Who Exactly Are The Children And Who Are The Adults?

Yesterday, they day the CCSD administration announced layoffs of about 1000 teachers, the CCSD school board had a meeting and, according to media accounts, it was worse than being in a 1 first grade classroom with 40 children hyped up on sugar and Red Bull.
From the Las Vegas Sun:   On Wednesday night, the School Board unanimously adopted a fiscal 2013 budget that bridges a $64 million shortfall with 1,015 teacher layoffs.
At a tense meeting interrupted several times by raucous teachers union members and parents, district officials and School Board members outlined a grim financial outlook.
Depressed property values due to the sustained economic downturn have led to decreased tax revenues to fund public education, officials said. The impending layoffs are the consequence of continued budget cuts and a complete lack of compromise between the cash-strapped district and its teachers union — and it all comes at a cost to students.As a result of the layoffs, average class sizes are expected in the mid-30s in the upper elementary, middle and high school classes. With more students, existing teachers will be saddled with more work. With fewer teachers, students will have to fight harder to receive individualized attention in class.
"It's a harsh yet undeniable reality," Clark County Schools Superintendent Dwight Jones said. "When 90 percent of the budget is salary and benefits, it's difficult to find cuts."...
After union President Ruben Murillo made his public comments — arguing that the district has the resources to avert teacher layoffs — union members began to chant: "Save our teachers! Save our schools!"
School Board members — who had repeatedly issued warnings to rowdy teachers — suddenly recessed the meeting, and one by one walked out in protest. They returned about five minutes later....
Others echoed her sentiments, notably members of the administrators union, which settled with the district on concessions. The administrators, support staff and police unions all made concessions, said Stephen Augspurger, the executive director of the Clark County Association of School Administrators and Professional-Technical Employees.
"This was your choice," Augspurger told the teachers union. "This consequence was known beforehand … It was predictable and inevitable."
In response, a number of teachers union members turned their backs and booed Augspurger. Some coughed repeatedly, one muttering an expletive under his breath.
During a budget presentation later in the meeting, Teresa Sandoval-Salazer — a parent who organized a protest at Vegas Verdes Elementary School last week over budget cuts — yelled out, "I'm very ashamed of you."
Union members began to cheer. Young tried to bring the meeting back to order. Teachers began to leave, chanting "We'll remember in November." (School Board members Erin Cranor, Chris Garvey, Deanna Wright and John Cole are up for re-election.)  http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/16/unruly-teachers-union-members-cause-scene-cant-det/
So, once again, are teachers professionals or union trades people like the Culinary Union and the UFCW who use disruption to try to get their way?
But the School Board was also bone headed:
School Board members — who had repeatedly issued warnings to rowdy teachers — suddenly recessed the meeting, and one by one walked out in protest. They returned about five minutes later.
"What we don't appreciate is you disrupting our meeting," a visibly angry School Board President Linda Young said, chastising the teachers by comparing them to unruly schoolchildren. "We want you to model the kind of behavior you would want for your kids."
Whose meeting was it?  Was it the School board's or the public's meeting.  I didn't know that Linda Young owned the School Board meetings?
So, in tho end, the union was trying to save face and the school board was trying to send a message and both looked like idiots, especially the union members.