The union representing teachers in Harford County Public Schools plans a “grade-in” protest over school funding at a county council meeting set for Tuesday, October 1.
Ryan Burbey, president of the Harford County Education Association sent an email to members last week urging teachers to grade student work while they attend the council meeting and to speak out during the public comment period. The protest is planned, according to the email, to “call attention to the problems which have arisen in our schools due to the lack of funding.”
The email goes on to warn union members:
“Anti-public education members of the community have recently indicated in public comments that they feel, ‘Things are fine’ and HCPS has sufficient funding. If we allow these falsehoods to go unchecked, they will be accepted by the council and other community members as truthful.”
Some teachers in Harford County Public Schools have been working to rule since the end of last school year, protesting a lack of salary increases in four of the past five years.
Burbey did not immediately respond to inquiries from The Dagger about the “grade-in”. However, the protest is apparently the first of many actions planned this year, according to the email: “This year, we must be prepared to act like never before. We must show the strength of our numbers and the power of our cause. I need you help to make a change. I am only one voice. Together we are thousands.”
Way to go Commissar Burbey. You again further the peoples cause as we march to a glorious peoples revolution. Take all of the money from the Capitalists, and continue to further the Communist’s Cause!!!
Everyone at the protest should wear red armbands as a symbol of their disgust for HCPS. Maybe also carry red notebooks (small, so they’ll fit in a shirt pocket next to their hearts) full of Mr Burbey’s ranting so they know the party line.
We removed our armbands and traded them in for suits we when started to fly the “progressive” banner. We have re-branded the peoples revolution. Perhaps we could have a throw back Friday.
lol…these two yahoos just reply back and forth to each other. It’s awesome how the simple minded can be entertained.
You laugh, but during the Ohio teachers’ strike a few years ago, the protestors laid seige to the capitol while wearing red shirts. They’d forgotten their history lessons in that blue is the traditional color of unions.
Doesn’t grading papers at the meeting violate the work to rule protest? It is after hours…
Ha!!! Excellent point!
Work to rule, huh?
Don’t forget to raise your right arm toward the horizon with your fingers straight as you salute Der Fuhrer
What about the privacy of the students’ paper that Mr. Burbey’s grading? Oh, I almost forgot, it’s all about the kids. What about parent-teacher conferences after school? Is the main office going to schedule then the teachers not show up? Can I get a heads up before I waste some more of my time?
Ya’ll will sure show them at the county council meeting!!!!! LOL!!
Everyone will be laughing at any “educator” who is doing this because, they are the biggest hypocrites who can’t even abide by their own “once I clock out, I’m not doing anymore work”
Look if you dont like it leave!
Teachers that do this are going to look cartoonish. This seems like a cheap PR stunt that will accomplish nothing and may further erode the professionalism that the public expects from its underpaid and undervalued teachers. I sympathize with the plight of teachers in this County, but a grade-in is not the way to go.
Hey, Burbey, instead of this childish nonsense where you look less mature than most of the kids in the school system, why aren’t you and every other person associated with education hammering on Der Governor’s door demanding the money from gambling that he allowed every voter in Maryland to THINK would be ADDED to education? Why aren’t you on every local station and in every paper calling him out on his duplicity? No, you just let him redirect millions while you squabble over table scraps.
Amazed, He can’t criticize the governor. Remember, the unions supported O’Malley so O’Malley can’t do anything wrong.
Anyway, Martin promised Ryan that he would still respect him in the morning.
Wow, only 13 comments? Come on haters, how’d that “grade in” turn out?
“Ryan Burbey, president of the Harford County Education Association sent an email to members last week urging teachers to grade student work while they attend the council meeting and to speak out during the public comment period.”
LOL Come on guy, how is this not work to rule?
At first we felt sorry, now, we just laugh. What’s the next goofy ass mass email PR stunt you’re going to pull, man?