Opinion Stories from June 24, 2011 (Change date)
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Facts on teacher pensions, hoursJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - As I an educator in a Northwest suburb, I’d like to respond to Jim Mark’s recent entertaining yet slanted letter. First, I have never worked only nine months. I’ve alway...
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High-tech, high-touch: Back to the futureJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - While fetching my digital camera from the repair shop, I noted a bunch of clunky old film cameras and their flashes lining a back table. I thought no one used film anymo...
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Unions created middle classJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - Union membership has never been more than 30 percent of the workforce. What that 30 percent did was establish the middle class by raising wages, creating a 40-hour workw...
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Don’t compare teachers to veteransJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - In response to a June 19 letter ‘Teachers in trenches, too’: I do not want to debate the pros/cons of the plight of today’s teachers. But to compare them to Vietnam vete...
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