CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police are trying to figure out who has left animal carcasses near the picket line of striking teachers in one of western Pennsylvania’s most affluent school districts.
The last animal found, on Tuesday, was a deer spray-painted blue with the initials “PT”.
Striking Peters Township School District teachers have been wearing blue T-shirts while picketing and elsewhere as a sign of solidarity.
Last week, officials say a dead squirrel was thrown from a passing vehicle and a raccoon carcass was left hanging from a nearby road sign.
Nearly 300 teachers have been on strike since Oct. 28, and talks with the school board have been rancorous.
School has been canceled until Nov. 27. That’s the longest the teachers can strike while still guaranteeing students receive the minimum class days required by law.
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In other words, some animal killer who hates paying taxes thinks they can intimidate people who are just trying to stand up for themselves in a country where people by and large have given up doing that.
However one might come down on the reasonableness of their demands, they have every right to express them and fight for them. But fascism is pervasive, and those who permit themselves to be exploited without union representation have been taught to resent those who haven’t been so willingly misled.
TPM:
Ah, Pennsylvania, the state of my birth and youth.
So glad I left.
Come back! We need you!