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Teachers always show up

  • 05-03-2010
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Column by Gail Collins/New York Times

Sometimes, in election season, I have the feeling that the entire audience at political events is made up of teachers. O.K., maybe an exaggeration. Democratic political events. And you do see people from other unions, although, unlike the teachers, they tend to come in large buses and wear identical T-shirts. And there will be students, as long as the event in question takes place in a university gymnasium. But the teachers — good citizens who are always worried about what the government will do to them next — win the political participation prize. (more...)

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