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No child deserves a scab

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Ken Piros

Community Manager, Ohio

No child deserves a scab

Scab = "Streikbrecher"
Thanks Bernd for the translation

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/286984/35/Strongsville-teachers-strike-brings-big-reaction

Seems mob mentality wins out over education and job title.

A teacher was arrest yesterday for Disorderly Conduct.

I like the signs in this image. The one about not believing everything you hear. By law both the school district and the teachers union must agree to release to the public the details about what they are negotiating on. The school district has agreed but the teachers union will not agree to release the detail. If you don't release the details than certainly there will be rumors and speculation.

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Silvana W. 27/03/2013 0:18
Well..Certainly every country has its rules. Discuss this topic I think, I would be even more confusing.. I see your documentary work. I think, I like you grasp what is happening on the street about this theme and the result seems very interesting*
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Carlo.Pollaci 16/03/2013 21:06
In tutto il mondo la vita degli insegnanti è sempre più dura.
Ottima foto di denuncia sociale.
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Jörg Klüber 14/03/2013 20:03
A great doc!
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Bernard.Backpacker 12/03/2013 20:27
a good document, very well taken
regards, BB
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Dr. Labude 12/03/2013 17:41
I'm obviously not too much involved in the conflict. Thus, the picture doesn't mean too much to me as a document. But I like it lot as an image. Striking graphics!
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Harold Thompson 08/03/2013 18:07
Strong documentary scene :-)) Harold
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BGW-photo 08/03/2013 16:05
good doku, fro sure ..!

my first reaction was about the word "scab" - I know the German translation as "Halunke" ... but later on, I found a better suitable one regarding the strike: "Streikbrecher" ...

kind of adding knowledge too, Ken ;-))

cheers from Bernd
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Ken Piros 08/03/2013 12:32
Janos,
It is a very confusing time for everyone. I too think the teachers are well compensated with great benefits. And I also agree that being a teacher is a hard job. A lot of kids, not all but a lot don't listen to the teachers, don't want to learn. It is hard to keep them from disrupting the class. If the teachers tries to discipline the kids the parents want to sue. The inner city is extremely challenging.

From what I am hearing only half the teachers wanted to strike the other half wanted to stay in school and keep talking to work out the differences. Put the majority won the vote so they have to walk the line. It seems like the hardline strikers are making the news and making the teachers look bad. There was a second arrest yesterday with a teacher aiming their car at a bunch of replacement teachers and almost hitting them.

I am conflicted between my point of view on the strike and just showing what is happening and letting the viewer decide. Staying fair and impartial is hard in journalism and I think that maybe I am writing too much of my opinion under the images.

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Sue Thompson 08/03/2013 10:12
The mob mentallity is often the only way to make others.......like governmental leaders......listen. They live in their ivory towers, overpaid and overeducated so that they have no idea how the lower echellons exist.....nor do they seem to care. Having said that......do strikes really work ? I think not.

An excellent docu capture of these workers telling of their plight and displeasure.

:))
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Janos Gardonyi 08/03/2013 4:03
if you are like me and know that teachers are paid well, retire early on full pension, but in today's difficult economic times have the nerve to demand more, I think you are sending out confusing messages with even more confusing and ambivalent comments. Our European friends I don't think realize the problems in America or Canada. Here education has deteriorated to such extent that kids can't spell even at University level, can't add 2 numbers together and if you show them a map of Africa 90% doesn't know what it is. More money for teachers??
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Lawson McCulloch 07/03/2013 20:29
A fine shot Ken, and a true saying-Don't believe evrything you hear.
best wishes,
Lawson
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uhunachdemwaldbrand 07/03/2013 16:52
great cinema ken !
chapeau !
lg
christian
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s. sabine krause 07/03/2013 15:39
mob mentality? hm, i guess that goes for the reactions on the wkyc facebook page, too! where does all that aggression come from? i agree with leonid on the importance of good teachers! and teaching is such a hard job these days… a great interesting documentary shot of the little group rallying in the cold! greetings, sabine.
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BRYAN CRUTE 07/03/2013 13:04
I think you can cream for children's scabs now :-))
Good documentary shot again Ken

Regards
Bryan
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Brigitte Lucke 07/03/2013 12:57
Same here. A corrupt state doesn't need education. Thanks for sharing.
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