Pathetic Performance By Teachers At Rally

The teachers union in Las Vegas, the CCEA, tried to have a rally and only 500 people showed up and not all were school employees.
From the Las Vegas Sun: About 500 union members marched from Cashman Field to the Grant Sawyer State Office Building on Saturday afternoon while shouting "Save our schools" and "Protect education."
They were led by union organizers who carried a handmade, pine coffin that contained more than 500 letters written to Gov. Brian Sandoval in opposition to his proposed budget cuts to education. Officials planned to deliver the letters to the governor in Carson City.
The march came at the close of a two-hour rally in the Cashman Field parking lot, where state and local Democratic leaders and union activists spoke in opposition to the proposed cuts, which could result in the loss of $400 million from the Clark County School District and an estimated 2,500 jobs.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/apr/30/hundreds-gather-cashman-field-rally-against-educat/
There are about 20,000 employees in the Clark County Schools and 500 is all they can get? Well, not even 500. They also had union members from the SEIU and other unions not affiliated with CCSD or CCEA.
As I reported on this march a couple days ago, this is not about education but about union power. Having only 500 people come out for the rally pretty much shows that the CCEA doesn't have the support of it's teachers or the public.

Here's a hint to the CCEA and CCSD administrators- when you cut out the fat in the CCSD budget, then you will get more support.
If you stop complaining about how things are, when out in the real world, where things are a whole lot tougher in the private sector, people will take you more seriously.
But right now, the public is not taking us teachers, the teachers union and the CCSD administration because they see all the BS that is going on.
Finally, the media has been playing up the rallies of teachers, parents and students and quite frankly, the rallies have been pathetic. Small in numbers and short on substance. That's not how you impress people.