without-transferring-employeesAfter the chair of the House Education Committee referred to school employees as hogs, Republicans in the state House rammed through legislation late Thursday night that would dissolve the Buena Vista and Inkster school districts and leave employees in those dissolved districts without the right to a job in the receiving districts.
Under House Bill 4813 and House Bill 4815, the state superintendent and state treasurer could decide to dissolve a troubled school district if the district fails to submit a deficit reduction plan or is financially incapable of implementing such a plan; lacks the funds necessary to run a K-12 program for a year of required instructional hours; and has 2,500 students or fewer and lost at least 10 percent of its students over the course of a year.
School employees in the dissolved districts would not have rights to jobs in the receiving district even though their district dissolved through no fault of their own. The legislation initially protected school employees in the dissolved districts by providing them with the right of first refusal for jobs in the receiving district, but an amendment by state Rep. Ray Franz, R-Onekama, stripped away all employee protections.
Franzs amendment was fully supported by House Education Committee Chairwoman Lisa Lyons, R-Alto. In response to school employees concerns, Lyons said from the House floor: Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.
Under House Bill 4813 and House Bill 4815, the state superintendent and state treasurer could decide to dissolve a troubled school district if the district fails to submit a deficit reduction plan or is financially incapable of implementing such a plan; lacks the funds necessary to run a K-12 program for a year of required instructional hours; and has 2,500 students or fewer and lost at least 10 percent of its students over the course of a year.
School employees in the dissolved districts would not have rights to jobs in the receiving district even though their district dissolved through no fault of their own. The legislation initially protected school employees in the dissolved districts by providing them with the right of first refusal for jobs in the receiving district, but an amendment by state Rep. Ray Franz, R-Onekama, stripped away all employee protections.
Franzs amendment was fully supported by House Education Committee Chairwoman Lisa Lyons, R-Alto. In response to school employees concerns, Lyons said from the House floor: Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.
I know which pig I'd like to see slaughtered!
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"Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered." She's talking about TEACHERS. (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jun 2013
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Quantess
(27,630 posts)1. Pot meet kettle! That's called projection!
Trimming the fat sounds good if we're talking about the worthless house and senate.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)2. Her ALEC/Koch Bros check in in the mail....
What a shameless cow!!!
On edit - why can't I find this Congresswoman on Wikipedia?
Michigan House of Reps, not the US House. My bad...
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)3. Farmer refuses to feed the pigs
they kill and eat him.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)4. Unbelievable
People, please vote her out of office. Pronto.
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)5. ... and sheep get fleeced. nt
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)8. Thread win!
H2O Man
(73,692 posts)6. I've always liked
George Harrison's song "Piggies" on the double-lp "The Beatles" (aka the White Album). I'm quite sure that he wasn't referring to teachers.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)7. Her comments are best understood
within the context of her educational experience as a college graduate with a degree in agriculture and natural resources and as a 32 year old farm mom with 5 kids. In the mental health profession her comment might be diagnosed as projection.