Interesting that Zulkowski believes the long term negative impact of restructuring the salary schedule outweighs the short-term benefit to the district of balancing the budget. How about the long-term impact of the negative feelings taxpayers will have against the union? Guess that doesn’t matter – at least not until a strike is required to get what the union will demand in the next contract. Nobody is asking for restructuring of the salary schedule – just perhaps a delay in accepting a raise for the coming year. It’s happened to many of the rest of us and to whine that spouses of teachers have lost jobs – do they really believe that only they are affected?

We’re all in this like it or not. Teachers simply cannot make demands on the public and expect them to cave. Striking needs to be illegal. The burden of cuts needs to be shared. If I were to walk off my job, I’d be fired. There are plenty of good unemployed teachers. There is nobody today who can’t be replaced. The KEA apparently doesn’t get that.