Wednesday March 2
This Inquiring Mind Wants to Know...
Okay enough with all the union workers' talk about collective bargaining. Kids must be hearing this phrase too. What if it were to seep into their foggy, multi-tasking, texting addicted psyches. What if they were to focus upon one outrageous idea-an idea so terrifying, forget Wisconsin! The entire adult population would be at risk! ??
This Inquiring Mind Wants to Know what would happen if kids unionized and had collective bargaining? Imagine the possibilities. Not enough recess? Organize a schoolyard sit in; too much homework? Demand added vacation time. Bad grades? March against the teacher-oh wait, can’t do that one-teachers have a union too! But wait, there are more students than teachers and teachers can’t teach without students, so better to just boycott classes, or better still go into
(so the police cannot find them) until teachers agree to higher marks! Phew! Won that one.??
Of course collective bargaining might not go so easy on the home front. There is no stronger federation than the UFM!! United Federation of Moms! We have ultimate collecting bargaining power! We can go into
too! At some spa! And refuse to drive, do laundry or cook! No car pooling! No school clothes! No food! ??
But let's hope our kids are too busy instant messaging to get with the collective bargaining program. Do we Moms really want to go into
and risk losing the most important job we were given-that of parenting-just to make a point? Hmm.
Margo@MomOpinionMatters.Com
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