Providence Sending Dismissal Notices to All of its 1,926 Teachers


March 5th, 2011


If anyone believes the liberal media whenever it tries to push the idea that a recovery is underway, they should ask themselves: Why is Providence sending dismissal notices to all its teachers?

The Providence Journal reports: “The [Providence, Rhode Island] school district plans to send out dismissal notices to every one of its 1,926 teachers, an unprecedented move that has union leaders up in arms. In a letter sent to all teachers Tuesday, Supt. Tom Brady wrote that the Providence School Board on Thursday will vote on a resolution to dismiss every teacher, effective the last day of school. In an e-mail sent to all teachers and School Department staff, Brady said, ‘We are forced to take this precautionary action by the March 1 deadline given the dire budget outline for the 2011-2012 school year in which we are projecting a near $40 million deficit for the district,’ Brady wrote.”

Where the devil has all this money for schools been going for the past 30 years? I thought legalized state lotteries were supposed to solve these problems, not to mention the yearly extortion, known as property taxes? I know, in a general way, where the money has gone. It’s gone to pay interest on previous borrowing into the hands of Jewish bankers, and it’s also going to grossly overpaid and incompetent teachers from the NEA, an adjunct of the Democrat party, but still, how did this happen? How did these idiots allow things to fall apart this badly?

The article notes “Since the full extent of the potential cuts to the school budget have yet to be determined, issuing a dismissal letter to all teachers was necessary to give the mayor, the School Board and the district maximum flexibility to consider every cost savings option, including reductions in staff. State law requires that teachers be notified about potential changes to their employment status by March 1.”

What they’ve done is formally send notices to fire all of them, so they can ultimately fire as many as necessary. The unions in California require months of advance notice before a teacher can be fired. Another possible reason is that they are trying to panic the public into voting some horrendous tax increase on themselves.
Then the question becomes, as short on teachers as they will be, how many schools will Providence have to close? Detroit is closing half of its public schools.

How many of the remaining students in the Providence city schools are White? In other words, are forty years of Democrat policies doing any actual harm to White kids yet? In Detroit it doesn’t matter since the student body is virtually all black. How much actual damage will this do?

Oh by the way–Providence is a “sanctuary city” for illegal aliens. So how many of those who suffer from Democrat policies shouldn’t be here at all, in the first place?