This is what lawmakers in Kentucky have to walk through to get to work today.

[MelissaB]

Many school districts are closed today because teachers called in sick.

This is what lawmakers have to walk through to get to the Capitol today. Many teachers, many signs, one message: Find Funding First.

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[MelissaB]

1. If Gov Matt Bevin was looking for a little office quiet time, it aint happening today.

If @GovMattBevin was looking for a little office quiet time, it ain’t happening today.

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[MelissaB]

2. Vote them out! Teachers chanting at rally against passage of #SB151

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[sheshe2]

3. The People Rise

[Blue_Adept]

4. If only we put our energy into promoting this instead of continually talking about hate-filled folks

None of my teacher friends are from KY but are elsewhere in the country and have done their protesting previously as well. It's always great to see, especially if the communities rally behind them.

[hatrack]

6. We interrupt this broadcast to return to your regularly scheduled Roseanne Sealioning Festival

[tonyt53]

5. Two of my sisters and a few friends are there!

The GOP bastards added the pension language into a bill that had to do with sewage. Eleven GOP House members voted against it too.

[Hortensis]

7. Good for them! Teaching should be paid well

enough to compete with other industries for good, dynamic people.

[bronxiteforever]

8. Kick and recommend.

[Mountain Mule]

9. My Aunt was a teacher in Kentucky

and was paid chump change. It's no wonder Kentuckians vote the way they do - all the good teachers who could help them become informed voters leave the state.

[smirkymonkey]

10. Good for them!

These bastards only have as much power as we allow them to have. It's time that people everywhere start to realize that these lawmakers work for US! They are not our rulers!

[FakeNoose]

11. This is impressive. I hope the Governor is listening

The parents need to support the teachers for this to really work though. Sometimes the students will attend the rallies and marches to support their teachers, and then the parents wake up and start paying attention. We saw that happen in Pittsburgh a few years ago.

Good luck teachers!

[appalachiablue]

12. Go Kentucky! A Wave following the WV Teachers Walk Out- in KY, OK, AZ

Teacher Activism on 4 continents now, North & South America, Europe & Africa.

Compensate teachers who instruct students that are the future.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/28/teac-m28.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016203920

[calimary]

15. It's just a damn shame that our teachers have to go to these lengths

even just to be heard, much less win the salary increases they so desperately need and deserve. Frankly, I think a lot of these teachers deserve freakin' COMBAT PAY (looking at YOU, Parkland FL teachers!).

[appalachiablue]

19. It's been a long time coming with teachers that are underpaid

and undercompensated for years, esp. since the 2008 financial crash. A relative, like many hasn't had a raise in 10 years.

The KY teachers protest mounted last night after the legislature & GOP Gov. Bevins passed a sneaky "sewer bill" to rob them of their pensions, "Vote Them Out!" Combat Pay, no joke.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/30/1753224/-Kentucky-Teachers-Shut-Down-Schools-after-GOP-Slips-through-Bill-that-Robs-Teacher-Pensions

[iluvtennis]

13. Wonderful. The Parkland teens have started an uprising - so proud of them

[Initech]

14. We could stop electing these assholes and get people who do their jobs...

Instead of praying to make the problems go away and a lot of this crap might get solved. But we don't have time for rational solutions!

[Blue_true]

18. It is about radical solutions.

Even if the details of how to make them work are sketchy. Drop everything and chase to radical solutions, or else!!!!! (The or else!!!!! was sarcasm).

[Fritz Walter]

16. One quick question

What kind of pension program do legislators and governors have in Kentucky?

My brother — who devoted his career as a first-responder in KY — mentioned that these elected hogs at the public trough are covered by a completely separate pension plan.

Was there any language in the railroaded legislation about combining theirs to teachers and other civil servants? Yeah, I thought not!

Admins: when are we going to get a smilie with a pitchfork or torch?

[BigmanPigman]

17. Good for them...

Teacher would make more babysitting than teaching.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/21/948224/-

[appalachiablue]

20. That's a good DK post with comments about many teacher issues, tx.

[BigmanPigman]

21. It is 7 years old which means that it is NOT getting any better

for teachers only worse! Teachers must RESIST!

[appalachiablue]

22. Saw that. The lousy conditions are still in place so Teachers Must Speak Out!

[dlk]

23. The Citizens the Lawmakers Work for are Speaking Out

Republican lawmakers seem to be completely lacking in the understanding of whom they actually work for--it's not the lobbyists who line their pockets. A wake-up call for them is long overdue.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. Our daughter was there and we're very proud of her!

She also pays lots out of her own pocket every year for needed supplies and had to do a DonorsChoose.org funding drive last year to get some books she needed.

Hopefully, I'll get to see her today and hear of her experiences on Friday.....

America had best change our priorities and thinking on education if we truly want to become great again.