Fire them today

     When teachers call in sick to go to a protest, or for any reason other than actually being sick,  they should be fired.  The teacher is defrauding and stealing from the taxpayers, and cheating their students. 

      When a teacher calls in "sick" the school district has to hire a substitute teacher and pay the teacher salary plus benefits.  This is fraud and theft.  It is fraud and theft of the taxpayers who are hiring them to teach, not to go to protests, but mostly they are defrauding and stealing from their students who rely on those teachers to be in the classroom everyday. 

     Research has show that the most important factor in student learning is the quality of the teacher in the classroom   A substitute is not an adequate replacement for a teacher. Any parent knows that when they ask their children what they did at school that day, sometimes the answer is "We had a sub."  That means; we didn't learn anything.  A sub can follow the lesson plan, but most kids know they are not held accountable for that day's learning. 
     
    How about a lesson in responsibility from the school district and the Union and calling all of these teachers up on disciplinary charges for theft.  These children will never get these days of learning back and that is the real shame in all of this.
  

Reference:  http://www.businessinsider.com/wisconsin-teacher-strike-2011-2