Friday, July 14, 2006

Was this even covered in the local press?

Yesterday there was to be a rally, a "gathering" of disgruntled eachers who seem to care more about themselves and their union than educating the children who attend Catholic schools. I have as yet been unable to find any coverage of this important development:

Rally for Catholic School Teachers

The Catholic Center
4445 Lindell

Thursday, July 13
10 AM

This event is sponsored by the Catholic elementary school teacher's union, which has been denied collective bargaining status by Archbishop Burke.

The purpose of this July 13 rally is to continue to highlight the need that elementary educators have for PROTECTION and that RECOGNITION of ACEE would begin the process of providing that protection.

At our earlier rally on June 22, we delivered to Archbishop Burke a letter requesting that he courageously assume a positive leadership role and agree to meet with representatives of ACEE to resolve the stand-off position he has taken with ACEE.

The Association of Catholic Elementary Educators (ACEE) has ties to a group which deceptively refers to itself as "Catholic" Action Network (CAN), and which has repeatedly taken positions completely at odds with Catholic teachings. CAN has a posting enumerating what this group of teachers want:

CAN asks you to Support the Association of Catholic Elementary Educators (ACEE) in its campaign to:

1) increase respect for the role of educators

2) maintain a vibrant, high quality catholic education system in St. Louis

3) seek social and economic justice for elementary educators in accordance with Catholic teaching

4) seek recognition as the colective bargaining agent for elementary educators in the Archdiocese (Source)

Please note that I have not changed any words or the spelling of anything above. Notice also that there is no emphasis given at all to the children who should be the main concern of teachers. For what reason are these people teachers if not to educate children? It certainly seems like there are a number of problems with the group, especially since it seems that its priorities are so problematic.

If anyone has pictures of this lovely affair or knows of any news coverage of it, please let me know. I'd like to see how it was covered in the local press.

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