(I'll never forget when I tried to transport a balloon bouquet to a church. There are many places to get balloon bouquets and some places deliver. Have children send letters or notes, as well as Valentine cards, especially to teachers, grandparents, or neighbors. Some of the ideas are especially nice for Valentines because they're suggestions for things your children can do for neighbors, teachers, or friends. We visited in southern Utah last weekend and, as usual, Jane gave me many ideas for my column. I love holidays, but Valentines Day is one of my favorite special occasions. But the sky was very colorful for a while.) love or like. I ended up with one balloon out of the dozen I'd purchased. Wow! Can you picture me trying to drive and reaching to keep balloons from flying out the windows. Article didn't capture spirit of the Irish Some great ideas for your Valentine you better believe it - This is supposed to be a Valentines column one about hearts and flowers, Cupid lets loose with his arrows today, so 111 play cupid with a bunch of ideas for those you in Highland, end I forgot to roll up my car windows. No one can win when you are bargaining with such a precious and emotionally-loade- d product For that very reason, a teacher's strike over educational funding would create nothing but ill will for educators with that most fickle of employer the American public. The compelling reason to forge an agreement comes not from company profits, but from school chidren's welfare. They just send kids home and put a temporary slowdown on the process of getting educated. By walking out, teachers don't hamper production of goods or cut the company's income. However, educators don't negotiate with company management, but with elected officials people the public has chosen to represent the interests of everyone. The strike cripples a company economically, and brings management and labor to the negotiating table in an effort to resolve the issues. In the second place, strike tactics are most effective when a specific group is negotiating for specific concessions. By lea vi ng their classrooms, teachers would generate a termendous amount of ill will with the general population of the state. And at this point, that's about all a teacher's strike is likely to or strike thetic to labor unions or their tactics and a walk-ois one of the most effective, and unpopular.of these tactics. But widening the gap between our teachers and our state's population is hardly an effective way to improve education in our state. Beyond any doubt, Utah needs to spend more money if its schools are to keep pace with the growing needs of our children. Any d attempt to raise additional revenues in this state could be disasterous. And they must work within the resources they now have. Despite budget surpluses, there still isn't enough money to go around after years of scrimping on so many needed public services. Finally, our legislature has reached its limit as to how much money will be available to spend for anything next year. A walkout could easily be and a betrayal of the viewed as a violation of those contracts to generate that type of public trust Utah's teachers don't need ' negative public image. In the first place, Utah residents as a whole are not sympa In addition, teachers and other school personnel are currently serving under the terms ofa contract negotiated and approved by teachers before the school year began. But there are several reasons why a strike will do the teachers' cause more harm than good. The lack of adequate compensation has created very strong emotions among our educators who are feeling seriously unapA walk-ou- t preciated and under-paiby Utah's teachers would be an obvious result of this growing discontent an attempt to send a serious message to the lawmakers and residents of the state who, it might seem, still don't understand just how larger-than-averag- e d. There are a lot of children in our schools, and an inadequate tax base to fund education as we would like it to be funded. Few will disagree that education in Utah is overpopulated and underfunded a legacy of our committment to sized families. Comment Free Press - Wednesday, Febru Strike would hurt, not help, cause of Utah education This Friday, those Utah teachers who are members of the Utah Education Association will decide whether or not to strike as a means of urging our state legislature and governor to set aside more money for education particularly for better salaries for school employees.
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