Teacher's salaries

[kddani]

Originally posted by AXiD670

Sure, it's probably not like that everywhere, but it just surprises me to hear about teacher's unions having such "power." (of course, it's also surprising to hear about teaching salaries higher than $50,000.)

Also, how can these teachers strike? I thought it was illegal for teachers to strike.

The teacher's union just has a huge amount of power here, as I'm learning that's certainly not commonplace elsewhere.

It's not illegal for them to strike (not sure if this is state or federal governed, I don't know much about education law), but I think they can only strike for so long before they have to return to work. But it's still at least a couple weeks. And all the time has to be made up. Which means some schools end up going to the end of June or even into July, and having almost no breaks